Hi everybody,
does anybody have experience with the Melanox driver on the ESX 3.5 Update 1 ?
i have the following problem:
after installation of the driver and enabling it (mgmt-mlx status show all green/OK) i didn´t see any Melanox HBA oder LAN Adapter in the VI Client under configuration.
what´s wrong here ? can anybody help me ?
Hardware environment:
IBM Blade HS21XM with Qlogic QLA2422 and Melanox Infiniband card MT25418.
kind regards
Chris
Hi, maybe I can help.
Can you login into the console OS and run
>lspci
Can you see the HCA?
Did you verify that you have the right firmware version loaded on the cards?
also what does the output of:
esxcfg-nics -l shows?
Hi again,
yes i see the Melanox HBA with lspci.
that was not the problem.
i found out what was wrong:
the installation guide from mellanox doesn´t work for me.
esxcfg-module ib_basic -s "--export-ksyms=linux ib_mlx4=1 net_mlx4=1"
doesn´t work. i had to insert it manually in the mgmt-mlx.conf. further i enabled the BASIC_LOAD=YES
after MGMT-MLX RESTART the Melanox Adapter appears in VirtualCenter.
but now i have the problem with the virtual adapters. how can i configure virtual LAN adapters (e.g. 4 LAN Adapters with 1 GB) ?
the installation guide says that the DualPort Melanox Adapter shown only as one adapter. is this correct ?
kind regards
Chris
Hello,
"esxcfg-module ib_basic -s "--export-ksyms=linux ib_mlx4=1 net_mlx4=1"
doesn´t work. i had to insert it manually in the mgmt-mlx.conf. further i enabled the BASIC_LOAD=YES"
How exactly have your done this? Insert it manually?
Can you copy here your mgmt-mlx.conf ?
Thanks for your help
Best Regards
Nico
Nicofr, what's the problem you encountered?
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