Installing the Napatech SDPK on the IPU

Use this information to compile and install the Napatech SPDK and IPU management tools.

Before you begin

Make sure that you have:

Installed a Napatech IPU in a server. See Installing a Napatech IPU.
Programmed the IPU with an appropriate FPGA image. See Napatech Link-Storage™ Software FPGA images.
Placed the ipu_workload_nvme-<version>-linux.tar.gz package in the /opt/ directory.

About this task

Note: The following prompts are used to indicate which part of the system to run the provided commands on.

soc#: The SoC on the IPU.
host#: The server where the IPU is installed.
target#: The remote server with storage disks.

Procedure

On the IPU, unpack the Napatech Link-Storage™ Software package.
```
soc# cd /opt/
soc# tar zxvf ipu_workload_nvme-<version>-linux.tar.gz
```
where version is the version identifier of the included Napatech package.

On the IPU, build the Napatech SPDK.

soc# cd ipu_workload_nvme/src/ipu_spdk
soc# ./scripts/pkgdep.sh
soc# ./configure
soc# make -j8
soc# test/external_code/bsc_make.sh $PWD

On the IPU, build the IPU management tools.

soc# cd /opt/ipu_workload_nvme/src/
soc# cd ipu_mngmnt_tools/software/csc_lek-0.0.0.5/driver/kmod
soc# make
soc# cd /opt/ipu_workload_nvme/src/ipu_mngmnt_tools/software/management
soc# make