NVIDIA ConnectX-5 EN 25Gigabit Ethernet Card - PCI Express 3.0 x8 - 25 Gbit/s Data Transfer Rate - 2 Port(s) - Optical Fiber - OCP 2.0 Bracket Height - 25GBase-X - SFP28 - Plug-in Card | MCX512A-ACAT
- Overlay Networks (e.g., VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, GENEVE, and NSH) header encapsulation & decapsulation.
- Stateless offloads of inner packets and packet headers' re-write, enabling NAT functionality and more.
- Flexible and programmable parser and match-action tables, which enable hardware offloads for future protocols.
- SR-IOV technology, providing dedicated adapter resources, guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VMs) within the server.
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV), enabling a VM to be used as a virtual appliance. The full datapath operation offloads, hairpin hardware capability and service chaining enables data to be handled by the virtual appliance, with minimum CPU utilization.