If the machine has a standard NVIDIA® card with an older firmware version, the firmware will be automatically updated as part of the NVIDIA® WinOF-2
package installation. For information on how to upgrade firmware manually, please refer to
If the machine has a DDA (pass through) facility, firmware update is supported only in the Host. Therefore, to update the firmware, the following must be
performed:
1.
Return the network adapters to the Host.
2.
Update the firmware according to the steps in
3.
Attach the adapters back to VM with the DDA tools.
VMware Driver Installation
This section describes VMware Driver Installation.
Software Requirements
Requirement
Platforms
Operating System
Installer Privileges
/v" SKIPUNSUPPORTEDDEVCHECK=1"
the MFT User
Manual.
A server platform with an adapter card based on ConnectX®-6 (InfiniBand/EN) (firmware: fw-ConnectX6)
ESXi 6.5
The installation requires administrator privileges on the target machine.