Dell Mellanox ConnectX-3 User Manual

Flexible I/O for the Dynamic Data Center

Mellanox Dual Port 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

with PCI Express 3.0 for Dell® Servers

Mellanox continues its leadership
in providing high-performance networking technologies
by delivering superior productivity and scaling in
10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters,
enabling data centers to do more with less.

VALUE PROPOSITIONS

■ Data centers deploying virtualized servers are seeing higher demands

on their I/O infrastructure. Supporting 10/40 Gb/s and up to 8 virtual
functions Mellanox Ethernet Adapters satisfy the bandwidth and latency
demands of a virtualized environment. Providing backwards compatibility
the 10GbE Mezzanine cards can be deployed in 1/10GbE fabrics giving IT
managers a manageable migration path to 40GbE.

■ Web 2.0 and cloud service providers require high bandwidth, flexibility

and CPU offloading in order to provide the highest productivity and
performance from their infrastructure. Mellanox Ethernet Adapters
support 10/40GbE connectivity, CPU stateless offloads and RDMA over
Converged Ethernet (RoCE) enabling data center efficiency and scalability.

■ To guarantee maximum usage of expensive server and storage

investments, Financial Service Institutions (FSI) Data Centers must
deploy I/O and networking solutions that scale to support any level of
performance with the highest available bandwidth and lowest latency.
Mellanox Ethernet Adapters bring low latency sockets (PCIe 3.0) and
RDMA solutions for the ultimate in performance by leveraging the most
advanced technologies while enabling data centers the efficiency and
performance required for server and storage networking.