NVIDIA Firmware Tools (MFT) Documentation

VMware ESXi

mst Synopsis - VMware

mst <command> [switches]

Commands and Switches Description - VMwareMST

mst start

Create special files that represent NVIDIA® devices in directory/dev. Load appropriate modules. After successfully completing this command, the mst driver will be ready to work.

mst stop

Stop NVIDIA® mst driver service and unload the kernel modules.

mst restart

"mst stop" followed by "mst start"

mst server start [-p|--port port]

Start mst server to allow incoming connection. Default port is 23108.

mst server stop

Stop the mst server.

mst status

Print current status of NVIDIA® devices
Options:
-v run with a high verbosity level (print more info on each device)

mst version

Print the version info

Examples of mst Usage - VMware

To print the current status of NVIDIA® devices:

Native

# /opt/mellanox/bin/mst status
MST devices:
------------
mt4099_pciconf0
mt4099_pci_cr0

VMK Linux

# /opt/mellanox/bin/mst status
MST devices:
/dev/mt4099_pciconf0
/dev/mt4099_pci_cr0


To show the devices status with detailed information:

# /opt/mellanox/bin/mst status -vv
PCI devices:
DEVICE_TYPE         MST                PCI        RDMA    NET                           NUMA
ConnectX4(rev:0)    mt4115_pciconf0    03:00.0            net-vmnic4 
ConnectX4(rev:0)    mt4115_pciconf0.1  03:00.1            net-vmnic5
ConnectX3Pro(rev:0) mt4103_pci_cr0     05:00.0            net-vmnic1,netvmnic1000102
ConnectX3Pro(rev:0) mt4103_pciconf0    05:00.0            net-vmnic1,netvmnic1000102

For further information on In-Band and Remote Access, please refer to In-Band Access to Multiple IB Subnets, Accessing Remote InfiniBand Device by Direct Route MADs, and Remote Access to Device by Sockets.

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