JVFYI PCIe x8 ConnectX-3 Dual-Port 56G QSFP Adapter

PCI-Express host interface specification v3.0 x8 and Complete with PCIe2.0 and 1.1

Two 56 Gigabit QSFP+ Ethernet ports

Compliant with QSFP+ MSA Spec Rev 1.0

Two QSFP ports supporting FDR-14 InfiniBand or 56Gb Ethernet

Support for InfiniBand FDR speeds of up to 56Gbps (auto-negotiation FDR-10, DDR and SDR)

Low-profile form factor adapter with 2u bracket

Virtual protocol interconnect (VPI)

InfiniBand Architecture specification v1.2.1 compliant

IEEE Std. 802.3 compliant

Compliant with copper cables and optical cables with the use of QSFP connectors.

Support for SFP+ cables available through QSA (Quad to Serial)

CORE-Direct application off-load

GPUDirect application off-load

RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE)

End-to-End QoS and congestion control

TCP/UDP/IP stateless off-load

Ethernet encapsulation (EoIB)

SR-IOV support;16 virtual functions supported by KVM and Hyper-V(OS dependant ) up to a maximum 127 virtual functions supports by the adapter

Enables low latency RDMA over 56GbEthernet (supported with both non-virtualized and SR-IOV enable virtualized servers)latency as low as 1us

Traffic steering across multiple cores

Microsoft VMQ/VMware Net Queue support

Industry-leading throughput and latency performance

Legacy and UEFI PXE network boot support

Supports iSCSI as a software iSCSI initiator in NIC mode with NIC driver

Supports Operation Systems: FreeBSD, Linux5.x and above, VMware, Windows server2008/2012/2016/2019, win7/win8/win8.1/win10 32 or 64bit

Package content

1 x PCIe x8 Mellanox Connectx-3 Dual-Port 56G QSFP adapter

1 x Users Manual

1 x CD Driver

1 x Low profile bracket

Accessories

System Requirements

FreeBSD, Linux , VMWare ESXi

Win-server2008 R2/ Win-server2012 R2/ Win-server2016/Win-server2019

Windows: 7/8/8.1/10 32/64bit

One available PCI Express x8/x16 slot

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Hardware installation

1.Turn off the computer and unplug the power cord

2.Remove the computer cover and the adapter slot cover from the slot that matches your adapter

3.Insert the adapter edge connector into the slot and secure the bracket to the chassis

4.Replace the computer cover ,then plug in the power cord

5.Power on the computer

Install Drivers and software

Windows Operating Systems

You must have administrative rights to the operating system to install the drivers.

1.insert the CD driver bound with Mellanox network driver into your CD-ROM drive(also you can download the latest drivers from support website):

2.if the Found New Hardware Wizard screen is displayed, click Cancel

3.select a driver based on the system type:

for Windows Server type: (Assume that D):

D:\NIC Drivers\Mellanox\ConnectionX-3\Windows Server

for Windows type: (Assume that D):

D:\NIC Drivers\Mellanox\ConnectionX-3\Windows Client

4.Double click the driver corresponding to the system.

5.Follow the instructions in the install wizard to finish it.

Installing Linux Drivers from Source Code

1.Download and expand the base driver tar file.

2.Compile the driver module.

3.Install the module using the modprobe command.

4.Assign an IP address using the ifconfig command.

Support

More information and settings, please refer to the Adapter User Guides or you can contact us.