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1. Mellanox TECHNOLOGIES Mellanox MLNX OS Release Notes for IBM SX90Y3452 Software Ver 3 3 3706 www mellanox com Mellanox Technologies Confidential NOTE THIS HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR TEST SUITE PRODUCT PRODUCT S AND ITS RELATED DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS OF ANY KIND AND SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING THE CUSTOMER IN TESTING APPLICATIONS THAT USE THE PRODUCTS IN DESIGNATED SOLUTIONS THE CUSTOMER S MANUFACTURING TEST ENVIRONMENT HAS NOT MET THE STANDARDS SET BY MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES TO FULLY QUALIFY THE PRODUCTO S AND OR THE SYSTEM USING IT THEREFORE MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT THE PRODUCTS WILL OPERATE WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL MELLANOX BE LIABLE TO CUSTOMER OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PAYMENT FOR PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT S AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF2. SUCH DAMAGE Mellanox TECHNOLOGIES Mellanox Technologies Mellanox Technologies Ltd 350 Oakmead Parkway Suite 100 Beit Mellanox Sunnyvale CA 94085 PO Box 586 Y okneam 20692 U S A Israel www mellanox com www mellanox com Tel 408 970 3400 Tel 972 0 74 723 7200 Fax 408 970 3403 Fax 972 0 4 959 3245 Copyright 2013 Mellanox Technologies All Rights Reserved Mellanox amp Mellanox logo BridgeX amp ConnectX CORE Direct Infini Bridge InfiniHost InfiniScale MLNX OS PhyX SwitchX UFM Virtual Protocol Interconnect and Voltaire are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies Ltd Connect IB FabricIT Mellanox Open Ethernet Mellanox Virtual Modular Switch MetroX M etro DX ScalableHPCTM Unbreakable Link are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies Ltd All other trademarks are property of their respective owners 2 Mellanox Technologies J Mellanox Technologies Confidential Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction sacs orb le RE beer RR ERE PEE erae 4 Chapter 2 Supported Platforms Firmware Cables and Licenses 4 2 1 Supported Switch Systems 4 2 2 Supported CPU Architecture 4 2 3 Supported Firmware 4 2 4 Supported Mezzanine 4 2 5 Supported CPED sacs exe rere oU ERR d te ea 4 2 6 Supported Softwar
3. anox approved cables pdf P When using AOC cables longer than 100m use one VL to achieve full wire speed aa Mellanox Technologies 5 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential 3 Changes and New Features Table 2 IBM SX90Y3452 Changes and New Features Category Description Release 3 3 3706 General Bug fixes Release 3 3 3704 VPD Changes to VPD block 1 capability bits Release 3 3 3702 EHCM Added detailed reasons for failure of CMM upgrade feature EHCM Added fingerprint support for CMM update feature EHCM Image bank represents the active image and image bank 2 represents the non active Image VPD Boot Rom will be reported in image segment 1 WebUI Security enhancements Release 3 3 3500 EHCM Enhancements to software update using CMM feature Release 3 3 3400 EHCM Added fwlImageProtocols OIDs support Release 3 3 3000 General New Linux kernel 2 6 32 WebUI Applied new Apache version f Added temperature critical and warning thresholds to temperature graph Software Management Added support for fetching image from TFTP server using IPv6 U boot Updated u boot memory access optimization Unbreakable Links Added Link Level Retry LLR support for InfiniBand interfaces Modules Added support for the Mellanox LR4 module P N MC2210511 LR4 Added interface range support Network Interfaces By using the interface range configuration mode a range of ports can be
4. e Licenses 5 2 7 Supported Cables 5 Chapter 3 Changes and New Features 6 Chapter 4 Known Issues 8 4 1 General Known Issues 8 4 2 InfiniBand Known Issues 10 Chapter 5 Bug Fixes cuoco soe lARIIE AIR a s a asa sa s ME TATRO 11 Chapter 6 Submitting a Service Request 11 Mellanox Techologies 3 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential 1 Introduction This document is the Mellanox MLNX OS Release Notes for IBM SX90Y3452 MLNX OS is a comprehensive management software solution that provides optimal perfor mance for cluster computing enterprise data centers and cloud computing over Mellanox SwitchX family The fabric management capabilities ensure the highest fabric performance while the chassis management ensures the longest switch up time The MLNX OS documentation package includes the following 3 documents A command reference guide provides general information concerning the MLNX OS command line interface Auser manual provides general information concerning the scope and organization of MLNX OS as well as basic configuration examples Release notes provides information on the supported platforms changes and new fea tures and reports on software known i
5. easily configured with the same parameters SNMP SNMP MIB enhancements General MIBs Entity MIB Entity Sensor MIB Entity State MIB and Private MIB restructuring for InfiniBand systems Release 3 2 0596 WebUI Added support for internal ports in WebUI Chassis Management Added C stability protection Mellanox Technologies 6 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential Table 2 IBM SX90Y3452 Changes and New Features Category Description Configuration Management Removed jump start configuration wizard feature Interfaces Quality enhancement to link initialization System Management Fixed NTP vulnerability issue U boot Updated u boot version Mellanox Technologies 7 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential 4 Known Issues A For any possible errata due to hardware issues please refer to the switch support prod uct page The following table describes MLNX OS known issues in this software release and possible workarounds 4 1 General Known Issues Table 3 General Known Issues Sheet 1 of 2 Index Category Description Possible Workaround l Management Interfaces DHCPv4 v6 VLAN Zeroconf are not supported on IPoIB 2 Management Interfaces When re enabling interface ib0 MTU settings are Manually configure MTU not saved settings after re enabling interface ib0 3 Management Interfaces When modifying the hostname either in the Reboot t
6. he system WebUI or the CLI the modification is not reflected in the Base SM submenu in the WebUI 4 Management Interfaces The CLI command ip default gateway Delete the entry by using interface sets the gateway address to 0 0 0 0 theno ip default gate and prevents the user from adding other gateways way command De Management Interfaces The switch might have an expired HTTPS certifi Generate a new certificate cation by changing the hostname 6 NTP The command show ntp always lists the last con figured NTP server even if it has been deleted This output can be safely ignore 7 Software Management Only one image is allowed to be copied into the system using the image fetch command The user must remove old image files prior to fetching a new one 8 Software Management Upon upgrade if there are more than 4 ACLs all of the ACL configuration is deleted If there are 4 ACLs or less rules with a sequence number larger than 495 are deleted 9 Configuration Manage Loading the wrong system configuration file may ment hang the system For example an attempt to use an SX1016 config uration file on an SX6036 SX6536 SX1035 sys tem may cause the system to hang 10 Configuration Manage After loading a new configuration file please ment reboot the system Otherwise configuration might not be properly applied Mellanox Technologies 8 J Mellanox Technologies Confidentia
7. ing table describes MLNX OS bug fixes in this software release Table 5 Bug Fixes Index Category Description 1 Configuration Manage Binary and text configuration files apply fix ment 2 EHCM Switch reload is added after update activate CMM command run 3 EHCM Image update may not complete successfully if performed using CMM 6 Submitting a Service Request The Mellanox Support Center is at your service for any issues You may access the Warranty Service through the Web Request Form by using the following link http www mellanox com content pages php pg support_index Mellanox Techologies 11 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential
8. l Table 3 General Known Issues Sheet 2 of 2 Index Category Description Possible Workaround 11 Configuration Manage The command set revert factory keep Use the equivalent CMM ment basic keep connect saved is removed command instead 12 Configuration Manage Merging two binary configuration files using the Use the configuration text ment command configuration merge is currently not file Apply option instead supported 13 Logging DROPPED MSG errors may appear during reload shutdown phase These errors can be safely ignored 14 User Management Some RADIUS and TACACS configurations Press the reset button for 15 keep the user locked out of the machine due to seconds and then log in timeout limitation using your local authentica tion Additionally fix the configuration to avoid any future timeout issues I5 User Management Logging into the system as USERID from the Log in again The second Serial Connection results in login failure the first attempt will result is suc attempt cessful login 16 WebUI Only a single WebUI login per host is possible To have multi sessions open several browser simul taneously 17 WebUI Reversing the time clock can result in WebUI Clear the graphs data after graphs corrupted data setting the clock 18 WebUI Enabling disabling HTTPS while connected via Refresh the page or navi HTTP to the WebUI may result in temporary l
9. oss gate back using the of connection to the webpage browser s back button 19 WebUI Switching between binary configuration files when connected to the WebUI using HTTPS might result in the following message being dis played Switched configuration to which was already the active database This message is incorrect and can be safely ignored 20 SNMP ifPhysAddress OID returns the prefix of the Node GUID of the ib0 management 21 SNMP The error Cannot find module MELLANOX MIB can appear in the log when performing roll back to an older MLNX OS version This error can be safely ignored 22 Chassis Management Upon reaching critical thermal threshold SR bit 2 is not set although the system is shut down and SR bit 3 is set instead Mellanox Technologies 9 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential 4 2 InfiniBand Known Issues Table 4 InfiniBand Known Issues Index Category Description Possible Workaround l InfiniBand Interfaces Port hardware speed and width capabilities set tings affect port speed and width admin capabili ties 2 InfiniBand Interfaces Setting the port width to 1x in the WebUI and or CLI is currently not supported 3 InfiniBand Interfaces Clearing the port counters when no SM is running in the subnet may result in error in the log it can be safely ignored Mellanox Technologies 10 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential 5 Bug Fixes The follow
10. ssues as well as bug fixes 2 Supported Platforms Firmware Cables and Licenses 2 4 Supported Switch Systems Table 1 Supported Switch Systems Model Number Description SX90Y3452 32 Port 56Gb s FDR InfiniBand Blade Switch System 2 2 Supported CPU Architecture PPC 460 CPU families 2 3 Supported Firmware SwitchX firmware version 9 2 3002 SwitchX 2 firmware version 9 2 3002 ConnectX 2 firmware version 2 9 1314 and higher ConnectX 3 firmware version 2 11 1250 and higher 2 4 Supported Mezzanine ConnectX 2 Mezzanine P N 90Y3460 MalayaP 2 9 1314 and higher ConnectX 2 Mezzanine P N 90Y3480 MalayaP Net 2 9 1314 and higher ConnectX 3 Mezzanine P N 90Y3488 Merlin 2 30 2010 and higher ConnectX 3 Mezzanine P N 90Y3484 Nevada 2 11 1450 and higher ConnectX 3 Mezzanine P N 90Y3456 MalayaX 2 11 1450 and higher ConnectX 3 Mezzanine P N 90Y3468 MalayaX Net 2 11 1450 and higher 2 5 Supported CPLD 1 0 18 Mellanox Technologies 4 J Mellanox Technologies Confidential 2 6 Supported Software Licenses For the software licenses supported with MLNX OS software please refer to the Licenses section of the Getting Started chapter of the Mellanox MLNX OS User Manual 27 Supported Cables Please refer to the Mellanox Products Approved Cable Lists document for the list of supported cables http www mellanox com related docs user manuals Mell
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