Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 MCX654106A-ECAT - Driver and Firmware Management; OS Driver Installation

39
•
•
•
1.
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 Mellanox OFED for Linux package on a single server
with a Mellanox ConnectX-5 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 Mellanox
website athttp://www.mellanox.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 Mellanox OFED Release Notes
file.
InstallerPrivileges The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on
the target machine.
Downloading Mellanox OFED
Verify that the system has a Mellanox 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.
