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

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Driver Installation
Please use the relevant driver installation section.
Linux Driver Installation
Windows Driver Installation
VMware Driver Installation
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 adapter card installed.
Prerequisites
Requirements Description
Platforms
A server platform with a ConnectX-6 InfiniBand/VPI adapter
card installed.
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 by running lscpi command. The
below table provides output examples per ConnectX-6 card configuration.
ConnectX-6 Socket Direct cards 2x PCIe x16 (OPNs: MCX654106A-HCAT andMCX654106A-
ECAT) are not supported inWindows and WinOF-2.
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