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Mellanox Technologies

2 Installation

This chapter describes how to install and test the Mellanox OFED for Linux package on a single

host machine with Mellanox InfiniBand and/or Ethernet adapter hardware installed.

2.1 Hardware and Software Requirements

Table 1 - Software and Hardware Requirements

Requirements Description

Platforms A server platform with an adapter card based on one of the following

Mellanox Technologies’ InfiniBand HCA devices:

• MT27508 ConnectX®-3 (VPI, IB, EN) (firmware: fw-ConnectX3)

• MT4113 Connect-IB™ (IB) (firmware: fw-Connect-IB)

For the list of supported architecture platforms, please refer to the

Mellanox OFED Release Notes file.

Required Disk Space

for Installation

1GB

Device ID For the latest list of device IDs, please visit Mellanox website.

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 privileges on the target

machine.

2.2 Downloading Mellanox OFED

Step 1. Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter (HCA/NIC) installed by ensuring

that you can see ConnectX or InfiniHost entries in the display.

The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox HCA:

Step 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 it from http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Software> InfiniBand

Drivers.

Step 3. Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image. Run the following

command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.

# lspci -v | grep Mellanox

06:00.0 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]

Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0024

host1$ md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso