5 Software installation
5.4 Software updates
Running the VCA Setup procedure will alter that IP address 192.168.123.xxx, where xxx are
the last 8 bits of the chosen IP address for
eth2
. For example, if the static IP address is
172.16.0.
214
, the InfiniBand address will be set to 192.168.123.
214
.
InfiniBand is only used for internal communication between the Iray instances on different
nodes and does not need to be routed to any other network.
5.4
Software updates
This section describes how to upgrade an existing installation and how to find and install
new software.
Note:
1 For updates and installations, the Quadro VCA must be connected to the Internet.
2 When upgrading the VCA Manager on multiple Quadro VCAs (cluster), the VCA
Manager has to be shutdown before upgrading. It can be shutdown from the VCA
Manager tools menu.
3 If you use multiple VCAs in a rack, each VCA has to be updated individually.
5.4.1
Listing currently installed packages
To display a list of currently installed packages, run:
sudo yum --disablerepo="*local*" list installed "nvidia-vca*"
5.4.2
Updating an existing installation
Note:
•
For Iray, the latest version number is always incremented if a new version is
incompatible with older versions due to client-server protocol changes.
•
Incompatible versions are not installed as an upgrade, but require a new install
operation.
1 Login to the system with the
iray
Linux account and run the
yum
package management
utility.
sudo yum check-update "nvidia*"
2 To upgrade your complete installation, run:
sudo yum upgrade "nvidia*"
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