Product Architecture; Main Building Blocks - Mellanox Technologies Grid Director 4700 Installation Manual

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Support for longer and more varied cable options
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Zero down time with no single point of failure and real-time fault notifications
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QSFP ports supporting either copper or optical cables
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Redundant, hot-swappable Management Boards, power supplies, and fans meet stringent
availability requirements
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InfiniBand specification 1.2 compliant
1.3

Product Architecture

The Mellanox Grid Director 4700 is a modular, rack-mountable chassis for a wide range of
applications. Highlights of the Grid Director 4700 architecture include:
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Up to eighteen (18) line boards with 18 QSFP InfiniBand QSFP external interfaces and 18
QSFP InfiniBand links for connectivity between the Line cards and the internal Switch
fabric
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Supports up to nine vertical fabric boards
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Supports one or two redundant hot swappable Management Boards (sMB) for fabric
management and chassis management; when two Management boards are installed, they
support failover capabilities in the event of failure of one of the boards
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Up to 6 power supply units (sPSU-S) with N:1/N:N redundancy
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Front-to-rear air cooling system consisting of a horizontal fan unit (sFU-40H)
and a vertical Fan Unit (sFU-40V) for the Grid Director 4700
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Cabling for InfiniBand, management, and power located at rear of chassis
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Local and remote management and provisioning using CLI (Command Line Interface).
1.3.1

Main Building Blocks

The Grid Director 4700 rear panel has 18 slots in which you can install the Line Boards
(sLB-4018).
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Introduction