I ordered a few Mellanox ConnectX2 ethernet cards off ebay a while ago (MNPA19-XTR) and have been using them for straight ethernet for a while now and they work fine.
With the release of Windows 2016, I'm playing with S2D and am trying to get these cards to work in an RDMA configuration. At the moment they detect as "RDMA capable":
but they dont seem to show up as RDMA capable from an SMB perspective (requirement for RDMA on S2D):
I believe this may be due to the firmware revision on the card (currently 2.9.1200) needing to be upgraded to at least 2.9.8350, however according to Mellanox's dirver page, the ConnectX2 EN only goes up to 2.9.1200 (my current rev).
Does anyone know if these cards can be forcibly flashed with newer firmwares? I found this post on STH, but it seems to be specifically for ConnectX2 Infiniband cards.
Custom Firmware for Mellanox OEM Infiniband Cards - WS2012 RDMA
With the release of Windows 2016, I'm playing with S2D and am trying to get these cards to work in an RDMA configuration. At the moment they detect as "RDMA capable":
Code:
PS C:\> Get-NetAdapterRdma
Name InterfaceDescription Enabled
---- -------------------- -------
RDMA1 Mellanox ConnectX-2 Ethernet Adapter True
Code:
PS C:\> Get-SmbServerNetworkInterface
Scope Name Interface Index RSS Capable RDMA Capable Speed IpAddress
---------- --------------- ----------- ------------ ----- ---------
<SNIP>
FE80::DDF7:9F14:3280:5780 7 True False 10 Gbps 10.91.255.2
Does anyone know if these cards can be forcibly flashed with newer firmwares? I found this post on STH, but it seems to be specifically for ConnectX2 Infiniband cards.
Custom Firmware for Mellanox OEM Infiniband Cards - WS2012 RDMA