Mellanox Technologies ConnectX-5 Ex Manuale utente

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Mellanox ConnectX®-5 and ConnectX®-5 Ex Ethernet

SFP28 and QSFP28 Ports Adapter Cards User Manual

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Table of Contents

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

About This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.1 Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.2 Package Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.3 Features and Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.4 Operating Systems/Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.5 Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 2 Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.1 Ethernet SFP28 and QSFP28 Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.2 PCI Express Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.3 LED Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.4 Heatsink Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.5 SMBus Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.6 Voltage Regulators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 3 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.1 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.1.1 Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.1.2 Airflow Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.1.3 Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.1.3.1 Operating Systems/Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.1.3.2 Software Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.2 Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.3 Pre-Installation Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.4 Bracket Replacement Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.4.1 Removing the Existing Bracket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.4.2 Installing the New Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.5 Installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.6 Cables and Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.6.1 Cable Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.7 Adapter Card Uninstallation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.7.1 Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.7.2 Card Un-installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.8 Identify the Card in Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.8.1 On Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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3.8.2 On Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 4 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.1 Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.1.1 Hardware and Software Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.1.2 Downloading Mellanox OFED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.1.3 Installing Mellanox OFED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.1.3.1 Installation Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4.1.3.2 Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4.1.3.3 Installation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.1.3.4 Installation Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.1.3.5 openibd Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

4.1.3.6 Driver Load Upon System Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

4.1.3.7 mlnxofedinstall Return Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

4.1.4 Uninstalling Mellanox OFED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

4.1.5 Installing MLNX_OFED Using YUM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

4.1.5.1 Setting up MLNX_OFED YUM Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

4.1.5.2 Installing MLNX_OFED Using the YUM Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

4.1.5.3 Uninstalling Mellanox OFED Using the YUM Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

4.1.5.4 Installing MLNX_OFED Using apt-get Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.1.5.5 Setting up MLNX_OFED apt-get Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.1.5.6 Installing MLNX_OFED Using the apt-get Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

4.1.5.7 Uninstalling Mellanox OFED Using the apt-get Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4.1.6 Updating Firmware After Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4.1.6.1 Updating the Device Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

4.1.6.2 Updating the Device Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

4.1.6.3 Updating the Device Firmware Automatically upon System Boot . . . . . 40

4.1.7 UEFI Secure Boot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

4.1.7.1 Enrolling Mellanox's x.509 Public Key On your Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4.1.7.2 Removing Signature from kernel Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4.1.8 Performance Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

4.2 Windows Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

4.2.1 Hardware and Software Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

4.2.2 Downloading Mellanox WinOF-2 Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

4.2.3 Installing Mellanox WinOF-2 Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

4.2.3.1 Attended Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

4.2.3.2 Unattended Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

4.2.4 Installation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

4.2.5 Extracting Files Without Running Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

4.2.6 Uninstalling Mellanox WinOF-2 Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.2.6.1 Attended Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.2.6.2 Unattended Uninstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.2.7 Firmware Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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4.2.8 Deploying the Driver on a Nano Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.2.8.1 Offline Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4.2.8.2 Online Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

4.3 VMware Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

4.3.1 Hardware and Software Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

4.3.2 Installing Mellanox NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere. . . . . . . . . . 56

4.3.3 Removing Earlier Mellanox Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

4.3.4 Firmware Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 5 Updating Adapter Card Firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

5.1 Firmware Update Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Chapter 6 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

6.2 Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

6.3 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 7 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

7.1 MCX516A-BDAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

7.2 MCX516A-CDAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

7.3 MCX512A-ACAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

7.4 MCX512F-ACAT Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

7.5 MCX515A-GCAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

7.6 MCX516A-GCAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

7.7 MCX515A-CCAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

7.8 MCX516A-CCAT Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

7.9 Airflow Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

7.10 Board Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

7.11 Bracket Mechanical Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Appendix A Finding the MAC and Serial Number on the Adapter Card . . . . 76

Appendix B Safety Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

B.1 Safety Warnings in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

B.2 Avertissements de sécurité d’installation (Warnings in French) . . . . . 81

B.3 Sicherheitshinweise (Warnings in German) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

B.4 Advertencias de seguridad para la instalación (Warnings in Spanish) 85

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List of Tables

Table 1: Revision History Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Table 2: Documents List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Table 3: ConnectX-5 and ConnectX-5 Ex Ordering Part Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Table 4: ConnectX-5 Ex Ethernet Adapter Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 5: ConnectX-5 Ethernet Adapter Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 6: ConnectX-5 Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 7: Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Table 8: PCI Express Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Table 9: Physical and Logical Link Indications (Ethernet Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Table 10: ConnectX-5 Adapter Card Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Table 11: Airflow Color Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Table 12: Hardware and Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Table 13: Installation Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Table 14: mlnxofedinstall Return Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Table 15: Hardware and Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Table 16: Software and Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Table 17: General Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Table 18: Linux Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Table 19: Windows Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Table 20: Direct links for Specifications Table per OPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Table 21: MCX516A-BDAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Table 22: MCX516A-CDAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Table 23: MCX512A-ACAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Table 24: MCX512F-ACAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Table 25: MCX515A-GCAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Table 26: MCX516A-GCAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Table 27: MCX515A-CCAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Table 28: MCX516A-CCAT Specification Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Table 29: Airflow Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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List of Figures

Figure 1: EMI Fingers on QSFP28 Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Figure 2: Plastic Ziplock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Figure 3: PCI Device (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Figure 4: Installation Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 5: Mechanical Drawing of Dual-port x16 Adapter Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Figure 6: Mechanical Drawing of the Dual-port x8 Adapter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Figure 7: Single-port Tall Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Figure 8: Dual-port Tall Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Figure 9: MCX512A-ACAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 10: MCX512F-ACAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Figure 11: MCX516A-BDAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Figure 12: MCX515A-GCAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Figure 13: MCX516A-GCAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Figure 14: MCX515A-CCAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Figure 15: MCX516A-CCAT Board Label Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Figure 16: MCX516A-CDAT Board Label (Example) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Rev 1.7 8Mellanox Technologies

Revision History

This document was printed on November 11, 2018.

Table 1 - Revision History Table

Date Rev Comments/Changes

November 2018 1.7 Added MCX512F-ACAT and MCX512A-ACAT support across document and

added the following:

•Product Overview on page 12

•MCX512A-ACAT Specifications on page 65

•MCX512F-ACAT Specifications on page 66

January 2018 1.6 • Added a note to System Requirements on page 18.

November 2017 1.5 • Updated Adapter Card LED Operations on page 72

September 2017 1.4 • Added MCX516A-BDAT support across document and added the following:

• MCX516A-BDAT Specifications on page 63

• MCX512A-ACAT Board Label (Example) on page 76.

• Updated the following sections:

• Linux on page 28

• MCX515A-GCAT Specification Table on page 67

• MCX516A-GCAT Specification Table on page 68

• MCX515A-CCAT Specifications on page 69

• MCX516A-CCAT Specifications on page 70

• Airflow Specifications on page 71

August 2017 1.3 • Added MCX515A-GCAT and MCX516A-GCAT support across document and

added the following:

• MCX516A-BDAT Specifications on page 63

• MCX516A-GCAT Specification Table on page 68

• Single-port Tall Bracket on page 74

• MCX512A-ACAT Board Label (Example) on page 76

• MCX516A-GCAT Board Label (Example) on page 77

• Updated the following specifications tables:

• MCX515A-CCAT Specifications on page 69

• MCX516A-CCAT Specifications on page 70

• MCX516A-CDAT Specifications on page 64

July 2017 1.2 • Updated the following specifications tables:

• MCX515A-CCAT Specifications on page 69

• MCX516A-CCAT Specifications on page 70

• MCX516A-CDAT Specifications on page 64

• Updated Airflow Specifications on page 71

April 2017 1.1 • Updated Product Overview on page 12

• Updated Installation Instructions on page 21

March 2017 1.0 First release

Rev 1.7 9Mellanox Technologies

About This Manual

This User Manual describes Mellanox Technologies ConnectX®-5 and ConnectX®-5 Ex Ether-

net Single and Dual SFP28 and QSFP28 port PCI Express x8/x16 adapter cards. It provides

details as to the interfaces of the board, specifications, required software and firmware for operat-

ing the board, and relevant documentation.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for the installer and user of these cards.

The manual assumes basic familiarity with Ethernet network and architecture specifications.

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