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ConnectX®-3 Ethernet Dual SFP+ Port Adapter Card User Manual Rev 1.4
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Step 3: Select the Information tab from the Properties sheet (example).
To save this information for debug purposes, click Save To File and provide the output file name.
4.2 FlexBoot
FlexBoot enables remote boot over Ethernet, Boot over Ethernet (BoE) or Boot over iSCSI (Bo-
iSCSI). This technology is based on the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) standard specifica-
tion, and FlexBoot software is based on the open source iPXE project (see www.ipxe.org). For
more information go to
http://www.mellanox.com => Products => Software/Drivers => Infini-
Band & VPI Software/Drivers => FlexBoot => Download.
4.3 RDMA over Converged Ethernet
ConnectX®-3 connected to an Ethernet fabric provides all of the basic NIC functionality 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.
ConnectX®-3 EN with RoCE based network management is the same as that for any Ethernet and
DCB-based network management, eliminating the need for IT managers to learn new technolo-
gies.