Verifying Installation of Mellanox InfiniBand Driver

Do the following to verify that the Mellanox InfiniBand driver for the VMware vSphere ESXi host was installed:

  1. From the ESXi system’s direct console (DCUI), access the main screen, and then press Alt+F1 to open a virtual console window.

  2. Log in as root.

  3. Enter the following ESXCLI command:

    #> esxcli software vib list | grep Mellanox

    If the driver was successfully installed, results similar to the following are displayed:

    net-ib-cm1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-ib-core1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-ib-ipoib1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-ib-mad1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-ib-sa1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-ib-umad1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-mlx4-core1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
net-mlx4-ib1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06
scsi-ib-srp1.8.2.4-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Mellanox PartnerSupported 2014-03-06