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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 MLNX_OFED for Linux package on a single server
with a ConnectX-7 adapter card installed.
Prerequisites
Requirements
Platforms
Required Disk Space for Installation
Operating System
Installer Privileges
Downloading MLNX_OFED
1.
Verify that the system has a network adapter installed by running lspci command. The below
table provides output examples per ConnectX-7 card configuration.
ConnectX-7 Card
Configuration
Single-port PCIe x16
Card
Dual-port PCIe x16
Card
2. Download the ISO image to your host.
The image's name has the format
MFT User
A server platform with a ConnectX-7 InfiniBand/Ethernet
adapter card installed.
1GB
Linux operating system.
For the list of supported operating system distributions and
kernels, please refer to the MLNX_OFED Release Notes.
The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on
the target machine.
[root@mftqa-009 ~]# lspci |grep mellanox -ia
3:00.0 Infiniband controller: Mellanox Technologies MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7]
[root@mftqa-009 ~]# lspci |grep mellanox -ia
86:00.0 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7]
86:00.1 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT2910 Family [ConnectX-7]
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label><CPU
Manual.
the MFT User
Manual.
Description
Output Examples
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