While trying to cross flash my CX354A I think I disabled the second port on the card by flashing the single port firmware. When I run '/opt/mellanox/bin/mlxfwmanager' on my esxi server I only get 'Device #1' and before the flash, on the original FW, I got Device #1 and #2'.
Any suggestions on how to flash the dual port version of the generic FW? I cant make out what FW I should use as I tried fw-ConnectX3-rel-2_42_5000-MCX354A-QCB_Ax-FlexBoot-3.4.752.bin which I thought was the two port FW but esx only has one device listed after I flashed it. Is it the FCB or the QCB version of the FW?
The card is a 'Mellanox CX354A ConnectX-3 QDR QSFP+ 40+10 Dual Port Server HBA 050-0050-02' from ebay.
Thanks.
Running mlxfwmanger
esx mellanox nic8 down but 40gbe vmnic1000802 up.
flint query before flash:
Any suggestions on how to flash the dual port version of the generic FW? I cant make out what FW I should use as I tried fw-ConnectX3-rel-2_42_5000-MCX354A-QCB_Ax-FlexBoot-3.4.752.bin which I thought was the two port FW but esx only has one device listed after I flashed it. Is it the FCB or the QCB version of the FW?
The card is a 'Mellanox CX354A ConnectX-3 QDR QSFP+ 40+10 Dual Port Server HBA 050-0050-02' from ebay.
Thanks.
Running mlxfwmanger
Code:
[root@esx:~] /opt/mellanox/bin/mlxfwmanager
Querying Mellanox devices firmware ...
Device #1:
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Device Type: ConnectX3
Part Number: MCX354A-FCB_A2-A5
Description: ConnectX-3 VPI adapter card; dual-port QSFP; FDR IB (56Gb/s) and 40GigE; PCIe3.0 x8 8GT/s; RoHS R6
PSID: MT_1090120019
PCI Device Name: mt4099_pci_cr0
Port1 MAC: e41d2d4d5d61
Port2 MAC: e41d2d4d5d62
Versions: Current Available
FW 2.42.5000 N/A
PXE 3.4.0752 N/A
Status: No matching image found
esx mellanox nic8 down but 40gbe vmnic1000802 up.
Code:
[root@dell-r730:~] esxcli network nic list
Name PCI Device Driver Admin Status Link Status Speed Duplex MAC Address MTU Description
------------ ------------ -------- ------------ ----------- ----- ------ ----------------- ---- -------------------------------------------------------
vmnic0 0000:01:00.0 ntg3 Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic1 0000:01:00.1 ntg3 Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic1000802 0000:86:00.0 nmlx4_en Up Up 40000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
vmnic2 0000:02:00.0 ntg3 Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic3 0000:02:00.1 ntg3 Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet
vmnic4 0000:83:00.0 igb Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic5 0000:83:00.1 igb Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic6 0000:84:00.0 igb Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic7 0000:84:00.1 igb Up Up 1000 Full 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection
vmnic8 0000:86:00.0 nmlx4_en Up Down 0 Half 00.00.00.00.00.00 1500 Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Code:
Image type: FS2
FW Version: 2.40.5030
FW Release Date: 4.1.2017
MIC Version: 2.0.0
Config Sectors: 1
PRS Name: cx3-1_MCX354A_qdr.prs
Product Version: 02.40.50.30
Rom Info: type=PXE version=3.4.746
Device ID: 4099
Description: Node Port1 Port2 Sys image
GUIDs: e41xxxxxx60 e41xxxxx61 e41xxxxxxxxx62 e41xxxxxxxxx63
MACs: e41d2d4d5d61 e41d2d4d5d62
VSD:
PSID: ISL1090110018
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