Products Overview

10GbE

Until now, 10GbE has been out of reach for many data centers due to its cost, low density and high power consumption. The new solutions from Mellanox remove these limitations and for the first time deliver low-cost 10GbE connectivity. Lenovo Ethernet powered by Mellanox enables your applications to reach new heights without breaking your budget!
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40GbE

Mellanox end-to-end 40GbE solutions deliver high bandwidth to data hungry applications along with low end-to-end latency enabling data centers to operate with high performance and efficiency for a better end user experience and infrastructure ROI. SwitchX® and ConnectX® solutions also give IT managers flexibility in how they deploy higher bandwidth to the servers, providing simple upgrade paths to 40GbE.
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InfiniBand / VPI

VPI flexibility enables any standard networking, clustering, storage, and management protocol to seamlessly operate over any converged network leveraging a consolidated software stack. Each port can operate on InfiniBand, Ethernet, or Data Center Bridging (DCB) fabrics, and supports Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB) and Fibre Channel over InfiniBand (FCoIB) as well as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). VPI simplifies I/O system design and makes it easier for IT managers to deploy infrastructure that meets the challenges of a dynamic data center.
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Switches

Mellanox's family of switches is designed for performance, serviceability, energy savings and high-availability. These switches are optimized for fitting into industry-standard racks and for scale-out computing solutions from industry leaders. These switches allow IT managers to build the most cost-effective and scalable switch fabrics ranging from small clusters up to 10's-of-thousands of nodes, and can carry converged traffic with the combination of assured bandwidth and granular quality of service ensuring the highest productivity.
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Product Highlights

Ethernet

IEEE Std 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
IEEE Std 802.3x Pause
IEEE 802.1Q, .1p VLAN tags and priority
IEEE Std 802.3Qau Congestion Notification
IEEE P802.1Qbb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
Multicast
Jumbo frame support (9KB)
128 MAC/VLAN addresses per port

TCP/UDP/IP Stateless Offload

TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload
TCP Large Send (< 64KB) or Giant Send (64KB-16MB) Offload for segmentation
Receive Side Scaling (RSS) up to 32 queues
Line rate packet filtering

Additional CPU Offloads

RDMA over Converged Ethernet
Traffic steering across multiple cores
Intelligent interrupt coalescence

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BENEFITS

40 GbE connectivity for servers and storage
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

KEY FEATURES

Dual 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports
PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
Low Latency RDMA over Ethernet
Data Center Bridging support
TCP/IP stateless offloads in hardware
Traffic steering across multiple cores
Intelligent interrupt coalescence
Advanced Quality of Service
RoHS-R6

Feature Summary
ETHERNET

IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
IEEE 802.1Q, .1p VLAN tags and priority
IEEE 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
IEEE 802.1Qbb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
IEEE 1588 Precision Clock Synchronization
Jumbo frame support
128 MAC/VLAN addresses per port

ADDITIONAL CPU OFFLOADS

RDMA over Converged Ethernet
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
Intelligent interrupt coalescence

Compatibility
PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE

PCIe Base 3.0 compliant, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate x8
Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1
Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

CONNECTIVITY

Interoperable with 40GbE Ethernet switches.

MANAGEMENT AND TOOLS

MIB, MIB-II, MIB-II Extensions, RMON, RMON 2
Configuration and diagnostic tools

OPERATING SYSTEMS/DISTRIBUTIONS = Validate with IBM Matrix

Citrix XenServer 6.1
Novell SLES, 11sp1, 11sp2 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux , 5.8 - 5.11, 6.1 - 6.4 (RHEL), Fedora, and other Linux distributions
Windows Server 2008/2012
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
OpenFabrics Windows Distribution (WinOF)
Ubuntu 12.04
VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x

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INFINIBAND

IBTA Specification 1.2.1 compliant
Hardware-based congestion control
16 million I/O channels
256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 1Gbyte messages

ENHANCED INFINIBAND

Hardware-based reliable transport
Collective operations offloads
GPU communication acceleration
Hardware-based reliable multicast
Extended Reliable Connected transport
Enhanced Atomic operations

ETHERNET

IEEE Std 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE Std 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE Std 802.3ad Link Aggregation and Failover
IEEE Std 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
IEEE Std 802.1Q, .1p VLAN tags and priority
IEEE Std 802.1Qau Congestion Notification
IEEE P802.1Qaz D0.2 ETS
IEEE P802.1Qbb D1.0 Priority-based Flow Control
Jumbo frame support (9600B)

ADDITIONAL CPU OFFLOADS

RDMA over Converged Ethernet
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
Intelligent interrupt coalescence

FLEXBOOT™ TECHNOLOGY

Remote boot over InfiniBand
Remote boot over Ethernet
Remote boot over iSCSI

PROTOCOL SUPPORT

Open MPI, OSU MVAPICH, Intel MPI, MS
MPI, Platform MPI
TCP/UDP, EoIB, IPoIB, RDS
SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA
uDAPL

PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE

PCIe Base 3.0 compliant, 1.1 and 2.0 compatible
2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate x8
Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1
Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

CONNECTIVITY

Interoperable with InfiniBand or 10/40 Ethernet switches. Interoperable with 56GbE Mellanox Switches.
Passive copper cable with ESD protection
Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
QSFP to SFP+ connectivity through QSA module

OPERATING SYSTEMS/DISTRIBUTIONS

Citrix XenServer 6.1
Novell SLES, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions
Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
Ubuntu 12.04
VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x

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Mellanox Scale-Out Ethernet Products 10Gb/s, 40Gb/s Ethernet Switch Systems

The Ethernet Switch Family delivers the highest performance and port density with a complete chassis and fabric management solution enabling converged data centers to operate at any scale while reducing operational costs and infrastructure complexity. This family includes a broad portfolio of Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches that range from 18 to 64 ports, and support 10/40/56Gb/s per port. These switches allow IT managers to build cost-effective and scalable switch fabrics for small to large clusters up to 10's-of-thousands of nodes. Mellanox makes fabric management as easy as it can by providing the lowest latency and highest bandwidth. This allows IT managers to deal with serving the company's business needs, while solving typical networking issues such as congestion and the inefficiencies generated by adding unnecessary rules and limitations when the network resources are sufficient.

Data Center Connectivity with 10/40GbE

Mellanox's scale-out 10/40GbE products enable users to benefit from a far more scalable, lower latency, and virtualized fabric with lower overall fabric costs and power consumption, greater efficiencies, and simplified management than traditional Ethernet fabrics.Using its extensive knowledge and expertise building scale-out fabrics for data centers, Mellanox's 10/40GbE fabrics are uniquely designed to be: Linearly Scalable - Maintains high performance, low costs and ease of management even when deployed in very large setups consisting of thousands of nodes. Efficient - Optimized design uses high-density, low latency, energy-efficient and low cost Layer 2 non-blocking switches.

Converged - One fabric can run LAN, IPC, and storage (including FCoE) traffic simultaneously with guaranteed service attributes and dynamic congestion management. Virtualized and Service Oriented - Provides application and service-driven fabric monitoring and SLA enforcement, with awareness and policy enforcement at the virtual machine granularity.

Open and Standard - Supports third-party top-of-rack, blade or virtual switches, and management and orchestration solutions through standard APIs and plug-ins- allowing users to create powerful unified computing solutions.

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