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Introduction
This is the user guide for NVIDIA® MetroX®-3 XC product family. This document contains the
complete product overview, installation and initialization instructions, and product specifications.
This document is preliminary and subject to change.
Product Overview
The NVIDIA® MetroX®-3 XC (Xternal Connect) long-haul system seamlessly and securely extends the
reach of the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking platform, providing high data throughput, In-
Network Computing, and native remote direct-memory access (RDMA) communications. Enhancing
data security, MetroX-3 XC provides encrypted connectivity over long distances and dense
wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) infrastructures. MetroX-3 XC can extend the reach of
InfiniBand up to 40 kilometers, enabling connectivity between remote data centers, from edge
infrastructures to data centers, or between data centers and remote storage infrastructures for high
availability and disaster recovery.
MetroX-3 XC guarantees high-performance, high-volume data sharing. Users can easily migrate
application jobs from one InfiniBand-based data center to another or combine the compute power
of multiple remote data centers together for higher overall performance and scalability. MetroX-3
XC is designed for today's business continuity and simplified disaster recovery. It comes as an
appliance with four ports: Two provide connectivity to the local InfiniBand network; the other two
provide long-haul connectivity into a DWDM infrastructure. In addition to enabling data center
expansion, disaster recovery, data mirroring, and campus connectivity, select models of MetroX-3 XC
systems support long-haul security by encrypting the transmitted data.
The MetroX-3 XC system comes with built-in chassis management (MLNX-XC) software, including
administrative tools to manage firmware, power supplies, fans, ports, and other system interfaces.
The MetroX-3 XC software's GUI-based web management provides full alarm, event history,
activities log, and performance monitoring for all optical modules.
NVIDIA MetroX-3 XC Highlights
For a list of NVIDIA MetroX-3 XC highlights, refer to
the system's
datasheet.
Main System Components
The NVIDIA MetroX-3 XC system populate the following components:
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