NVIDIA ConnectX-6 based Converged NIC PCIe 3.0 x16 Dual Port 100GbE Open QSFP28

NVIDIA ConnectX-6 based Converged NIC PCIe 3.0 x16 Dual Port 100GbE Open QSFP28

NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-4 network controller cards with 100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity provide a high performance and flexible solution for Web 2.0, Cloud, data analytics, database, and storage platforms. 

ConnectX-4 provides an unmatched combination of 100Gb/s bandwidth with dual port, low latency and specific hardware offloads, addressing both today’s and the next generation’s compute and storage data centre demands.

All NVIDIA Mellanox adapter cards are supported by Windows, Linux distributions, VMware, FreeBSD, and Citrix XENServer. ConnectX-4 adapters support Open Fabrics-based RDMA protocols and software and are compatible with configuration and management tools from OEMs and operating system vendors.

System Requirements

• Windows, RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, VMware, Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED), Open Fabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF)
• Available PCI Express x16 slot 

Specification

• 100Gb/s Ethernet per port
• 1/10/25/40/50/56/100 Gb/s speeds
• Single and dual port options available
• T10-DIF signature handover
• CPU offloading of transport operations
• Application offloading
• Mellanox Peer Direct communication acceleration
• Hardware offloads for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated traffic
• End-to-end QoS and congestion control
• Hardware based I/O virtualization
• RoHS compliant
• High performance silicon for applications requiring high bandwidth, low latency and high message rate
• World-class cluster, network, and storage performance
• Smart interconnect for x86, Power, Arm, and GPU based compute and storage platforms
• Cutting-edge performance in virtualized overlay networks NVGRE and GENEVE
• Efficient I/O consolidation, lowering data centre costs and complexity
• Virtualization acceleration
• Power efficiency
• Scalability to tens-of-thousands of nodes