HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand HP PCIe 2-port 4X QDR Fabric Adapter Installation

1 HP PCIe 2-port 4X QDR Fabric Adapter Installation

This document gives installation information for the HP Fabric Clustering System Host Channel Adapter (HCA) for InfiniBand™, AT083A PCIe Adapter with 2 (two) 4X copper or fiber interfaces.

NOTE: The AT083A card is NOT supported on PA systems.

The AT083A product is for use in high-performance technical computing clusters and in database clusters.

Thank you for purchasing HP I/O Products If you are installing a Host Channel Adapter as an add-in device, please review this document before installation.

All product documentation, including an installation guide, release notes, as well as information on supported servers, HP-UX versions, drivers, and patches, is available online at:

http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs and select HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand.

HP Fabric Clustering System Installation Prerequisites

NOTE: The latest copy of this document can be found at:

http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs within the HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand area.

Before installing the HP Fabric Clustering System, ensure that the following hardware and software prerequisites are met:

•HP requires all systems in the fabric to use both the same HP-UX OS software version, and the same HP-UX Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand software version, such as version B.11.31.1103.

•HP requires all systems in the fabric to use the same bundle, IB4X-00.

•The AT083A card has been certified on 36 port QDR switch with firmware version 7.2.0.

•Check the IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand Release Notes for known problems, required patches, or other information needed for installation, available at:

http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs in the HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand section.

The latest switch firmware and is available online at: http://support.hp.com

1.Select Software and Driver downloads.

2.Enter your product name.

3.Click the double arrow.

•Confirm that the HP Fabric adapter and software is supported on the HP server and IO slot chosen; see HP Fabric Clustering System Support Matrix, available at:

http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs in the HP Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand section.

•Each AT083A Host Channel Adapter card requires 512 MB host memory in supported servers.

•Determine where the switch is to be installed and which servers are to have an HCA installed.

•To use the Internet Protocol over InfiniBand (IPoIB) protocol, see “Internet Protocol over InfiniBand (IPoIB)” (page 8).

•The installed version of IP Filter must be higher than “B9901AA A.03.05.06 HP IPFilter 3.5alpha5”.

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