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Mellanox ConnectX-3 and EN6132 2-port 40Gb

Ethernet Adapters for Flex System

Product Guide

The Flex System EN6132 2-port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Mezz 40Gb 2-Port

Ethernet Adapter in conjunction with the EN6131 40Gb Ethernet Switch offer the performance that you

need to support clustered databases, parallel processing, transactional services, and high-performance

embedded I/O applications, which reduces task completion time and lowers the cost per operation.

The EN6132 and ConnectX-3 adapters can help you achieve efficient computing by offloading protocol

processing from the CPU and data movement impact, such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet and

Send/Receive semantics, which allows more processor power for the application.

The EN6132 2-port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Flex System EN6132 2-port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter

Did you know?

The 40 Gb Ethernet solution that is offered by Flex System can deploy more workloads per server without

running into I/O bottlenecks. If there are failures or server maintenance, clients can move their virtual

machines much faster by using 40 Gb interconnects within the chassis.

The 40 GbE switch and adapter are designed for low latency, high bandwidth, and computing efficiency

for performance-driven server and storage clustering applications. They provide extreme scalability for

low-latency clustered solutions with reduced packet hops.

Mellanox ConnectX-3 and EN6132 2-port 40Gb Ethernet Adapters for Flex System

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Page 1: ... Converged Ethernet and Send Receive semantics which allows more processor power for the application The EN6132 2 port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter is shown in Figure 1 Figure 1 Flex System EN6132 2 port 40Gb Ethernet Adapter Did you know The 40 Gb Ethernet solution that is offered by Flex System can deploy more workloads per server without running into I O bottlenecks If there are failures or server mai...

Page 2: ...to servers and storage Industry leading throughput performance with low latency Ideal for clients running Ethernet infrastructure in high speed trading Web 2 0 virtualization and cloud computing Enables clients to maximize compute usage by removing I O bottlenecks Improved application productivity and efficiency with support for protocol offload and RDMA over Converged Ethernet Support for industr...

Page 3: ... 802 3x standard flow control to allow the switch to pause traffic based on the 802 1p priority value in each packet s VLAN tag Enhanced Transmission Selection ETS IEEE 802 1Qaz provides a method for allocating link bandwidth based on the 802 1p priority value in each packet s VLAN tag Hardware based I O virtualization Jumbo frame support up to 10 KB 802 1Q VLAN tagging NIC teaming and failover st...

Page 4: ...orts the I O modules that are listed in the following table Table 3 Supported I O modules Part number Feature code Description 90Y9346 A3HJ Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet Switch Other I O modules Other I O modules that are not listed in Table 3 are not supported The supported I O modules are installed in the I O bays in the rear of the Flex System Enterprise Chassis as shown in the following fig...

Page 5: ...e compute nodes to the supported I O modules that are installed in the chassis I O bays are shown in the figure below The figure also shows both half wide compute nodes such as the SN550 with two adapters and full wide compute nodes such as the SN850 with four adapters Mellanox ConnectX 3 and EN6132 2 port 40Gb Ethernet Adapters for Flex System 5 ...

Page 6: ... when the adapter is installed in slot A2 or A4 In the compute nodes that have an integrated dual port 10 GbE network interface controller NIC NIC ports are routed to bays 1 and 2 with a specialized periscope connector and the adapter in slot A1 is not required However when needed the periscope connector can be replaced with the EN6132 adapter In such a case integrated NIC is disabled The followin...

Page 7: ...ort 2 Yes Slot 4 full wide compute nodes only Port 1 Yes Port 2 Yes The adapters are installed in slots in a supported compute node The following shows the locations of the slots in the x240 Compute Node The positions of the adapters in the other supported compute nodes are similar Figure 4 Location of the I O adapter slots in the Flex System x240 Compute Node Supported operating systems Mellanox ...

Page 8: ...ws Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 EM64T SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 VMware ESX 4 1 VMware ESXi 4 1 VMware vSphere 5 0 ESXi VMware vSphere 5 1 E...

Page 9: ...32 Related publications For more information see the following resources Flex System Information Center User s Guides for servers and options http flexsystem lenovofiles com help index jsp Flex System Interoperability Guide http lenovopress com fsig Flex System Products and Technology Guide http lenovopress com sg248255 ServerProven for Flex System http www lenovo com us en serverproven flexsystem...

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