Performance
| Server operating systems supported |
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 x64 |
| Linux operating systems supported |
Y |
| Auto-negotiation |
Y |
Ports & interfaces
| Host interface |
PCI-E |
| Internal |
Y |
| Interface |
SFP+ |
Protocols
| Management protocols |
MIB, MIB-II, MIB-II, RMON, RMON 2 |
Additionally
| Transfer rate (Mbps) |
10000 Mbit/s |
| Jumbo Frames support |
Y |
| Wireless technologies |
Wired |
Dual 10GbE SFP+, PCIe Base 3.0
Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN 10/40/56 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NIC) with PCI Express 3.0 deliver high-bandwidth and industry- leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments.
Clustered databases, web infrastructure, and high frequency trading are just a few applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access, real-time response and more users per server. ConnectX-3 EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associ- ated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments.
World-Class Ethernet Performance
RDMA over Converged Ethernet – ConnectX-3 utilizing IBTA RoCE technology provides efficient RDMA services, delivering low-latency and high- performance to bandwidth and latency sensitive applications. With link-level interoperability in existing Ethernet infrastructure, Network Admin- istrators can leverage existing data center fabric management solutions.
Sockets Acceleration – Applications utilizing TCP/UDP/IP transport can achieve industry- leading throughput over 10/40/56GbE. The hardware-based stateless offload and flow steering engines in ConnectX-3 reduce the CPU overhead of IP packet transport, freeing more processor cycles to work on the application. Sockets acceleration software further increases performance for latency sensitive applications.
I/O Virtualization - ConnectX-3 EN provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VM) within the server. ConnectX-3 EN gives data center managers better server utilization and LAN and SAN unification while reducing costs, power, and complexity.
Precision Data Centers – ConnectX-3 EN IEEE 1588 precision time protocol circuitry synchronizes the host clock to the data center master clock for accurate data delivery time stamping and data center SLA measurements. The hardware-based mechanisms ensure high accuracy and low jitter.
Storage Acceleration – A consolidated compute and storage network achieves significant cost-performance advantages over multi-fabric networks. Standard block and file access proto - cols can leverage RDMA for high-performance storage access.
Quality of Service – Resource allocation per application or per VM is provided and protected by the advanced QoS supported by ConnectX-3 EN. Service levels for multiple traffic types can be based on IETF DiffServ or IEEE 802.1p/Q allowing system administrators to prioritize traffic by appli - cation, virtual machine, or protocol. This powerful combination of QoS and prioritization provides the ultimate fine-grained control of traffic – ensuring that applications run smoothly in today’s complex environments.
Software Support ConnectX-3 EN is supported by a full suite of software drivers for Windows, Linux distribu- tions, Ubuntu, VMware and Citrix XenServer. ConnectX-3 EN supports stateless offload and is fully interoperable with standard TCP/UDP/ IP stacks. ConnectX-3 EN supports various management interfaces and has a rich set of configuring and management tools across operating systems.
