Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 56Gigabit Ethernet Card
ConnectX-3 Pro Adapter Silicons with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI), supporting InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity with hardware offload engines to Overlay Networks ("Tunneling"), provide the highest performing and most flexible interconnect solution for PCI Express Gen3 servers used in public and private clouds, Enterprise Data Centers, and High Performance Computing (HPC).
Public and private cloud clustered databases, parallel processing, transactional services, and high-performance embedded I/O applications will achieve significant performance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation. ConnectX-3 Pro with VPI also simplifies system development by serving multiple fabrics with one hardware design.
Virtual Protocol Interconnect
VPI-enabled adapters enable any standard networking, clustering, storage, or management protocol to seamlessly operate over any converged network leveraging a consolidated software stack. With auto-sense capability, each ConnectX-3 Pro VPI port can identify and operate on InfiniBand, Ethernet, or Data Center Bridging (DCB) fabrics. FlexBoot™ provides additional flexibility by enabling servers to boot from remote InfiniBand or LAN storage targets. ConnectX-3 Pro with VPI and FlexBoot simplifies I/O system design and makes it easier for IT managers to deploy infrastructure that meets the challenges of a dynamic data center.
World-Class Performance
Virtualized Overlay Networks -
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud demands that data centers host and serve multiple tenants, each with their own isolated network domain over a shared network infrastructure. To achieve maximum efficiency, data center operators are creating overlay networks that carry traffic from individual Virtual Machines (VMs) in encapsulated formats such as Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) and Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) over a logical "tunnel," thereby decoupling the workload's location from its network address. Overlay Networks architecture introduces an additional layer of packet processing at the hypervisor level, adding and removing protocol headers for the encapsulated traffic. The new encapsulation prevents many of the traditional "offloading" capabilities (e.g. checksum, Time Sharing Option {TSO}) from being performed at the NIC.
ConnectX-3 Pro effectively addresses the increasing demand for an overlay network, enabling superior performance by introducing advanced NVGRE and VXLAN hardware offload engines that enable the traditional offloads to be performed on the encapsulated traffic. With ConnectX-3 Pro, data center operators can decouple the overlay network layer from the physical NIC performance, thus achieving native performance in the new network architecture.
I/O Virtualization - ConnectX-3 Pro SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VMs) within the server. I/O virtualization with ConnectX-3 Pro gives data center managers better server utilization while reducing cost, power, and cable complexity.
- HW Offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN encapsulated traffic
- GPU communication acceleration
- Precision Clock Synchronization
- Application offload
- CPU offload of transport operations
- PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
- Single- and Dual-Port options available
- Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand or 56 Gigabit Ethernet per port
- 1us MPI ping latency
- Virtual Protocol Interconnect
Product Type: 56Gigabit Ethernet Card
Environmentally Friendly: Yes
Environmental Certification: RoHS 2
Product Color: Silver
Country Of Origin: Ireland
Brand Name: Mellanox
Form Factor: Plug-in Card
Manufacturer: Mellanox Technologies Ltd
Product Name: ConnectX-3 Pro 56Gigabit Ethernet Card
Device Supported: Server/Switch
Product Line: ConnectX-3 Pro
Manufacturer Part Number: MT27528A1-FCCF-FV
Manufacturer Website Address: http://www.mellanox.com
Packaged Quantity: 1
Limited Warranty: 1 Year
