IBM Flex System EN4132, User Manual

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14 IBM Flex System EN4132 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter User’s Guide
Driver and device information
To check driver and device information click on the General tab (example)
VMware driver
For VMware download and install the latest Mellanox WinOF VPI for Windows
software package available via the Mellanox web site at:
http://www.mella-
nox.com
=> Products => Software/Drivers => InfiniBand & VPI Software/Drivers
=> InfiniBand OFED Driver for VMware® ESX Server => Download. Follow the
installation instructions included in the download package (also available from
the download page).
RDMA over Converged Ethernet
ConnectX®-3 connected to an Ethernet fabric provides all of the basic NIC func-
tionality plus RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). RoCE utilizes advances in
Data Center Bridging (DCB) to enable efficient and low cost implementations of
RDMA over Ethernet, supporting the entire breadth of RDMA and low latency
features. This includes reliable connected service, datagram service, RDMA and
send/receive semantics, atomic operations, user level multicast, user level I/O
access, kernel bypass, and zero copy. This capability is enabled when using the
Mellanox OFED or WinOF VPI drivers.