NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx based Smart NIC PCIe 4.0 x8 Dual Port 100GbE Open QSFP56

NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Dx Smart NIC PCIe 4.0 x8 Dual Port 100GbE Open QSFP56

The PCIe x16 NVIDIA® ConnectX®-6 Dx Dual-Port 100G network adaptor is a highly secure and advanced smart network interface card (SmartNIC) that accelerates mission critical cloud and data centre applications, including security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage.

ConnectX®-6 Dx provides up to two ports of 100Gb/s.

This SmartNIC features virtual switch (vSwitch) and virtual router (vRouter) hardware accelerations. It also supports a choice of single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) and VirtIO in hardware. By offloading cloud networking workloads, ConnectX-6 Dx frees up CPU cores for business applications.

System Requirements

Windows, RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, VMware, OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED), OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF)

Features

Host Interface

• PCIe Gen 4.0 compatible, 16 lanes

Network Interface

• Dual ports of 10/25/40/50/100 GbE
• Up to 200Gb/s total bandwidth

Enhanced Networking

• Zero-Touch RoCE
• ASAP² Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing™ for SDN and VNF acceleration
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
• VirtIO acceleration
• Overlay network acceleration: VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE
• Programmable flexible parser
• Connection tracking (L4 firewall)
• Flow mirroring, sampling and statistics
• Header rewrite
• Hierarchical QoS
• Stateless TCP offloads
• Hierarchical QoS
• Stateless TCP offloads

Storage Offloads

• Block-level encryption: XTS-AES 256/512-bit key
• NVMe over Fabrics offloads for target machine
• T10 DIF signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic
• Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF

Advanced PPT Timing and Synchronization

• IEEE 1588v2 (any profile)
• PTP hardware clock (PHC) (UTC format)
• Nanosecond-level accuracy
• Line rate hardware timestamp (UTC format)
• PPS in and configurable PPS out
• Time-triggered scheduling
• PTP-based packet pacing
• Time-based SDN acceleration (ASAP2)
• Time-sensitive networking (TSN)
• Dedicated precision timing card option

Management and Control

• NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe—Baseboard Management Controller interface, NCSI over RBT in Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 cards

Remote Boot

• Remote boot over Ethernet
• Remote boot over iSCSI
• UEFI and PXE support for x86 and Arm servers