Operating Systems/Distributions - Nvidia ConnectX-4 Lx User Manual

Feature
Storage Acceleration
SR-IOV
NC-SI
High-Performance Accelerations
UEFI
Secure Firmware

Operating Systems/Distributions

• RHEL/CentOS
• Windows
• FreeBSD
• VMware
• OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
• OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF-2)
A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant
cost-performance advantages over multi-fabric networks. Standard
block and file access protocols can leverage RDMA for high-
performance storage access.
• NVMe over Fabric offloads for target machine
ConnectX-4 Lx SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter
resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual
machines (VM) within the server.
The adapter supports a Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-
SI), MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe - Baseboard Management
Controller interface.
• Tag Matching and Rendezvous Offloads
• Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport
• Burst Buffer Offloads for Background Checkpointing
UEFI is a standard firmware interface designed to replace BIOS.
NVIDIA UEFI Network driver allows boot over network via PXE
(Preboot eXecution Environment). This network driver allows remote
boot over InfiniBand or Ethernet, or Boot over iSCSI (Bo-iSCSI) in UEFI
mode, and also supports the SecureBoot standard. The UEFI Network
driver allows IT managers the flexibility to deploy servers with a
single adapter card into InfiniBand or Ethernet networks while also
enabling booting from LAN or remote storage targets. In addition to
boot capabilities, NVIDIA UEFI Network driver provides firmware
management and diagnostic protocols compliant with the UEFI
specification.
For further information, refer to the
Manual.
Supported in MCX4111A-ACUT, MCX4121A-ACUT and MCX4431A-
GCUN.
A "Secure firmware update" is the ability of a device to verify digital
signatures of new firmware binaries, in order to assure that only
officially approved versions can be installed from the host, the
network or a Board Management Controller (BMC). The firmware of
devices with "secure firmware update" functionality (secure FW),
restricts access to specific commands and registers that can be used
to modify the firmware binary image on the flash, as well as
commands that can jeopardize security in general.
For further information, refer to the
Supported in MCX4121A-ACST.
Description
NVIDIA PreBoot Drivers User
MFT User Manual.
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