General Information
These are the release notes of NVIDIA® ConnectX®-4 onwards adapter cards for NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere 6.7. This driver supports the following uplinks to servers.
|
Version |
OS |
Uplink Speed |
|
4.17.71.1 |
ESXi 6.7, ESXi 6.7 U1 |
10/25/40/50/100bE |
ESXi 6.7:
Mellanox-nmlx5_4.17.71.1-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922.zip - Hypervisor bundle for ESXi 6.7 contains the following kernel modules:
nmlx5_core
nmlx5_rdma
MLNX-NATIVE-ESX Rev 4.17.71.1 supports the following Mellanox Ethernet HCA and their corresponding firmware version:
|
HCAs |
Minimal Recommended Firmware Rev. |
|
ConnectX-4 |
12.28.2006 |
|
ConnectX-4 Lx |
14.29.1016 |
|
ConnectX-5 / ConnectX-5 Ex |
16.29.1016 |
|
ConnectX-6 |
20.29.1016 |
|
ConnectX-6 Dx |
22.29.1016 |
|
ConnectX-6 Lx |
26.29.1016 |
For the latest firmware versions, visit: https://www.mellanox.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-4 ConnectX-4 Lx ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex ConnectX-6 ConnectX-6 Dx ConnectX-6 Lx |
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-4 ConnectX-4 Lx ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex ConnectX-6 ConnectX-6 Dx ConnectX-6 Lx |
Windows Server 2016 DC |
a. Paravirtualized RDMA is supported only in Linux Operating Systems and in this release it was tested for RedHat 7.5 only.