ConnectX-4 from Mellanox is a family of high-performance and low-latency Ethernet and InfiniBand adapters. The ConnectX-4 Lx EN adapters are available in 40 Gb and 25 Gb Ethernet speeds and the ConnectX-4 Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapters support either InfiniBand or Ethernet.
These adapters address virtualized infrastructure challenges, delivering best-in-class performance to various demanding markets and applications. Providing true hardware-based I/O isolation with unmatched scalability and efficiency, achieving the most cost-effective and flexible solution for Web 2.0, Cloud, data analytics, database, and storage platforms.
The following figure shows the Mellanox ConnectX-4 2x100GbE/EDR IB QSFP28 VPI Adapter (the standard heat sink has been removed in this photo).
Wired
PCI Express
Fiber
2
SFP28
3.0
Full-height (low-profile)
25000 Mbit/s
IEEE 802.1AX,IEEE 802.1Q,IEEE 802.1Qau,IEEE 802.1Qaz,IEEE 802.1Qbb,IEEE 802.1Qbg,IEEE 802.3ad,IEEE 802.3az
Server
Green
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CB, cTUVus, CE
CE, FCC, VCCI, ICES, RCM
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (no SR-IOV support) Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server x64 Edition, U7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, U2 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64/EM64T, SP4** SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12, SP1** VMware ESXi 5.5, U3* VMware ESXi 6.0, U2*
0 - 55 °C
-40 - 70 °C
RoHS
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