Mellanox Technologies MCX4411A-ACAN, User Manual

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Driver Installation
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4.3.3 Removing Previous Mellanox Driver
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To remove all the drivers:
1. Log into the ESXi server with root permissions.
2. List the existing ConnectX-4 Lx NATIVE ESX driver modules. (See
4. in
Installing
VMware on page 52
)
3. Remove each module.
4. Reboot the server.
4.3.4 Loading/Unloading Driver Kernel Modules
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To unload the driver:
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To load the driver:
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To restart the driver:
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)