Firmware Upgrade; Linux Driver Installation; Prerequisites; Downloading Nvidia Ofed - Nvidia ConnectX-6 Dx User Manual

Firmware Upgrade

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.

Linux Driver Installation

This section describes how to install and test the NVIDIA OFED for Linux package on a single server
with a NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx adapter card installed.

Prerequisites

Platforms
Required Disk Space for Installation
Device ID
Operating System
Installer Privileges
Downloading NVIDIA OFED
1. Verify that the system has a NVIDIA network adapter installed.
The following example shows a system with an installed NVIDIA adapter card:
# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
86:00.0 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies Family
86:00.1 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies Family
2. Download the ISO image to your host.
The image's name has the format
arch>.iso
You can download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
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Requirements
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
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MFT User Manual.
the MFT User Manual.
Description
A server platform with ConnectX®-6 Dx (EN) (firmware: fw-
ConnectX6 Dx)
1GB
For the latest list of device IDs, please visit the NVIDIA
website at http://www.nvidia.com/page/
firmware_HCA_FW_identification.
Linux operating system.
For the list of supported operating system distributions and
kernels, please refer to the NVIDIA OFED Release Notes
file.
The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on
the target machine.
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label><CPU
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