Dell M4001F, M4001Q User Manual

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Contents

Contents 3
Revision History 4
About this Manual 5
Chapter 1 Overview 7

1.1 InfiniBand Connectors 8

1.2 Switch Status Lights 9

1.3 I2C Interface RJ-45 Connector 10

Chapter 2 Installation and Basic Operation 11

2.1 Installation Safety Warnin gs 11

2.2 Mechanical Installation 13

2.2.1 Removing a n Old Switch From the Chassis 13

2.2.2 Removing an I/O Module Blank From the Chassis 14

2.2.3 Installing the Mellanox M4001[F, Q] Switch Into the Dell Chassis 14

2.3 Power Connections and Initial Power On 14

2.4 InfiniBand Cable Installation 14

Chapter 3 Cluster Management and Firmware 16

3.1 Network Management and Clustering Software 16

3.2 Updating Firmware 16

3.2.1 Instructions for Reprogramming Over the InfiniBand Network 16

Chapter 4 Troubleshooting 17
Appendix A Specifications 18
Appendix B EMC Certification Statements 20
Appendix C QSFP Interface 23
Appendix D Avertissements de sécurité d’installation 25
Appendix E Installation - Sicherheitshinweise 27

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Revision History

Table 1 - Revision History Table

Date Revision Description

November 2011 1.0 Initial release

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About this Manual

This manual describes the installation and basic use of the SwitchX M4001F 56 Gb/s, and the
M4001Q 40 Gb/s InfiniBand blade switch I/O modules for the PowerEdge M-Series chassis.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for users and system administrators responsible for installing and setting
up the switch platforms listed above.

The manual assumes familiarity with the Infi niBand® Architecture Specification.

Related Documentation

The documentation set accompanying the Mellanox M4001[F, Q] includes the following:

Table 2 - Reference Documents

InfiniBand Architecture Specification
Volu me 1 Release 1.2.1 and Volume 2
release 1.2.1

Mellanox Firmware Tools (MFT)
User’s Manual
Document # 2329

Online Resources

• Mellanox Technologies Web pages: http://www.mellanox.com

• Dell Support Web pages: http://support.dell.com

Conventions

Throughout this manual, the names M4001F and M4001Q and the terms switch, I/O module, and
IOM are used to describe the M4001F 56 Gb/s, and the M4001Q 40 Gb/s InfiniBand blade switch
I/O modules, unless explicitly indicated otherwise.

The following pictur es a re used throughout this document to indicate inf ormation that is import an t
to the user.

InfiniBand architecture specification descriptions

The MFT (Mellanox Firmwa re Tools) package is a set of firmware tools. The
manual supplied with this package provides an overview of the firmware its
installation and replacem ent. Th e MFT can be down loaded wit h its do cumenta ­tion at:

http://www.mellanox.com > Downloads > Firmware Tools.

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software.

BEWARE! This symbol indicates a situation that can potentially cause personal in jury
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1Overview

The SwitchX M4001F 56 Gb/s, and the M4001Q 40 Gb/s InfiniBand blade switch I/O module for
the PowerEdge M-Series chassis provides a high bandwidth, low latency fabric for Enterprise Data
Centers (EDC), High-Perf ormance Computing (HPC), and Embedded environments. Based on the

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generation InfiniBand switch device (1st Generation SwitchX). This I/O module (IOM) deliv-

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ers up to 56Gb/s at FDR speed and 40 Gb/s at QDR speed full bisectional bandwidth per port.
When used in conju nct ion with ConnectX®-3 InfiniBand dual por t Me zz ani ne I/O cards, clustered
data bases, parallelized applications and transactional services applications these switches will
achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower
cost per operation.

The I/O module comes pre-installed with all necessary firmware, and configured for standard
operation within an InfiniBand fabric, and only requires an InfiniBand compliant Subnet Manager
running from one of the hosts. All that is required for normal operation is to follow the usual pre
cautions for installation and connection from the switch to the HCAs or other switches. Once con­nected, the Subnet Management software automatically configures the switch and begins utilizing
the switch.

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It is recommended that Mellanox OpenFabrics software package be installed on all nodes con­nected to the M4001[F, Q]. The software package provides a subnet manager and network man­agement tools as well as connectivity software for servers and storage, and is available on the
Mellanox web site. See Chapter 3 for more information.

Basic installation, hot -swappi ng component s and hardware main tenanc e is cover ed in “Installation
and Basic Operation” on page 11.

The M4001F and M4001Q switches have a Hot Swap controller and a PSOC Management IC.

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Figure 1: Switch Front Panel and Locking Mechanism

Locking Me chanism

Switch Status Lights

Port LEDs

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1.1 InfiniBand Connectors

This switch has 16 QSFP connectors through the front panel. The remaining 16 interfaces are
through the Midplane Connector out of the back of the switch.

Each of the InfiniBand ports has two LEDs located between the connectors and the I2C interface.
The green LED, when lit, indicates that a valid physical connection to the other system (switch or
HCA port) exists. See

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Figure 2,“Physical and Logical Link Indication LEDs” for more details.

Figure 1 shows the front 16 ports.

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LED Name Connectio n Status

Physical Link - Green Off – No Physical Link

ON – Physical Link

Data Activity - Yellow

Blinking – indicat e s Dat a Transfer
Constant on – indicates Link exists
with no Data Transfer taking place
Off with green LED lit – indicates that
the Subnet Manager may not be running

The IO Module is on and
ready when both the blue
and green LEDs are lit.

This LED can be blue or
amber. A fault is indicated
when the am ber LED is
blinking. See Table 3.

Figure 2: Physical and Logical Link Indication LEDs

1.2 Switch Status Lights

The switch Status lights indicate whether the switch is receiving power from the chassis, and the
state of the switch.

Table 3 - IOM states and LED configurations:

Indication Green Status

Figure 3: Indicator LEDs

LED

Switch Statu s

OFF OFF OFF

ON OFF Boot in Progress

Switch not ready

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