HOWTO: Installation of Mellanox Infiniband OFED stack on Linux.

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The Mellanox OFED is a single Virtual Protocol Internconnect (VPI) software stack based on the Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) Linux stack.

OFED Install instructions:

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

# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
02:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s] (rev a0)

2. Download the ISO image to your host.
The image’s name has the format MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso.
You can be downloaded from http://www.mellanox.com > Products > IB SW/Drivers.

3. md5sum the ISO image. Run the following
command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.

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

4. Mount the ISO

# mount -o ro,loop MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso /mnt

5. Run the install script

# /mnt/mlnxofedinstall
firmware upgrade for the HCA will be executed automatically.
Installation finished successfully.
Programming HCA firmware...
Device: /dev/mst/mt25418_pci_cr0
Running: mlxburn -d /dev/mst/mt25418_pci_cr0 -fw ./firmware/fw-25408/fw-25408-
rel.mlx -no
-I- Image burn completed successfully.
warning: /etc/infiniband/openib.conf saved as /etc/infiniband/openib.conf.rpmsave
Please reboot your system for the changes to take effect.

6. The install will have installed the subnet manager on each machine. we only need to have it actually running on one of the fabric nodes.

7. Run infiniband link test