Dell 0K6V3V manual

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    www .mellanox.com Dell and the Dell logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. ConnectX ® -3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual 0J05YT , 0K6V3V Rev 1.0[...]

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    Mellanox T echnologies 350 Oakmead Parkway Suite 100 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 U.S.A. www .mellanox.com T el: (408) 970-3400 Fax: (408) 970-3403 Mellanox T echnologies, Ltd. PO Box 586 Hermon Building Y okneam 20692 Israel T el: +972-4-909-7200 Fax: +972-4-959-3245 © Copyright 2012. Mellanox Technologies. All rights reserved. Mellanox®, BridgeX®, Conn[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 3 T able of Contents Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 4 List of T ables Table 1: Revision History Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Table 2: Documents List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Table 3: ConnectX-3 Me[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 5 List of Figures Figure 1: 0J05YT Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0 Figure 2: Board Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 6 Revision History This document was first printed on February 14, 2012 T able 1 - Revision History T able Date Rev Comments/Changes February 2012 1.0 Initial Release .[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 7 About this Manual This User Manual describes ConnectX®-3 Dual QSFP Port mezzanine card for the Dell Blade Servers. It provides details as to the interfaces of the board, specifications, required software and firmware for operating the cards[...]

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    Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 8[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 9 1 Overview This document is a User Manual for the Mellanox T echnologies ConnectX®-3 40Gb/s and 56Gb/ s InfiniBand dual-port mezzanine cards for the Dell Blade Servers. The cards described in this manual have the following main features: ?[...]

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    Overview Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 10 Figure 1: 0J05YT Label Figure 2: Board Label Figure 3: 0K6V3V Label Figure 4: Board Label[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 11 2 Card Interfaces 2.1 I/O Interfaces Each mezzanine card includes the following interfaces: • PCI Express (PCIe) •I 2 C-compatible connector (for debug) Figure 5: 0J05YT/0K6V3V Card 2.1.1 InfiniBand Interface The ConnectX®-3 mezzanine [...]

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    Card Interfaces Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 12 2.1.2 PCI Express Interface The ConnectX®-3 mezzanine cards support PCI Express 3.0 (1.1 and 2.0 compatible) . The device can be either a master initiating the PCI Express bus operations or a slave responding to PCI bus operations. 2.1.3 I 2 C-compatible Interface A three-pin header on the mezzanine[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 13 A jumper inserted into the drill on each adapter card indicates to the device whether an on-board Flash device is to be used or not. T able 4 provides information on this jumper . T able 4 - Jumper Configuration Description Option Card Defa[...]

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    Card Interfaces Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 14 59 SerialNumber OO0J05YTMMM MMYMDSSSS %STR_SPC “00..00XXXX..XX” 79 VPD Keyword V0 STR Misc Information 81 Length 0x15 82 Data VPI QDR SFF mezz STR_SPC 103 VPD Keyword RV STR 105 Length 0x1 106 Data 0,105 %CS0 107 Large Resource T ype VPD-W T ag (0x11) 0x91 108 Length [7:0] LSB 0x91 109 Length [15[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 15 2050 Length 0xfd 2051 Data STR_ZERO Reserved (0x00) 2304 VPD Keyword RW STR Remaining read/write area 2306 Length 0xfd 2307 Data STR_ZERO Reserved (0x00) 2560 VPD Keyword RW STR Remaining read/write area 2562 Length 0xfd 2563 Data STR_ZERO [...]

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    Card Interfaces Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 16 53 Revision RV %STR PCB revision 56 VPD Keyword SN STR Serial Number 58 Length 0x14 59 SerialNumber OO0K6V3VMMM MMYMDSSSS %STR_SPC “00..00XXXX..XX” 79 VPD Keyword V0 STR Misc Information 81 Length 0x11 82 Data VPI FDR SFF mezz STR_SPC 99 VPD Keyword RV STR 101 Length 0x1 102 Data 0,101 %CS0 103 L[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 17 1794 Length 0xfd 1795 Data STR_ZERO Reserved (0x00) 2048 VPD Keyword RW STR Remaining read/write area 2050 Length 0xfd 2051 Data STR_ZERO Reserved (0x00) 2304 VPD Keyword RW STR Remaining read/write area 2306 Length 0xfd 2307 Data STR_ZERO [...]

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    Card Installation Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 18 3 Card Installation 3.1 Hardware RequirementsTBD Before installing the mezzanine card, make sure that the system meets the hardware and software requirements listed in T able 7 - Jumper Configuration Requirement Description Hardware Used with Dell Blade Servers Software Operating Sys- tems/Distribu[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 19 Use the documentation supplied with the Dell Blade Servers to remove and replace the blade from the chassis. The card shown below has grounding clips that must come in contact with the chassis after the card is installed. Figure 7: Groundin[...]

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    DIMMS can be hot. Allow sufficient time for the blade components to cool before starting this procedure. Card Installation Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 20 1. Remove the blade from the chassis. 2. Remove the cover from the blade. 3. Open the retaining clip. The card can be placed in either of the two available slots. 4. Expose the socket to be used[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 21 Figure 10: Remove the Cover Hold the mezzanine card by the edges only . Line up the mezzanine card so that the pins of the mezzanine card are over the sockets in the blade server . 5. Plug the card into the socket by placing your thumb over[...]

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    Card Installation Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 22 Figure 12: Single Card in Slot C Figure 13: T wo Cards Installed 7. Replace the blade server cover . 8. Replace the blade server into the chassis[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 23 3.3 Safety W arnings 1. Installation Instructions Read all installation instructions before connecting the equipment to the power source. 2. Over T emperature This equipment should not be operated in an area with an ambient temperature exce[...]

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    Driver Software and Firmware Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 24 4 Driver Software and Firmware 4.1 Driver Software 4.1.1 Linux For Linux, download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software package available via the Mellanox web site at: http://www .mellanox.com => Products => Soft- ware/Drivers => Infiniband [...]

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    Rate: 56 Base lid: 8 LMC: 0 SM lid: 12 Capability mask: 0x02514868 Port GUID: 0x0002c903002fefe2 Link layer: InfiniBand ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 25 Check the OFED version T o get the version of the running Mellanox OFED/BXOFED, run the following command: T r oubleshoo[...]

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    Driver Software and Firmware Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 26 Figure 14: Device Manager (example) Note: If the cards are connected to a managed switch, there is no need to run openSM. Only one OpenSM should run per subnet.In InfiniBand interfaces, OpenSM is installed as a disabled W indows service. T o enable it, enter at the command line: > sc [...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 27 number . Please contact Mellanox System Support if you cannot find the firmware binary for your mezzanine card. The following steps describe how to retrieve the PSID (firmware identification) and programmed firmware version of your mezzanin[...]

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    Driver Software and Firmware Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 28 Figure 15: Support Download Assistant 3. If a newer firmware version exists for your mezzanine card, update the firmware as follows: a. Download the firmware image zip file from the Download Center (see Step 2a above) b. Unzip the firmware image c. Burn the firmware image. Enter: d. Rebo[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 29 Appendix A: Specifications A.1 Board Mechanical Drawing and Dimensions The ConnectX®-3 mezzanine card mechanical drawing is depicted in Figure 16. All dimensions are in millimeters. All the mechanical tolerances are +/- 0.1mm Figure 16: Me[...]

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    Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 30 A.2 Specifications T able 8 - ConnectX-3 0J05YT/0K6V3V Specifications T able Physical Size: 3.1 1in. x3.46 in. (78.91mm X 88mm) Protocol Support InfiniBand: IBT A v1.2.1 QDR (10Gb/s per lane) or FDR (14.0625Gb/s per lane) port Data Rate: Up to 56Gb/s FDR– InfiniBand PCI Express Gen3: 3.0 SERDES @ 8.0 GT/s (1.1 and[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 31 Appendix B: A vertissements de sécurité d’installation (French) 1. Instructions d’installation Lisez toutes les instructions d’installation avant de brancher le matériel à la source d’alimentation électrique. 2. T empératur e [...]

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    Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 32 Appendix C: Installation - Sicherheitshinweise (German) 1. Installationsanleitungen Lesen Sie alle Installationsanleitungen, bevor Sie das Gerät an die Stromvers- orgung anschließen. 2. Übertemperatur Dieses Gerät sollte nicht in einem Bereich mit einer Umgebungstemperatur über der maximal empfohlenen T emperat[...]

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    ConnectX®-3 Dual Port 40Gb/s and 56Gb/s Mezzanine Card for Dell User Manual Rev 1.0 Mellanox Technologies 33 Appendix D: Advertencias de seguridad para la instalación (W arnings in Spanish) 1. Instrucciones de instalación Antes de conectar el equipo a la fuente de alimentación, leer todas las instrucciones de instalación. 2. Sobrecalentamiento[...]