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Table of Contents

Feature

CPU

Adapter functionality enables reduced CPU overhead leaving more CPU resources available for

Offload

computation tasks.

Open vSwitch (OVS) offload using ASAP

• Flexible match-action flow tables

• Tunneling encapsulation/decapsulation

Quality of

Support for port-based Quality of Service enabling various application requirements for latency

Service

and SLA.

(QoS)

Hardware-

NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and

based I/

protection for virtual machines within the server.

O Virtualiz

ation

Storage

A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant cost-performance advantages

Acceleratio

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

SR-IOV

NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed

isolation and protection for virtual machines (VM) within the server.

High-

• Tag Matching and Rendezvous Offloads

Performan

• Adaptive Routing on Reliable Transport

ce Acceler

• Burst Buffer Offloads for Background Checkpointing

ations

Connection

ConnecX-6 Lx ASAP² connection-tracking hardware offload accelerates L4 firewall performance.

tracking

IPSec

ConnectX-6 Lx adapters offer a range of advanced built-in capabilities that bring infrastructure

Offload (in

security down to every endpoint with unprecedented performance and scalability. ConnectX-6 Lx

selected

offers IPsec inline encryption/decryption acceleration to offload the CPU and run the entire data

OPNs)

path encryption or decryption in the NIC hardware while maintaining line rate.

Secure

ConnectX-6 Lx delivers supply chain protection with hardware Root-of-Trust (RoT) for Secure Boot

Boot

as well as Secure Firmware Update using RSA cryptography and cloning protection,

(Hardware

via a device-unique key, to guarantee firmware authenticity

Root Of

Trust)