Installing Mellanox Native Esxi Driver For Vmware Vsphere; Removing Earlier Mellanox Drivers; Firmware Programming - Mellanox Technologies ConnectX-4 Lx User Manual

4.3.2 Installing Mellanox NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere

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Please uninstall all previous Mellanox driver packages prior to installing the new version. See

Removing Earlier Mellanox Drivers

To install the driver:
a. Log into the ESXi server with root permissions.
b. Install the driver.
#> esxcli software vib install –d <path>/<bundle_file>
Example:
#> esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/MLNX-NATIVE-ESX-ConnectX-6-5_4.
16.8.8-10EM-650.0.0.4240417.zipesxcli
c. Reboot the machine.
d. Verify the driver was installed successfully.
esxcli software vib list | grep nmlx
nmlx5-core
2017-01-31
nmlx5-rdma
2017-01-31
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After the installation process, all kernel modules are loaded automatically upon boot.
4.3.3 Removing Earlier Mellanox Drivers
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Please unload the previously installed drivers before removing them.
To remove all the drivers:
a. Log into the ESXi server with root permissions.
b. List all the existing NATIVE ESXi driver modules. (See Step 4 in
Driver for VMware
c. Remove each module:
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-rdma
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-core
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To remove the modules, you must run the command in the same order as shown in the example
above.
d. Reboot the server.

4.3.4 Firmware Programming

a. Download the VMware bootable binary images v4.6.0 from the
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