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

Feature
Storage Acceleration
SR-IOV
NC-SI
High-Performance Accelerations

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 the 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
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