ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Ethernet Dual Port Adapter Card User Manual for Dell PowerEdge
Rev 1.2
Mellanox Technologies
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4.3.3
Removing Previous Mellanox Driver
To remove all the drivers:
1. Log into the ESXi server with root permissions.
2. List the existing ConnectX-4 NATIVE ESX driver modules. (see
).
3. Remove each module.
4. Reboot the server.
4.3.4
Loading/Unloading Driver Kernel Modules
To unload the driver:
To load the driver:
To restart the driver:
4.3.5
Firmware Programming
1. Download the VMware images v4.3.0 from the
site.
•
ESX 5.5 File:
mft-4.3.0.25-10EM-550.0.0.1391871.x86_64.vib
MD5SUM:
62f953b77f4ea49c420ff4e1ce8b925b
•
ESX 6.0 File:
mft-4.3.0.25-10EM-600.0.0.2768847.x86_64.vib
MD5SUM:
6a3bd63882f2ca3f696c1a96d62112df
Please unload the driver before removing it.
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-core
To remove the modules, the command must be run in the same order as shown in the
example above.
esxcfg-module -u nmlx5_core
/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop
esxcfg-module nmlx5_core
/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start
kill -POLL $(cat /var/run/vmware/vmkdevmgr.pid)
/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop
esxcfg-module -u nmlx5_core
esxcfg-module nmlx5_core
/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start
kill -POLL $(cat /var/run/vmware/vmkdevmgr.pid)
