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instead, it controls a connection to an I/O controller—known as the SRP Target—to provide access
to remote storage devices across an InfiniBand fabric. The SRP Target resides in an I/O unit and
provides storage services. See Chapter 3.1, “SCSI RDMA Protocol”.
1.4.2 Mellanox Firmware Tools
The Mellanox Firmware Tools (MFT) package is a set of firmware management tools for a single
InfiniBand node. MFT can be used for:
y Generating a standard or customized Mellanox firmware image
y Querying for firmware information
y Burning a firmware image to a single InfiniBand node
The following are the MFT package content:
y mstflint - firmware burning and diagnostic tools for Mellanox manufactured HCA/NIC
cards.
Please note, this burning tool should be used only with Mellanox-manufactured HCA/NIC cards.
Using it with cards manufactured by other vendors may be harmful to the cards (due to different
configurations). Using the diagnostic tools is normally safe for all HCAs/NICs.
For details, see: http://www.mellanox.com/pdf/firmware/mstflint_README.txt
For details on tools for ESX-4.x, see: http://mellanox.com/pdf/MFT/
mlnx_mini_tools_for_vmesx40_release_notes.txt
For details on tools for ESXi-4.x, see: http://mellanox.com/pdf/MFT/
ESXi_bootable_mst_README.txt
Mellanox Firmware Tools solution applies to VMware ESX Servers only.
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