Software Installation Overview; Software Installation Requirements - Qlogic InfiniPath Install Manual

3 – Software Installation

Software Installation Requirements

Future releases will provide support for:
iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA)
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No support is provided for RD.
NOTE:
Further information, including the use of MPI, is found in the companion document,
the InfiniPath Interconnect User Guide. For convenience, some information appears
in both documents.
3.1

Software Installation Overview

InfiniPath and OpenFabrics software installation involves the following steps:
1. Make sure that the InfiniPath adapter installation has been completed according
to the instructions in
2. Verify that the Linux kernel software is installed on each node in your cluster.
The required kernels and supported Linux distributions for both InfiniPath and
OpenFabrics are defined below.
3. For each release, download the InfiniPath/OpenFabrics software from the
QLogic web site to a local server directory, and from there install the appropriate
packages on each cluster node as described under
and
under
4. Check that all InfiniBand switches are configured.
5. Perform the recommended health checks.
6. After installing the InfiniPath and OpenFabrics refer to the InfiniPath
Interconnect User Guide for more information on using the InfiniPath and
OpenFabrics products.
3.2
Software Installation Requirements
Information on supported distributions and kernels and on setting up your
environment are given below.
3-2
32 bit OpenFabrics programs using the verb interfaces are not supported
in this InfiniPath release, but will be supported in a future release.
section
section 3.5. Configure the InfiniPath and OpenFabrics drivers as described
section 3.8.
2.
See section 3.2.
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section 3.3, section
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