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NVIDIA ConnectX-6 DX Ethernet SmartNIC
Ethernet SmartNIC
ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC is the industry's most secure and advanced cloud network interface card to accelerate mission-critical data-center applications, such as security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. The SmartNIC delivers the highest return on investment (ROI) of any smart network interface card.
ConnectX-6 Dx is a member of NVIDIA's world-class, award-winning ConnectX series of network adapters powered by leading 50 Gb/s (PAM4) and 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology and novel capabilities that accelerate cloud and data-center payloads.
• Up to 100 Gb/s bandwidth
• Message rate of up to 215 Mpps
• Sub 0.8 usec latency
• Flexible programmable pipeline for new network flows
• Multi-Host with advanced QoS
• ASAP2 - Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing for virtual switches/routers
• Overlay tunneling technologies
• IPsec and TLS in-line crypto acceleration
• Block crypto acceleration for data-at-rest
• Hardware Root-of-Trust and secure firmware update
• Connection Tracking offload
• Advanced RoCE capabilities
• Best in class PTP for TSN applications
• GPUDirect for GPU-to-GPU communication
• Host chaining technology for economical rack design
• Platform agnostic: x86, Power, Arm
• ODCC compatible
Host Interface
• 16 lanes of PCIe Gen4, compatible with PCIe Gen2/Gen3
• Integrated PCI switch
• NVIDIA Multi-Host and NVIDIA Socket Direct™
Remote Boot
• Remote boot over Ethernet
• Remote boot over iSCSI
• UEFI and PXE support for x86 and Arm servers
Stateless Offloads
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• LSO, LRO, checksum offload
• Receive side scaling (RSS) also on encapsulated packet
• Transmit side scaling (TSS)
• VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping
• Receive flow steering
Storage Offloads
• Block-level encryption: XTS-AES 256/512-bit key
• NVMe over Fabrics offloads for target machine
• T10 DIF signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic
• Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• RoCE v1/v2
• Zero-touch RoCE: no ECN, no PFC
• RoCE over overlay networks
• Selective repeat
• Programmable congestion control interface
• GPUDirect®
Management and Control
• NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe—Baseboard Management Controller interface, NCSI over RBT in Open Compute Project (OCP) 2.0/3.0 cards
• PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
• PLDM for Firmware Update DSP0267
• I2C interface for device control and configuration
Cybersecurity
• Inline hardware IPsec encryption and decryption
-AES-GCM 128/256-bit key
-RoCE over IPsec
• Inline hardware TLS encryption and
decryption
-AES-GCM 128/256-bit key
• Data-at-rest AES-XTS encryption and decryption
-AES-XTS 256/512-bit key
• Platform security
-Hardware root-of-trust
-Secure firmware update
Virtualization/Cloud Native
• SR-IOV and VirtIO acceleration
-Up to 1K virtual functions per port
-8 physical functions
• Support for tunneling
-Encap/decap of VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, and more
-Stateless offloads for overlay tunnels
ASAP2 Accelerated Switching & Packet Processing
• SDN acceleration for:
-Bare metal
-Virtualization
-Containers
• Full hardware offload for OVS data plane
• Flow update through RTE_Flow or TC_Flower
• Flex-parser: user-defined classification
• Hardware offload for:
-Connection tracking (Layer 4 firewall)
-NAT
-Header rewrite
-Mirroring
-Sampling
-Flow aging
-Hierarchical QoS
-Flow-based statistics
Advanced Timing and Synchronization
• Advanced PTP
-IEEE 1588v2 (any profile)
-PTP hardware clock (PHC) (UTC format)
-Nanosecond-level accuracy
-Line rate hardware timestamp (UTC format)
-PPS in and configurable PPS out
• Time-triggered scheduling
• PTP-based packet pacing
• Time-based SDN acceleration (ASAP2)
• Time-sensitive networking (TSN)
• Dedicated precision timing card option
Full specification and details can be found in the Product Datasheet PDF file
NVIDIA ConnectX-6 DX Ethernet SmartNIC
Ethernet SmartNIC
ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC is the industry's most secure and advanced cloud network interface card to accelerate mission-critical data-center applications, such as security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. The SmartNIC delivers the highest return on investment (ROI) of any smart network interface card.
ConnectX-6 Dx is a member of NVIDIA's world-class, award-winning ConnectX series of network adapters powered by leading 50 Gb/s (PAM4) and 25/10 Gb/s (NRZ) SerDes technology and novel capabilities that accelerate cloud and data-center payloads.
• Up to 100 Gb/s bandwidth
• Message rate of up to 215 Mpps
• Sub 0.8 usec latency
• Flexible programmable pipeline for new network flows
• Multi-Host with advanced QoS
• ASAP2 - Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing for virtual switches/routers
• Overlay tunneling technologies
• IPsec and TLS in-line crypto acceleration
• Block crypto acceleration for data-at-rest
• Hardware Root-of-Trust and secure firmware update
• Connection Tracking offload
• Advanced RoCE capabilities
• Best in class PTP for TSN applications
• GPUDirect for GPU-to-GPU communication
• Host chaining technology for economical rack design
• Platform agnostic: x86, Power, Arm
• ODCC compatible
Host Interface
• 16 lanes of PCIe Gen4, compatible with PCIe Gen2/Gen3
• Integrated PCI switch
• NVIDIA Multi-Host and NVIDIA Socket Direct™
Remote Boot
• Remote boot over Ethernet
• Remote boot over iSCSI
• UEFI and PXE support for x86 and Arm servers
Stateless Offloads
• TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
• LSO, LRO, checksum offload
• Receive side scaling (RSS) also on encapsulated packet
• Transmit side scaling (TSS)
• VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping
• Receive flow steering
Storage Offloads
• Block-level encryption: XTS-AES 256/512-bit key
• NVMe over Fabrics offloads for target machine
• T10 DIF signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic
• Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• RoCE v1/v2
• Zero-touch RoCE: no ECN, no PFC
• RoCE over overlay networks
• Selective repeat
• Programmable congestion control interface
• GPUDirect®
Management and Control
• NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe—Baseboard Management Controller interface, NCSI over RBT in Open Compute Project (OCP) 2.0/3.0 cards
• PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
• PLDM for Firmware Update DSP0267
• I2C interface for device control and configuration
Cybersecurity
• Inline hardware IPsec encryption and decryption
-AES-GCM 128/256-bit key
-RoCE over IPsec
• Inline hardware TLS encryption and
decryption
-AES-GCM 128/256-bit key
• Data-at-rest AES-XTS encryption and decryption
-AES-XTS 256/512-bit key
• Platform security
-Hardware root-of-trust
-Secure firmware update
Virtualization/Cloud Native
• SR-IOV and VirtIO acceleration
-Up to 1K virtual functions per port
-8 physical functions
• Support for tunneling
-Encap/decap of VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, and more
-Stateless offloads for overlay tunnels
ASAP2 Accelerated Switching & Packet Processing
• SDN acceleration for:
-Bare metal
-Virtualization
-Containers
• Full hardware offload for OVS data plane
• Flow update through RTE_Flow or TC_Flower
• Flex-parser: user-defined classification
• Hardware offload for:
-Connection tracking (Layer 4 firewall)
-NAT
-Header rewrite
-Mirroring
-Sampling
-Flow aging
-Hierarchical QoS
-Flow-based statistics
Advanced Timing and Synchronization
• Advanced PTP
-IEEE 1588v2 (any profile)
-PTP hardware clock (PHC) (UTC format)
-Nanosecond-level accuracy
-Line rate hardware timestamp (UTC format)
-PPS in and configurable PPS out
• Time-triggered scheduling
• PTP-based packet pacing
• Time-based SDN acceleration (ASAP2)
• Time-sensitive networking (TSN)
• Dedicated precision timing card option
Full specification and details can be found in the Product Datasheet PDF file