Connect problems with ISR 9024 switch
I have a small test lab with 4 Windows 2012 servers and a Citrix Xenserver all system have Connect X2 VPI cards (MHQH19B-XTR) or embedded on MB. Node to node work fine using IPoIB on private subnet...
View ArticleMellanox IS5030 - Broken Firmware
Hi,I was attempting to update firmware on a IS5030 Mellanox IB switch. I mistakenly loaded fw-IS4-rel-7_4_3000-MIS5025Q_A1-A3.bin which is for the unmanaged switch. However to demonstrate my...
View ArticleRe: Re: fan speed on IS5023
Hello,Well, I managed to get the firmware updated and switch reset. A second attempt to update the firmware confirmed that the first attempt was successful. My IS5023 is still going full blast on fans...
View ArticleRe: mlxfwmanager --query returns 'failed to open device'
Hello,Do you have MFT installed and started ? "mst start" if you're running for example : "flint -d /dev/mst/mt4099_pciconf0 q" what do you get ?
View ArticleRe: 40Gbe with QSA
Hi,QSA reduced the port speed from 40GbE to 10GbE.There is no problem to connect LR module to the QSA for long reach in any of the ports Note: the LR4 module is used for QSFP ports and not for SFP...
View Article40Gbe with QSA
Hi, If I split a 40Gbe port with a QSA any issues then using 10Gbe SFP+ optics for 300m or using the LR4 optics with Ethernet (new latest code I know) ? I've just never tested it - I would expect it to...
View ArticleRe: The latest UFM version is 4.0? do we have plan for next release?
Hi,UFM 4.9.0 is already out. usually customers can get it with their dedicated credentials from this link : http://license1.mellanox.com/LMManage/login.aspx Documentation including SDK is there as...
View ArticleHow should I use the ipoibd daemon from Mellanox Openstack Havana repo with...
Hi all,I'm trying to set up Mellanox-Neutron-Havana-Redhat on OpenStack RDO using SR-IOV. I have sucessfully set up the Nova Compute hosts with openstack-neutron-mellanox, eswitchd and mlnxvif driver....
View ArticleTrying to "rate limit" a VF in SR-IOV enabled Mellanox ConnectX-3 HCA
I get an "Operation not supported" message when I try to rate limit a VF, see below: # ip link set eth4 down# ip link set eth2 vf 1 rate 1000RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported# ip link set...
View ArticleNeed help on openstack mellanox quantum plugin
Hi there! I have setup a compute node with openstack networking enabled by the mellanox neutron plugin on RH6.4. I have enabled SR-IOV and created 4 VFs. They all show up in ifconfig. I tried creating...
View ArticleMellanox eSwitchd issue on Openstack Havana nova-compute
Hi all,I have an SR-IOV enabled installation of Openstack Havana (RDO) on CentoOS 6.5 compute nodes. I have followed the docs atMellanox-Neutron-Havana-Redhat - OpenStack to set up Neutron on the...
View ArticleHow to configure Mellanox card to accept breakout cable connection (4x10Gbps)?
Hello, We installed 2 Mellanox NIC on serverA and 2 of them on serverB. Mellanox NIC info: Model: MCX354APSID: MT_1090110019Driver: mlx4_enversion: 2.2-1.0.1 (Jun 13 2014)firmware-version: 2.31.5050...
View ArticleWhen can we expect the OpenStack Cinder iSER patch for Grizzly
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View Article56 GbE over a ConnectX-3 VPI adapter
Hello, I have a pair of ConnectX-3 VPI adapters (MCX354A-FBCT) in Ethernet mode and am attempting to test out 56 GbE connectivity by directly connecting the adapters to one another via an FDR cable...
View ArticleMellanox L2 VMS reference guide is now avaiable on Mellanox.com
Hi all, Mellanox VMS reference guide, offers a set of guidelines for a standard layer 3 based VMS and a standard layer 2 based VMS. Naturally, network designers may find it necessary to apply some...
View ArticleRe: Usability of HP 544FLR-QSFP in non-HP server
After digging further - HP uses a non-standard PCIe bus protocols for their FlexLOM PCIe 8x slots. So only FlexLOM cards work in that slot and FlexLOM cards do not work in standard PCIe slots. You...
View ArticleRe: mlxfwmanager --query returns 'failed to open device'
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm not working on that Appliance any more, so I cant get the answers to your questions ...
View ArticleConnectX MNPH29B-XTC_A1-A2 peak traffic
Hello all!I have a strange problem with Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev a0).I have a few servers with the same cards. All servers with Debian Linux OS.First...
View ArticleRe: ConnectX MNPH29B-XTC_A1-A2 peak traffic
Hi, I looked at the log you sent but I can't think of anything I've seen before. It looks like the kernel is failing on alloc operation which could happen because of various reasons. Initially, I...
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