User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Mellanox WinOF VPI User Manual
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Document Revision History
- About this Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Firmware Upgrade
- 3 Driver Features
- 3.1 Hyper-V with VMQ
- 3.2 Header Data Split
- 3.3 Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- 3.4 Port Configuration
- 3.5 Load Balancing, Fail-Over (LBFO) and VLAN
- 3.6 Ports TX Arbitration
- 3.7 RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- 3.8 Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation
- 3.9 Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
- 4 Deploying Windows Server 2012 and Above with SMB Direct
- 5 Driver Configuration
- 6 Performance Tuning
- 7 OpenSM - Subnet Manager
- 8 InfiniBand Fabric
- 8.1 Network Direct Interface
- 8.2 part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port Creation Utility
- 8.3 InfiniBand Fabric Diagnostic Utilities
- 8.3.1 Utilities Usage
- 8.3.2 ibdiagnet
- 8.3.3 ibportstate
- 8.3.4 ibroute
- 8.3.5 ibdump
- 8.3.6 smpquery
- 8.3.7 perfquery
- 8.3.8 ibping
- 8.3.9 ibnetdiscover
- 8.3.10 ibtracert
- 8.3.11 sminfo
- 8.3.12 ibclearerrors
- 8.3.13 ibstat
- 8.3.14 vstat
- 8.3.15 osmtest
- 8.3.16 ibaddr
- 8.3.17 ibcacheedit
- 8.3.18 iblinkinfo
- 8.3.19 ibqueryerrors
- 8.3.20 ibsysstat
- 8.3.21 saquery
- 8.3.22 smpdump
- 8.4 InfiniBand Fabric Performance Utilities
- 8.4.1 ib_read_bw
- 8.4.2 ib_read_lat
- 8.4.3 ib_send_bw
- 8.4.4 ib_send_lat
- 8.4.5 ib_write_bw
- 8.4.6 ib_write_lat
- 8.4.7 ibv_read_bw
- 8.4.8 ibv_read_lat
- 8.4.9 ibv_send_bw
- 8.4.10 ibv_send_lat
- 8.4.11 ibv_write_bw
- 8.4.12 ibv_write_lat
- 8.4.13 nd_write_bw
- 8.4.14 nd_write_lat
- 8.4.15 nd_read_bw
- 8.4.16 nd_read_lat
- 8.4.17 nd_send_bw
- 8.4.18 nd_send_lat
- 8.4.19 NTttcp
- 9 Software Development Kit
- 10 Troubleshooting
- 11 Documentation
- Appendix A: Windows MPI (MS-MPI)
- Appendix B: NVGRE Configuration Scrips Examples
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2 Firmware Upgrade
The adapter card may not have been shipped with the latest firmware version. The section below
describes how to update firmware.
2.1 Downloading Firmware
To identify your adapter card, perform the following steps:
Step 1. Extract the HCA PSID. Run “vstat”.
Step 2. Download the latest firmware using the PSID from the step above.
Go to: http://www.mellanox.com > Support > Support Downloader,
Step 3. Unzip the binary image (.zip file).
2.2 Downloading Mellanox Firmware Tools
Step 1. Download Mellanox Firmware Tools
Go to: http://www.mellanox.com > P
roducts > Firmware Tools.
The tools’ package to download is "MFT Software for Windows_x64" for x64 architecture.