Specification
• General
- Mellanox ConnectX®-4 EN dual-port 100Gbps controller
- Compact size low-profile standard form factor
- PCI-E 3.0 x16 interface
- Dual QSFP28 connectors
- Max power consumption: 16.3W
• Host Interface
- PCI-E 3.0x16
- Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X)
• Networking Features
- IEEE 802.2bj, 802.3bm 100 Gigabit Ethernet
- 25G Ethernet Consortium 25, 50 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- IEEE802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
- IEEE 802.3ap based auto-engotiation and KR startup
- IEEE 802.ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
- IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1p VLAN tags and priority
- IEEE802.1Qau (QCN) ?Congestion Notification
- IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
- IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
- IEEE 802.1Qbg
- IEEE 1588v2
- Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
• CPU Offload Features
-
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
- LSO, LRO, checksum offload
- RSS, TSS, HDS, VLAN insertion/stripping. Receive flow
steering
- Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Storage Offloads
-
RAID offload - erasure coding (Reed-Solomon) offload
• Overlay Networks
- Stateless offloads for overlay networks and tunneling protocols
- Hardware offload of encapsulation and decapsulation of NVGRE and VXLAN overlay networks
• Hardware-Based I/O Virtualization
- Single Root IOV
- Multi-function per port
- Address translation and protection
- Multiple queues per virtual machine
- Enhanced QoS for vNICs
- VMware NetQueue support
• Virtualization Features
- SR-IOV: up to 256 Virtual Functions
- SR-IOV: up to 16 Physical Functions per port
- 1K ingress and egress QoS levels
- Guaranteed QoS for VMs
• Operating Systems/Distribution
- RHEL/CentOS
- Windows
- FreeBSD
- VMware
- OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF-2)
• Management Features
- Asset Management features with thermal sensor
- NC-SI for IPMI Support
• Remote Boot
- Remote boot over iSCSI
- PXE and UEFI
• Operating Conditions
- Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
- Storage temperature: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
- Storage humidity: 90% non-condensing relative humidity at 35°C
• Physical Dimensions
- Card PCB dimensions: 16.76cm x 6.89cm (6.6in x 2.71in) (LxW)
- Height of end brackets: standard ?12cm (4.725in), low-profile ?8cm (3.15in)
• Weight
- 116.12g (0.2560lb)
• Supported Platforms
- Supermicro?motherboards with minimum PCI-E 3.0 x16 expansion slot
- Supermicro?server systems with low-profile or full-height PCI-E 3.0 x16 expansion slot
- NC-SI feature is only supported by Supermicro?motherboards with corresponding NC-SI connectors