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These settings set the amount of memory that can be pinned by a userspace application to unlimited. If desired, tune the value
unlimited to a specific amount of RAM.
For your machine to be part of the InfiniBand/VPI fabric, a Subnet Manager must be running on one of the fabric nodes. At this point, OFED for Linux
has already installed the OpenSM Subnet Manager on your machine.
For the list of installation options, run:
./mlnxofedinstall --h
Installation Procedure
This section describes the installation procedure of MLNX_OFED on NVIDIA adapter cards.
a.
Log in to the installation machine as root.
b.
Mount the ISO image on your machine.
host1# mount -o ro,loop MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>-<CPU arch>.iso /mnt
c.
Run the installation script.
/mnt/mlnxofedinstall
Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-x.x-x.logs
This program will install the MLNX_OFED_LINUX
Note that all other Mellanox, OEM, OFED, RDMA or Distribution IB packages will be removed.
Those packages are removed due to conflicts with MLNX_OFED_LINUX,
Starting MLNX_OFED_LINUX-x.x.x installation ...
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Installation finished successfully.
Attempting to perform Firmware update...
Querying Mellanox devices firmware ...
package
on your machine.
do
not reinstall them.
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