Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 13)

User Manual for Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for Dell PowerEdge Servers Rev 1.1
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• 128 MAC/VLAN addresses per port
• Wake on LAN (WoL) supported on Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 10GbE KR Blade Mezzanine
Card only
• 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, or x1
• Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
• Hardware-based I/O Virtualization
• Single Root IOV (SR-IOV) - see Section 1.2.1, “Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV),”
on page 14
• Address translation and protection
• Dedicated adapter resources
• Multiple queues per virtual machine
• Enhanced QoS for vNICs
• VMware NetQueue support
• Additional CPU Offloads
• RDMA over Converged Ethernet - see Section 1.2.2, “Remote Direct Memory Access
(RDMA),” on page 14
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• FlexBoot
™
Technology
• Remote boot over Ethernet
• iSCSI boot
• PXE boot
• Connectivity
• Interoperable with 1/10/40GbE switches
• QSFP+ connectors supported on Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 40GbE QSFP+ Network Adapter
only
• SFP+ connectors supported on Mellanox ConnectX-3 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+ Network Adapter
only
• Passive copper cable
• Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
• Management and Tools
• MIB, MIB-II, MIB-II Extensions, RMON, RMON 2
• Configuration and diagnostic tools
• RoHS-R6 compliant
1.2.1 Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV)
Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a technology that allows a physical PCIe device to
present itself multiple times through the PCIe bus. This technology enables multiple virtual