Last summer, while reading the ServeTheHome.com website, I saw a great link to Ebay for Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI cards (MCX354A-FCBT). These cards where selling at $299 on ebay. I took three of the awesome cards. These Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI adapters where simply too good to be true… Dual FDR 56Gb/s or 40/56GbE using PCIe Generation 3 slots. Having three of these Host Card Adapters without a InfiniBand switch is limiting.
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With my new Homelab 2014 design, I now have two vSphere hosts that have PCIe Generation 3 slots, and using a simple QSFP+ Fiber Cable, I can create a direct point-to-point connection between the two vSphere hosts.
Mellanox Firmware Download
The Mellanox Firmware Tools (MFT) that can run within the vSphere 5.5 and allow to check the state of the InfiniBand adapter and even update the firmware.
Apr 19, 2017 I believe this may be due to the firmware revision on the card (currently 2.9.1200) needing to be upgraded to at least 2.9.8350, however according to Mellanox's dirver page, the ConnectX2 EN only goes up to 2.9.1200 (my current rev). Does anyone know if these cards can be. InfiniBand/VPI Software Overview Current OS Vendor Support. Mellanox InfiniBand and VPI drivers, protocol software and tools are supported by respective major OS Vendors and Distributions Inbox or by Mellanox where noted. Mellanox also supports all major processor architectures.
Installing the tools is very straight forward.
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# esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/mlx-fw/MLNX-MFT-ESXi5.5-3.5.1.7.zip
Unfortunately it requires a reboot.
The next steps going to be to start the MST service, check the status of the of the Mellanox devices and query them to check the current level of firmware.
I don’t need to have the Mellanox MST driver running all the time, so I will simply start it using /opt/mellanox/bin/mst start.
Next we will query the state of all Mellanox devices in the host using /opt/mellanox/bin/mst status -v from which we will get the path to the devices.
We then use the flint tool to query the devices to get their stats.
/opt/mellanox/bin/flint -d /dev/mt40099_pci_cr0 hw query
and
/opt/mellanox/bin/flint -d /dev/mt40099_pci_cr0 query
which returns us the current Firmware version and the GUIDs and MACs for the host card adapters.
Well as I’m running only FW Version 2.10.700 its time to upgrade this firmware to release 2.30.8000
/opt/mellanox/bin/flint -d /dev/mt4099_pci_cr0 -i /tmp/mlx-fw/fw-ConnectX3-rel-2_30_8000-MCX354A-FCB_A1-FlexBoot-3.4.151_VPI.bin burn does the trick.
And we can quickly check the new running firmware on the InfiniBand adapter.
As we are preparing to roll out Windows Server 2012 R2 we are also updating the Mellanox cards we have. At the moment of writing the final driver & firmware for Windows Server 2012 R2 isn’t out yet, but let’s take a look at the process so you’re ready for prime time. If you need the latest public Mellanox driver for Windows Server 2012 R2 it’s here. Installing the driver is a straight forward process (upgrading servers with Mellanox drivers in place has been an issue however).
Mellanox provides good documentation on their site (http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_HCA_FW_identification & http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_NIC_FW_update) but for Mellanox newbies & many Windows server admins the process might be a bit more hands on than via a single installer they are used to.
The Windows Mellanox Firmware Tools (WinMFT). This gives you all the tools you need to get the job done.
It helps us with two things: find out Card ID and using that we can determine the PSID (Board ID) which tells us what firmware we need to down load.
The Win MFT tools are also used to burn the firmware.
Practical Tip 1: I have found that it pays to launch the installers Mellanox provides from an elevated command prompt as other wise UAC might trip up some clean finalization of a launched msi. The driver installer is more sensitive to this that the firmware installer.
Practical Tip 2: I you have OEM Mellanox cards from DELL/ HP/IBM … and they haven’t released the new firmware yet you can always burn your own. Please find the instructions here.
Mellanox Update Firmware
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM running and I already installed the latest beta drivers I could find on the Mellanox site. But I’m a firmware version behind. So let’s fix this.
I put all the files I need in one handy spot
I launch an elevated command prompt
And from there I lauch the WinMFT installer
Just follow the instructions.
Now you’re ready to determine the Device ID of your Mellanox card. From that same elevated command prompt navigate to C:Program FilesMellanoxWinMFT and run mst status
Grab the Device ID (marked in green) and execute following command:
flint -d /dev/mst/mt4099_pci_cr0 query
The Board ID (marked in yellow) is actually the PSID (more information here) will tell you what firmware to download from the Mellanox site). By the way, note this also tells you the current firmware.
Mellanox Firmware Tools (mft) User Manual
You download the firmware from http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_download by selecting the card you have. In my case a ConnectX®-3 EN PCI-Ex Network Interface Cards (Ethernet Only NICs) and is use the Board ID to find my download.
All that’s left to do is burn the firmware image by executing the following command:
flint -d /dev/mst/mt4099_pci_cr0 -i C:SysAdminMellanoxFirmwarefw-ConnectX3-rel-2_30_3000-MCX312A-XCB_A2-A6-3.4.142_EN.bin burn
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This requires you to confirm by typing in “y” and you can follow the process via a counter.
Mellanox Firmware Tools (mft)
When done you’ll need to reboot the server I order for the new firmware to actually get used. You can verify success by running the command again or by checking the information tab of you cards configuration settings. As you can see we’re running 2.30.3000 now.
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So here you go. You might need to do this again after October 18th 2013 but you’re ready for now and all the testing you do is on the latest version of both the driver and the firmware. Happy testing!