General Information
These are the release notes of NVIDIA® ConnectX®-4 onwards adapter cards for NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere 7.0 U3. This driver supports the following uplinks to servers.
|
Version |
OS |
Uplink Speed |
|
4.22.73.1006 |
ESXi 7.0 U3 |
10/25/40/50/100/200GbE |
ESXi 7.0 U3:
Mellanox-nmlx5_4.22.73.1006-1OEM.703.0.0.18644231.zip - Hypervisor bundle for ESXi 7.0 U3 contains the following kernel modules:
nmlx5_core
nmlx5_rdma
MLNX-NATIVE-ESX Rev 4.22.73.1006 supports the following Ethernet HCA and their corresponding firmware version:
|
HCAs |
Minimal Recommended Firmware Rev. |
|
ConnectX-7 |
28.39.1002 |
|
ConnectX-6 Dx |
22.34.1002 |
|
ConnectX-6 Lx |
26.34.1002 |
|
ConnectX-6 |
20.34.1002 |
|
ConnectX-5 / ConnectX-5 Ex |
16.34.1002 |
|
ConnectX-4 Lx |
14.32.1010 |
|
ConnectX-4 |
12.28.2006 |
For the latest firmware versions, visit: https://network.nvidia.com/support/firmware/firmware-downloads/
Guest OS users may choose to work with Inbox Drivers or take latest MLNX_OFED available for download from NVIDIA website.
|
Tested Hypervisors |
HCAs |
Guest Operating System |
|
SR-IOV |
ConnectX-7 ConnectX-6 Dx ConnectX-6 Lx ConnectX-6 ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex ConnectX-4 Lx ConnectX-4 |
Windows Server 2016 DC RedHat 8.0 RedHat 7.5 RedHat 7.3 RedHat 6.10 RedHat 6.3 SLES 12 SP4 SLES 12 SP3 |
|
Paravirtualizeda (Ethernet Only) |
ConnectX-7 ConnectX-6 Dx ConnectX-6 Lx ConnectX-6 ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex ConnectX-4 Lx ConnectX-4 |
Windows Server 2016 DC RedHat 8.0 RedHat 7.5 RedHat 7.3 RedHat 6.10 RedHat 6.3 SLES 12 SP4 SLES 12 SP3 |
a. Paravirtualized RDMA is supported only in Linux Operating Systems and in this release it was tested for RedHat 7.5 only.