CentOS 7.6 production clean install - InfiniBand Mellanox

[roberto0610 (Roberto Ocampo)]

I have a clean install of CentOs 7.6 x64.
System has 32GB RAM, Intel i7 CPU,
Adaptec RAID10 16x4TB Hard Drives
Mellanox Connectx-3 with Dual 40Gbit port and MFT drivers installed.

Since the driver can’t be installed into the original RockStor distro.
I wonder if I there is a way to install RockStor on my current CentOS clean install.

Any one that can help?

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@roberto0610 Hello again.

I have partly addressed this issue in my reply to your prior post re this 40Gbit network port issue:

InifiBand 40GB Network -Mellanox MLNX_OFED_LINUX

we can’t feasably recommend the default CentOS kernel and btrfs progs yet you may be in a position where your currently required driver is only available for set kernels. Do they offer a driver that can be compiled against a given kernel version? If so then you could try that option as it will then be able to compile against the given Rockstor kernel.

Note however that we use an unmodified elrepo kernel so that might help with your explorations of your conundrum.

Hope that helps.