Just bought 3 single port Mellanox ConnectX-2 (MHRH19B-XTR)
Been looking up pretty much every thread I can find on the matter as well as downloading every resource I can find.
This thread seems the most up to date.
A few things I am wondering about before I get to work.
1.) People said you can extract the newest firmware out of the WinOF install by looking in your appdata folder. For me this was not true for atleast the newest version 5.50 drivers. I extracted all the files including the additional MSI files that got dumped into the appdata directory and found no .MLX files.
2.) The connect X2 was last listed as supported on legacy drivers back in the 4.x days, but there were reports of newer drivers (4.9x I think) having the .ini entries in there thus it has support but not listed. I am unsure if that still holds true for the newest 5.50 drivers.
3.) I seem to be one of the few with this single port version I assume the same firmware works on it as the dual port version?
4.) Should I even bother if I just want 10gb ethernet and will not be using any of the advanced features like RDMA?
I'll be placing one of these in a Dell R710 running ESXi 6.5
2nd Card will go in my Windows 10 PC
3rd Card will go into a R510 that will become my 2nd NAS, still not sure what will be running on it (Proxmox, ESXi, Baremetal Freenas, or XPC-ng)