Hi guys
I just got two Mellanox cards from eBay to use those as 10GbE adapters.
However there are two things I don't get.
1. One card shows up as expected with two ports / vmnics. OK the namig of one vmnic is a bit off but at least it's working. Also the card shows some regular MAC addresses.
2. The other card pops up with just a single vmnic and a weird MAC (this is probably normal in the IB world?)
esx2 - MT26418
MHGH29-XTC
esx3 - MT25418
MHGH28-XTC
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------------ ------------- ------- ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:001:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:07 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1 0000:001:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:09 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1000402 0000:006:00.0 mlx4_en Up 10000 Full 00:02:c9:25:85:8a 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX VPI - 10GigE / IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s]
vmnic2 0000:002:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:0b 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic3 0000:002:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 00:24:e8:74:fb:0d 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic4 0000:006:00.0 mlx4_en Down 0 Half 00:02:c9:25:85:89 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT25418 [ConnectX VPI - 10GigE / IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 2.5GT/s]
~ # esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Link Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------ ------------- ------- ---- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:001:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:d4 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic1 0000:001:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:d6 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic2 0000:002:00.0 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:d8 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic3 0000:002:00.1 bnx2 Up 1000 Full 84:2b:2b:07:b7:da 1500 Broadcom Corporation Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T
vmnic4 0000:006:00.0 mlx4_en Up 10000 Full 00:00:00:00:00:01 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT26418 [ConnectX VPI - 10GigE / IB DDR, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s]
~ # esxcli software vib list | grep Mellanox
mft 3.8.0.56-0 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-addr 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-cm 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-core 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-mad 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-sa 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-ib-umad 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-mlx4-core 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-mlx4-en 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-mlx4-ib 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
net-rdma-cm 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
scsi-ib-iser 1.9.10.0-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2015-01-21
However I would like to find out why one card only shows up with a single port, any ideas? I have seen some similar screenshots floating around but no fix.
Some tips would be really appreciated!
Patrick
