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3 – Software Installation
Software Installation Requirements
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Future releases will provide support for:
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iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA)
No support is provided for RD.
NOTE: 32 bit OpenFabrics programs using the verb interfaces are not supported
in this InfiniPath release, but will be supported in a future release.
Further information, including the use of MPI, is found in the companion document,
the
InfiniPath Interconnect User Guide . For convenience, some information appears
in both documents.
3.1
Software Installation Overview
InfiniPath and OpenFabrics software installation involves the following steps:
1. Make sure that the InfiniPath adapter installation has been completed according
to the instructions in section 2 .
2. Verify that the Linux kernel software is installed on each node in your cluster.
The required kernels and supported Linux distributions for both InfiniPath and
OpenFabrics are defined below.
See section 3.2 .
3. For each release, download the InfiniPath/OpenFabrics software from the
QLogic web site to a local server directory, and from there install the appropriate
packages on each cluster node as described under
section 3.3 , section 3.4 ,
and section 3.5 . Configure the InfiniPath and OpenFabrics drivers as described
under section 3.8 .
4. Check that all InfiniBand switches are configured. See section 3.17
5. Perform the recommended health checks. See section 3.19 .
6. After installing the InfiniPath and OpenFabrics refer to the InfiniPath
Interconnect User Guide for more information on using the InfiniPath and
OpenFabrics products.
3.2
Software Installation Requirements
Information on supported distributions and kernels and on setting up your
environment are given below.