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Installing Mellanox InfiniBand OFED Driver for VMware vSphereRev 1.8.2
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2 Installing Mellanox InfiniBand OFED Driver for
VMware vSphere
This chapter describes how to install and test the Mellanox InfiniBand OFED Driver for VMware
vSphere package on a single host machine with Mellanox InfiniBand hardware installed.
The InfiniBand OFED driver installation on VMware ESXi Server 5.0 is done using VMware's
VIB bundles.
 To install the driver:
1. Log into the ESXi5.0 server with root permissions.
2. Install the driver.
3. Reboot the machine.
4. Verify the driver was installed successfully.
Please uninstall any previous Mellanox driver packages prior to installing the new ver-
sion.
#> esxcli software vib install -d <bundle_file>
#> esxcli software vib list | grep Mellanox
net-ib-core 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
net-ib-ipoib 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
net-ib-mad 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
net-ib-sa 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
net-ib-umad 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
net-mlx4-core 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
net-mlx4-ib 1.8.1 OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2013-02-09
After the installation process, all kernel modules are loaded automatically upon boot.