Mellanox ConnectX-5 PCIe 4.0 x16 network card with 2 QSFP28 ports supporting up to 100GbE, featuring RDMA, RoCE, NVMe-oF, SR-IOV, and Jumbo Frame capabilities.

PCIe Gen 4.0 network card based on the Mellanox ConnectX-5 controller with two QSFP28 interfaces supporting Ethernet links up to 100 Gbps. Hardware acceleration features for RDMA, RoCE, PeerDirect, and NVMe over Fabrics help reduce latency and CPU load when processing network and storage traffic.

Compatibility:

PCI Express 4.0 x16 slot, backward compatible with PCIe 3.0, 2.0, and 1.1

Supports Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and 11; Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022; and Linux / Unix RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, UOS, OpenEuler, Kylin, EulerOS, Debian, CTYUNOS, BCLinux, and Alios.

Network standards IEEE 802.3bj, IEEE 802.3bm, IEEE 802.3by, IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3az, IEEE 802.3ap, and IEEE 802.3ad

VLAN/QoS standards: IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1P, IEEE 802.1Qau, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbb, and IEEE 802.1Qbg

Synchronization: IEEE 1588v2

Technical specifications:

Mellanox ConnectX-5 network controller

PCI Express Gen4 x16 host interface

Network Connectivity: 2 QSFP28 ports, maximum throughput up to 100GbE

Supported Ethernet Speeds: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 56GbE, and 100GbE

Protocols: 100GBASE-CR4, 100GBASE-KR4, 100GBASE-SR4, 56GBASE-R4, 50GBASE-R2/R4, 40GBASE-CR4/KR4/SR4/LR4/ER4/R2, 25GBASE-R, 20GBASE-KR2, 10GBASE-SR/LR/ER/CX4/CR/KR, 1000BASE-CX/KX, and SGMII

RDMA: hardware acceleration for remote memory access.

RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet).

PeerDirect—hardware acceleration of RDMA communications.

NVMe over Fabrics—NVMe-oF hardware offload features.

Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS, RDMA, SMB Direct, and NVMe-oF.

Network offload: TCP, UDP, and IP Stateless Offload.

Acceleration features: LSO, LRO, and Checksum Offload.

SR-IOV virtualization: up to 512 virtual functions.

SR-IOV physical functions: up to 8 physical functions per port.

VxLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE overlay networks.

VMDq and Virtual Machine Load Balancing virtualization features.

Jumbo frames up to 9.6 KB.

PXE and UEFI network boot, remote Ethernet and iSCSI boot.

Maximum power consumption: 24.6 W.

Dimensions: 152 x 69 mm.

Operating temperature: 0°C to 55°C.

LED indicators: green for full-speed connection, yellow for reduced-speed connection

Full-height mounting bracket installed; low-profile mounting bracket included.