User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Mellanox WinOF VPI User Manual
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Document Revision History
- About this Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Driver Features
- 3 Deploying Windows Server 2012 with SMB Direct
- 4 Driver Configuration
- 5 Performance Tuning
- 6 OpenSM - Subnet Manager
- 7 InfiniBand Fabric
- 7.1 Network Direct Interface
- 7.2 part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port Creation Utility
- 7.3 InfiniBand Fabric Diagnostic Utilities
- 7.4 InfiniBand Fabric Performance Utilities
- 7.4.1 ib_read_bw
- 7.4.2 ib_read_lat
- 7.4.3 ib_send_bw
- 7.4.4 ib_send_lat
- 7.4.5 ib_write_bw
- 7.4.6 ib_write_lat
- 7.4.7 ibv_read_bw
- 7.4.8 ibv_read_lat
- 7.4.9 ibv_send_bw
- 7.4.10 ibv_send_lat
- 7.4.11 ibv_write_bw
- 7.4.12 ibv_write_lat
- 7.4.13 ibaddr
- 7.4.14 ibcacheedit
- 7.4.15 iblinkinfo
- 7.4.16 ibqueryerrors
- 7.4.17 ibsysstat
- 7.4.18 perfquery
- 7.4.19 saquery
- 7.4.20 smpdump
- 8 Software Development Kit
- 9 Troubleshooting
- 10 Documentation
WinOF VPI for Windows User Manual Rev 4.3
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1.3.1 Downloading the Firmware Tools Package
1. Download Mellanox Firmware Tools
Please download the current firmware tools package (MFT) from http://www.mellanox.com > Prod-
ucts > Software/Drivers > InfiniBand & VPI SW/Drivers > Firmware Tools.
The tools package to download is "MFT Software for Windows_x64" for x64 architecture.
2. Install and Run WinMFT
To install the WinMFT package, double click the MSI or run it from the command prompt.
Enter:
3. Check the Device Status
• start/stop mst is automatically done by the tools > C:\Users\herod\Desktop>mst start
• To check device status run > mst status
If no card installation problems occur, the status command should produce the following output:
where device ID will be one of the supported PCI device IDs.
1.3.2 Downloading the Firmware Image of the Adapter Card
• To download the correct card firmware image, please visit
http://www.mellanox.com > Support > Firmware Download
• To identify your adapter card, please visit
http://www.mellanox.com > Support > Firmware Downloads > Identifying Adapter Cards
1.3.3 Updating Adapter Card Firmware
Using a card specific binary firmware image file, enter the following command:
For additional details, please check the MFT user's manual under
http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Adapter IB/VPI SW
Install the WinMFT package from the command line with administrator privileges.
msiexec.exe /i WinMFT_<arch>_<version>.msi
mt<device id>_pciconf0
mt<device id>_pci_cr0
> flint -d mt<device id>_pci_cr0 -i <image_name.bin> burn