Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 57)

User Manual for Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for Dell PowerEdge Servers Rev 1.1
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4.3.2 Installing and Running the offline_bundle Driver on ESXi-5.x
1. Copy the offline_bundle zip file to ESXi 5.0 machine and extract its contents.
2. You can install the driver in one of the following ways:
a. Remove any earlier version of the driver from your VMware ESXi server machine prior to installing the new
version. Run:
b. Install the mlx4_en driver offline_bundle package. Run:
c. Reboot ESXi server. (The driver will be loaded automatically).
OR
a. Update the driver. Run:
b. Reboot ESXi server. (The driver will be loaded automatically).
» To verify that the driver is loaded, run:
» To query network uplinks installed on your machine, run:
The number of uplinks claimed by MLX4_EN driver should be displayed.
4.3.3 Removing the VIB/offline_bundle Driver
» To remove the VIB/offline_bundle driver package from the ESXi server machine, run:
4.4 Windows
For Windows, download and install the latest Mellanox OFED for Windows (WinOF) software
package available at the Dell support site
http://www.dell.com/support .
#> esxcli software vib list
#> esxcli software vib remove –n net-mlx4-en
#> esxcli software vib install –d
<path>/mlx4_en-mlnx-1.6.1.2-offline_bundle-471530.zip
#> esxcli software vib update –n net-mlx4-en –d
<path>/mlx4_en-mlnx-1.6.1.2-offline_bundle-471530.zip
#> vmkload_mod -l | grep mlx4_en
#> esxcli network nic list
In Non Multifunction Mode, port 2 is identified as a pseudo device. Therefore devices
are not seen by vSphere when added as uplink.
#> esxcli software vib remove –n net-mlx4-en