NVIDIA BlueField Management and Initial Provisioning

About This Document

This document defines the NVIDIA-recommended method to manage NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 and NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 networking platforms (DPUs or SuperNICs), reviews BlueField management interfaces, protocols, and capabilities (hardware, firmware, etc.), and explains how to use them to manage the BlueField.

This document also defines the NVIDIA-recommended method for initial provisioning and deploying of BlueField, along with a detailed explanation of the required steps and commands.

Target Audience

This document describes day 1 and 2 operations, and is intended for product managers, CSOs, CTOs, and data center administrators.

Scope

The applicable use case for this documents includes 1-2 BlueField DPUs in North-West connectivity operating in DPU mode and 8 BlueField SuperNICs in East-West connectivity operating in NIC mode.

Technical Support

Customers who purchased NVIDIA products directly from NVIDIA are invited to contact us through the following methods:

• E-mail: enterprisesupport@nvidia.com

• Enterprise Support page: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/support/enterprise

Customers who purchased NVIDIA M-1 Global Support Services, please see your contract for details regarding technical support.

Customers who purchased NVIDIA products through an NVIDIA-approved reseller should first seek assistance through their reseller.

Document Conventions

This document uses angled brackets notation ('<>') to indicate variable parameters that depend on the user's specific setup or configuration which should be replaced accordingly.

The following are variables which make frequent appearances in this document:

            

            
curl -vk -X GET -u root:<password> https://<BF-BMC-IP>/redfish/v1/Systems
        

            

            
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* TLSv1.0 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
...
{
 "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems",
 "@odata.type": "#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
 "Members": [
   {
     "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems/Bluefield"
   }
 ],
 "Members@odata.count": 1,
 "Name": "Computer System Collection"
        

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