Installing Mellanox Ofed; Installation Script - Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx Series User Manual

a. Scroll down to the Download wizard, and click the Download tab.
b. Choose your relevant package depending on your host operating system.
c. Click the desired ISO/tgzpackage.
d. To obtain the download link, accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).
3. Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image. Run the following
command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.
md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso

Installing Mellanox OFED

Installation Script

The installation script,
• Discovers the currently installed kernel
• Uninstalls any software stacks that are part of the standard operating system distribution or
another vendor's commercial stack
• Installs the MLNX_OFED_LINUX binary RPMs (if they are available for the current kernel)
• Identifies the currently installed Mellanox network adapters and automatically upgrades the
firmware.
Note: The firmware will not be updated if you run the install script with the '--without-fw-
update' option.
Note: If you wish to perform a firmware upgrade using customized FW binaries, you can provide
a path to the folder that contains the FW binary files, by running
option, the FW version embedded in the MLNX_OFED package will be ignored. Example:
./mlnxofedinstall --fw-image-dir /tmp/my_fw_bin_files
Usage
./mnt/mlnxofedinstall [OPTIONS]
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Pre-existing configuration files will be saved with the extension ".conf.rpmsave".
The installation script removes all previously installed Mellanox OFED packages and re-installs from
scratch. You will be prompted to acknowledge the deletion of the old packages.
• If you need to install Mellanox OFED on an entire (homogeneous) cluster, a common strategy is
to mount the ISO image on one of the cluster nodes and then copy it to a shared file system such
as NFS. To install on all the cluster nodes, use cluster-aware tools (such as pdsh).
• If your kernel version does not match with any of the offered pre-built RPMs, you can add your
kernel version by using the "mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh" script located inside the
MLNX_OFED package.
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On Redhat and SLES distributions with errata kernel installed there is no need to use
the mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh script. The regular installation can be performed and
weak updates mechanism will create symbolic links to the MLNX_OFED kernel
modules.
, performs the following:
mlnxofedinstall
. Using this
--fw-image-dir
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