Operating Systems/Distributions; Connectivity - Mellanox Technologies ConnectX-5 Ex User Manual

Table 7 - Features
Quality of Service (QoS)
Hardware-based I/O
Virtualization
Storage Acceleration
SR-IOV
NC-SI
High-Performance
Accelerations
a. This section describes hardware features and capabilities. Please refer to the driver release notes for feature availabil-
ity. See
1.4

Operating Systems/Distributions

• RHEL/CentOS
• Windows
• FreeBSD
• VMware
• OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
• OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF-2)
1.5

Connectivity

• Interoperable with 1/10/25/40/50/100 Gb/s Ethernet switches
• Passive copper cable with ESD protection
• Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
Rev 1.7
a
Support for port-based Quality of Service enabling various application require-
ments for latency and SLA.
ConnectX-5 provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and
protection for virtual machines within the server.
A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant cost-perfor-
mance 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
• Erasure Coding
• T10-DIF Signature Handover
ConnectX-5 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 inter-
face.
• Tag Matching and Rendezvous Offloads
• Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport
• Burst Buffer Offloads for Background Checkpointing
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