Nvidia ConnectX-6 Dx - Linux Driver Installation; Downloading NVIDIA OFED

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