Ethernet Mezzanine Card Installation
Rev 1.9
Mellanox Technologies
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Ethernet Mezzanine Card Installation
3.1
Hardware Requirements
This card requires a PCI Express connector as specified in the Open Compute Project Intel Moth-
erboard spec v2.0.
3.2
Installation Instructions
Read all installation instructions before connecting the equipment to the power source.
The cards require a PCI Express x4 or x8 Mezzanine connector. Please consult the host machine
documentation for instructions on how to install a PCI Express Mezzanine connector.
3.3
Identify the Card in Your System
3.3.1
On Windows
1. Open Device Manager on the server. Click start => Run, and then enter “devmgmt.msc”.
2. Expand System Devices and locate your Mellanox ConnectX-3 Mezzanine card.
3. Select Properties to display the Mezzanine card properties window.
4. Click the Details tab and select
Device Instance Id
(Windows 2003) or
Hardware Ids
(Windows 2008/R2) from the Property pull-down menu.
Figure 5: PCI Device
5. In the Value display box, check the fields VEN and DEV (fields are separated by ‘&’). In the
display example above, notice the sub-string “PCI\VEN_15B3&DEV_1003”: VEN is equal
If the card is installed in a PCI Mezzanine connector with less lanes than the card
requires then the Mezzanine card will not provide the optimum data transfer.
