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ConnectX®-3 Pro 10Gb/s Ethernet Single and Dual SFP+ Port Network Interface Card User Manual for OCP

Rev 1.1

Mellanox Technologies

Revision History

This document was printed on January 17, 2016.

Table 1 - Revision History Table

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January 2016

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Updated

Section 3.4, “Card Installation Instructions,” on page 15

January 2015

1.0

First Release

Summary of Contents for ConnectX 3 Pro

Page 1: ...www mellanox com ConnectX 3 Pro 10Gb s Ethernet Single and Dual SFP Port Network Interface Card User Manual for Open Compute Project P N MCX341A XCPN MCX342A XCPN MCX341A XCQN MCX342A XCQN Rev 1 1 ...

Page 2: ...OTE THIS HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR TEST SUITE PRODUCT PRODUCT S AND ITS RELATED DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS OF ANY KIND AND SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING THE CUSTOMER IN TESTING APPLICATIONS THAT USE THE PRODUCTS IN DESIGNATED SOLUTIONS THE CUSTOMER S MANUFACTURING TEST ENVIRONMENT HAS NOT MET THE STANDARDS SET BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TO FULLY QUALIFY T...

Page 3: ...15 3 1 3 Software Stacks 15 3 2 SafetyPrecautions 15 3 3 Pre installationChecklist 15 3 4 Card Installation Instructions 15 3 5 Cables and Modules 16 3 6 Identify the Card in Your System 16 3 6 1 On Windows 16 3 6 2 On Linux 17 Chapter 4 Driver Installation 18 4 1 LinuxDriver 18 4 1 1 Hardware and Software Requirements 18 4 1 2 Installing the Driver 18 4 1 3 Loading the Driver 19 4 1 4 Unloading t...

Page 4: ... 7 1 MCX341A XC P Q NSpecifications 40 7 2 MCX342A XC P Q NSpecifications 41 7 3 Board Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions 42 7 4 Adapter LED Operation 43 Appendix A Finding the MAC and Serial Number on the Card 44 A 1 Retrieving Card GUID 46 Appendix B Interface Connectors Pinout 48 B 1 PCI Express x8 Connector Pinout 48 B 2 I2C compatible Connector Pinout 49 B 3 NC SI Interface Pinout 49 Appendix ...

Page 5: ...f the Single port MCX341A Mezzanine Card 42 Figure 5 Mechanical Drawing of the Dual port MCX342A Mezzanine Card 43 Figure 6 MCX341A XCPN Board Label Example only see Note 44 Figure 7 MCX341A XCQN Board Label Example only see Note 45 Figure 8 MCX342A XCPN Board Label Example only see Note 45 Figure 9 MCX342A XCQN Board Label Example only see Note 46 Figure 10 PCIe Connector Pinout 48 Figure 11 Comp...

Page 6: ...abit Ethernet Network Interface Cards 10 Table 4 Features 11 Table 5 Software and Hardware Requirements 18 Table 6 Software and Hardware Requirements 20 Table 7 MCX341A XC P Q N Specifications Table 40 Table 8 MCX342A XC P Q N Specifications Table 41 Table 9 Physical and Logical Link Indication 43 Table 10 I2C compatible Connector Pinout 49 ...

Page 7: ...User Manual for OCP Rev 1 1 Mellanox Technologies 7 Revision History This document was printed on January 17 2016 Table 1 Revision History Table Date Rev Comments Changes January 2016 1 1 Updated Section 3 4 Card Installation Instructions on page 15 January 2015 1 0 First Release ...

Page 8: ...EN Linux driver and instructions for installing the driver on Mellanox Con nectX adapter cards supporting 10Gb s Ethernet Mellanox OFED for Linux User Manual Document no 2877 User Manual describing OFED features performance InfiniBand diagnostic tools content and configuration See http www mella nox com Products Software Linux SW Drivers Mel lanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution for Linux MLNX...

Page 9: ... are invited to contact us through the following methods URL http www mellanox com Support E mail support mellanox com Tel 1 408 916 0055 Customers who purchased Mellanox M 1 Global Support Services please see your contract for details regarding Technical Support Customers who purchased Mellanox products through a Mellanox approved reseller should first seek assistance through their reseller Firmw...

Page 10: ...10 Section 1 2 Features and Benefits on page 11 Section 1 3 Operating Systems Distributions on page 12 Section 1 4 Connectivity on page 12 1 1 Product Overview The following tables provide the ordering part number port speed number of ports and PCI Express speed Table 4 Single and Dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Cards Ordering Part Number OPN MCX341A XCPN MCX341A XCQN MCX342A XCPN ...

Page 11: ...ding throughput over 10GbE The hardware based stateless offload engines in Con nectX 3 Pro reduce the CPU overhead of IP packet transport Sockets accelera tion software further increases performance for latency sensitive applications Quality of Service QoS Support for port based Quality of Service enabling various application require ments for latency and SLA Hardware based I O virtualization Conn...

Page 12: ... Server 2008 CCS 2003 HPC Server 2008 OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution OFED OpenFabrics Windows Distribution WinOF VMware ESX Server 3 5 vSphere 4 0 4 1 1 4 Connectivity Interoperable with 10GbE switches Passive copper cable with ESD protection Powered connectors for optical and active cable support QSFP to SFP connectivity through QSA module Passive copper cable with ESD protection ...

Page 13: ...rnet standards listed in Table 5 Features on page 11 2 2 PCI Express Interface The ConnectX 3 Pro network interface cards support PCI Express 3 0 1 1 and 2 0 compatible through an x8 edge connector The device can be either a master initiating the PCI Express bus operations or a slave responding to PCI bus operations The following lists the PCIe interface features PCIe Base 3 0 compliant 1 1 and 2 ...

Page 14: ...rk Controller Sideband Interface NC SI Specification Rev 1 0 0a When the ConnectX 3 Pro network controller drive is running on the main CPU messages that target the adapter s NC SI are forwarded by the adapter to the host memory the adapter then fetches the message from the host memory and forwards it to the BMC over the NC SI interface When the main CPU is powered down or the adapter network cont...

Page 15: ...ist 1 Verify that your system meets the hardware and software requirements stated above 2 Shut down your system if active 3 After shutting down the system turn off power and unplug the cord 4 Remove the card from its package Please note that the card must be placed on an antistatic surface 5 Check the card for visible signs of damage Do not attempt to install the card if damaged 3 4 Card Installat...

Page 16: ... display the network inter face card properties window 4 Click the Details tab and select Device Instance Id Windows 2003 5 Hardware Ids Windows 2008 R2 from the Properties pull down menu Figure 2 PCI Device Example 6 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 to 0x15B3 this is ...

Page 17: ...running lspci and locating lines with the string Mella nox Technologies If the PCI device does not have a Mellanox adapter ID return to Step 2 to check another device The list of Mellanox Technologies PCI Device IDs can be found in the PCI ID reposi tory at http pci ids ucw cz read PC 15b3 lspci grep i Mellanox 27 00 0 Network controller Mellanox Technologies MT27520 Family ConnectX 3 Pro ...

Page 18: ...ge Please download the current driver package from http www mellanox com Products Software Ethernet Driver Linux Driver Download Step 2 Install Driver Run the following commands to install the driver Table 6 Software and Hardware Requirements Requirements Description Platforms CPU architectures x86_64 x86 power pc Device ID For the latest list of device IDs please visit http pci ids ucw cz read PC...

Page 19: ...with the running kernel This mode is used for vanilla kernels Note If the Vanilla kernel is installed as rpm please use the disable kmp flag when installing the driver The kernel module sources are placed under usr src mellanox mlnx en 1 5 10 Run the follow ing commands to recompile the driver The uninstall and performance tuning scripts are installed Note If the driver was installed without kmp s...

Page 20: ...console Click start Run and enter CMD 2 Enter the following command On an x64 64 bit machine the output will be AMD64 Step 2 Go to the MLNX_WinOF for Windows Web page at http www mellanox com Products Software Ethernet Drivers Windows SW Drivers Step 3 Download the exe image according to the architecture of your machine see step Step 1 The name of the exe is in the following format MLNX_VPI_WinOF ...

Page 21: ...ut Running Installation To extract the files without running installation perform the following steps Step 1 Open a CMD console Click Start Run and enter CMD Step 2 Enter the following command Step 3 Click Next to create a server image Step 4 Click Change and specify the location in which the files are extracted to MLNX_VPI_WinOF version _All_ OS _ arch exe a ...

Page 22: ...k Change to install to a different folder Step 6 To complete the extraction click Finish 4 2 4 Installing MLNX_WinOF This section provides instructions for two types of installation procedures Attended Installation An installation procedure that requires frequent user intervention Unattended Installation ...

Page 23: ... follow the GUI instructions to install MLNX_WinOF To configure your setup to contain the logs option please run the following command after opening a CMD console If you do not want to upgrade your firmware version run the following command For further help please run Step 2 Click Next in the Welcome screen Both Attended and Unattended installations require administrator privileges MLNX_VPI_WinOF ...

Page 24: ... 3 Read then accept the license agreement and click Next Step 4 Select the target folder for the installation Step 5 The firmware upgrade screen will be displayed in the following cases If the user has an OEM card in this case the firmware will not be updated ...

Page 25: ... has a standard Mellanox card and the firmware version is older than the one specified in WinOF Installation Guide 4 40 the firmware will be updated accordingly However if the user has both OEM card and Mellanox card only Mellanox card will be updated Step 6 Configure your system for maximum performance by checking the maximum performance box ...

Page 26: ...es tools install the performance tools that are used to measure the InfiniBand performance in user environment Analyze tools install the tools that can be used either to diagnosed or analyzed the Infini Band environment SDK contains the libraries and DLLs for developing InfiniBand application over IBAL Documentation contains the User Manual and Installation Guide ND FLTR DLLs contains the files fo...

Page 27: ...ConnectX 3 Pro 10Gb s Ethernet Single and Dual SFP Port Network Interface Card User Manual for OCP Rev 1 1 Mellanox Technologies 27 b Click Install to start the installation ...

Page 28: ...irmware upgrade fails the following message will be displayed 4 2 4 2 Unattended Installation The following is an example of a MLNX_WinOF_win8 x64 unattended installation session Step 1 Open the CMD console click Start Run and enter cmd Step 2 Install the driver Run MLNX_VPI_WinOF 4_40_0_All_win8_x64 exe S v qn ...

Page 29: ...indows 2012 driver do not completely uninstall the previous version In Windows 2012 MLNX_WinOF Rev 4 2 and above the network configuration is saved upon driver upgrade In Windows 2008 R2 the existing configuration files are not saved upon driver upgrade 4 2 6 Installation Results Upon installation completion you can verify the successful addition of the network card s through the Device Manager To...

Page 30: ...n Ethernet interfaces running OpenSM is not required OpenSM does not run as a service during installation as it requires the GUID parameter to decide on which port to work Setting OpenSM upon setup results in it working only for the first port and not for the others To run OpenSM as a service assuming the package was installed in the default path use To start the service run For further informatio...

Page 31: ...CMD console Step 2 Uninstall the driver Run 4 2 9 Assigning Port IP After Installation By default your machine is configured to obtain an automatic IP address via a DHCP server In some cases the DHCP server may require the MAC address of the network adapter installed in your machine To obtain the MAC address Step 1 Open a CMD console Step 2 Display the MAC address as Physical Address Configuring a...

Page 32: ...3 VMware Driver For VMware download and install the latest Mellanox OFED Driver for VMware ESXi Server software package available via the Mellanox web site at http www mellanox com Products Software Ethernet Drivers VMware Drivers Download Follow the installation instructions included in the download package also available from the download page ipconfig Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 4 Co...

Page 33: ...o 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 esxcli software vib list esxcli software vib remove n net ...

Page 34: ...nt PXE standard specification and FlexBoot software is based on the open source iPXE project see www ipxe org For more information go to http www mellanox com Products Software Ethernet Drivers Download 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...

Page 35: ...e MFT package The package is available at http www mellanox com Products Software Firmware Tools Make sure to download the package corresponding to your computer s operating system b Enter mst start c Get the Mellanox mst device name using the command mst status The mst device name will be of the form dev mst mt4099_pci_cr0 d Get the PSID firmware identification and programmed firmware version usi...

Page 36: ...e as follows a Download the firmware image zip file from the Support Downloader see Step 2a above b Unzip the firmware image c Burn the firmware image Enter a Reboot the computer b Enter mst start c Verify that the card firmware was updated successfully flint d dev mst mt4099_pci_cr0 i binary image burn flint d dev mst mt4099_pci_cr0 q Image type ConnectX FW Version 2 9 4100 Device ID 4099 ...

Page 37: ...r The adapter no longer works Reseat the adapter in its slot or a different slot if necessary Try using another cable Reinstall the drivers for the network driver files may be damaged or deleted Reboot the server Adapters stopped working after installing another adapter Try removing and re installing all adapters Check that cables are connected properly Make sure your motherboard has the latest BI...

Page 38: ...i grep i Mellanox Mellanox Firmware Tool MFT Download and install MFT http www mellanox com content pages php pg management_tools menu_section 34 Refer to the User Manual for installation instructions Once installed run mst start mst status flint d mst_device q Ports Information ibstat lbv_devinfo Firmware Version Upgrade To download the latest firmware version refer to http www mellanox com suppo...

Page 39: ...x com content pages php pg management_tools menu_section 34 Refer to the User Manual for installation instructions Once installed open a CMD window and run cd C Program Files Mellanox WinMFT mst start mst status flint d mst_device q Ports Information vstat Firmware Version Upgrade Download the latest firmware version using the PSID board ID http www mellanox com supportdownloader flint d mst_devic...

Page 40: ...ower Passive Cables 3 72W Max Power Passive Cables 5 10W Max power available through SFP port 1W Temperature Operational 0 C to 45 C Non operational 0 C to 70 C Humidity 90 relative humiditya a For both operational and non operational states Air Flow 300LFMb b Air flow is measured 1 from the Mezz from the cooling air inlet side Regulatory EMC Refer to the following link www mellanox com related do...

Page 41: ...vironmental Voltage 5V 3 3V Typ Power Passive Cables 5 09W Max Power Passive Cables 6 38W Max power available through SFP port 1W Temperature Operational 0 C to 45 C Non operational 0 C to 70 C Humidity 90 relative humiditya a For both operational and non operational states Air Flow 300LFMb b Air flow is measured 1 from the Mezz from the cooling air inlet side Regulatory EMC Refer to the following...

Page 42: ...v 1 1 Mellanox Technologies 42 7 3 Board Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions Figure 4 Mechanical Drawing of the Single port MCX341A Mezzanine Card All dimensions are in millimeters All the mechanical tolerances are 0 1mm ...

Page 43: ...tion There are two I O LEDs per port See Table 10 for different LED functions Table 10 Physical and Logical Link Indication Port and LED Link LED Function P0 LED0 Physical link Green 10G link is present Physical link Yellow Other link status is present P0 LED1 Logical Link Activity Green P1 LED0 Physical link Green 10G link is present Physical link Yellow Other link status is present P1 LED1 Logic...

Page 44: ... serial number and the card MAC for Ethernet protocol Note The revision indicated on the labels in the following figures do not necessarily represent the latest revision of the card Card revision changes are communicated via Product Change Notification PCN documents that are available via card suppliers Figure 6 MCX341A XCPN Board Label Example only see Note ...

Page 45: ... Ethernet Single and Dual SFP Port Network Interface Card User Manual for OCP Rev 1 1 Mellanox Technologies 45 Figure 7 MCX341A XCQN Board Label Example only see Note Figure 8 MCX342A XCPN Board Label Example only see Note ...

Page 46: ... between the GUID value returned by firm ware management tools and that returned by fabric driver utilities that read the GUID via device firmware e g using ibstat Mlxburn flint returns 0xffff as GUID while the utilities return a value derived from the MAC address For all driver firmware software purposes the latter value should be used Please see the below example ...

Page 47: ...0 SM lid 0 Capability mask 0x00010000 Port GUID 0x0000000000000000 Link layer Ethernet Port 2 State Down Physical state Disabled Rate 10 Base lid 0 LMC 0 SM lid 0 Capability mask 0x00010000 Port GUID 0x0000000000000000 Link layer Ethernet flint d dev mst mt4103_pci_cr0 qq q W Running quick query Skipping full image integrity checks Image type ConnectX FW Version 2 30 5000 Device ID 4103 Descriptio...

Page 48: ...ndix B Interface Connectors Pinout B 1 PCI Express x8 Connector Pinout The cards use a standard PCI Express x8 connector and the PCI Express x8 standard pinout according to the PCI Express 3 0 specification Figure 10 PCIe Connector Pinout ...

Page 49: ...gies 49 B 2 I2 C compatible Connector Pinout A three hole footprint for I2C Harness is provided as the I2C compatible interface Figure 11 Compatible Connector Plug and Pinout B 3 NC SI Interface Pinout Figure 12 NC SI Interface Pinout Table 11 I2C compatible Connector Pinout Connector Pin Number Signal Name 1 GND 2 SCL 3 SDA ...

Page 50: ...e Read all installation instructions before connecting the equipment to the power source This equipment should not be operated in an area with an ambient temperature exceed ing the maximum recommended 55 C 131 F To guarantee proper air flow allow at least 8cm 3 inches of clearance around the ven tilation openings During periods of lightning activity do not work on the equipment or connect or dis c...

Page 51: ...le and Dual SFP Port Network Interface Card User Manual for OCP Rev 1 1 Mellanox Technologies 51 CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT and reference to the most recent laser standards IEC 60 825 1 1993 A1 1997 A2 2001 and EN 60825 1 1994 A1 1996 A2 2001 ...

Page 52: ...dépassant le maximum recommandé de 55 C 131 F Un flux d air de 200LFM à cette température ambiante maximale est nécessaire En outre pour garantir un bon écoulement de l air laissez au moins 8 cm 3 pouces d espace libre autour des ouver tures de ventilation Pendant un orage il ne faut pas utiliser le matériel et il ne faut pas brancher ou débrancher les câbles Ce matériel ne doit être installé remp...

Page 53: ... rayonnement grave Mise en garde l utilisation de commandes ou de réglages ou l exécution de procédures autres que ce qui est spécifié dans les présentes peut engendrer une exposition au rayonnement grave PRODUIT LASER DE CLASSE 1 et références aux normes laser les plus récentes CEI 60 825 1 1993 A1 1997 A2 2001 et NE 60825 1 1994 A1 1996 A2 2001 ...

Page 54: ...5 C 131 F betrieben werden Es ist ein Luft strom von 200 LFM bei maximaler Umgebungstemperatur erforderlich Außerdem sollten mindestens 8 cm 3 in Freiraum um die Belüftungsöffnungen sein um einen einwandfreien Luftstrom zu gewährleisten Arbeiten Sie während eines Gewitters und Blitzschlag nicht am Gerät schließen Sie keine Kabel an oder ab Diese Gerät sollte nur von geschultem und qualifiziertem P...

Page 55: ...gies 55 7 Strahlenkontak Achtung Nutzung von Steuerungen oder Einstellungen oder Ausführung von Prozeduren die hier nicht spezifiziert sind kann zu gefährlichem Strahlenkon takt führen Klasse 1 Laserprodukt und Referenzen zu den aktuellsten Lasterstandards ICE 60 825 1 1993 A1 1997 A2 2001 und EN 60825 1 1994 A1 1996 A2 2001 ...

Page 56: ...con una temperatura ambiente superior a la máxima recomendada 55 C 131 F Además para garantizar una circulación de aire adecuada se debe dejar como mínimo un espacio de 8 cm 3 pulgadas alrededor de las aberturas de ventilación No utilizar el equipo ni conectar o desconectar cables durante períodos de actividad de rayos La instalación el reemplazo y el mantenimiento de este equipo estarán a cargo ú...

Page 57: ... Exposición a niveles de radiación peligrosos Precaución el uso de controles o ajustes o la realización de procedimientos distintos de los que aquí se especifican podrían causar exposición a niveles de radiación peligrosos PRODUCTO LÁSER DE CLASE 1 y referencia a las normas de láser más recientes IEC 60825 1 2007 03 y EN 60825 1 2007 ...

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