Lenovo ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-Port Low-Latency Adapter User Guide

: June 3, 2024
: Lenovo

Lenovo ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-Port Low-Latency

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ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2- port Low-Latency Adapter

Product Guide

The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter delivers low sub-600µs latency, extremely high message rates, RoCE v2, NVMe over Fabric offloads and embedded PCIe switch. Mellanox provides the highest performance and lowest latency for the most demanding applications: High frequency trading, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and more. This adapter ships ready to accept 10GbE, 25GbE or 40GbE network connections.
The following figure shows the ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter.

Figure 1. ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter (heatsink removed)

Did you know?

NVMe storage solutions are gaining popularity, offering very fast storage access. The evolving NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) protocol leverages the Mellanox RDMA connectivity for remote access. ConnectX-5 offers further enhancements by providing NVMe-oF target offloads, enabling very efficient NVMe storage access with no CPU intervention, and thus improved performance and lower latency.

Part number information

The ordering information is listed in the following table.
Table 1. Ordering information

Part number| Feature code| Mellanox equivalent| **Description
---|---|---|---
4XC7A08229| B31C| MCX516A- BDAT| ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter**

The adapter, when shipped as a stand-alone option, includes the following items:

One Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex EN adapter
Two QSFP28 to SFP28 transceiver adapters (QSA28)
Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
Documentation flyer

QSA28 adapters: The option part number includes the QSA28 adapters, however when ordering the adapter as part of a server CTO build, the feature code B31C does not include the adapters and they must be ordered separately.

Supported transceivers and cables

The adapter has two empty QSFP28 cages. The adapter also includes two QSA28 adapters that convert the QSFP28 cages to SFP28 for 25Gb connectivity.
The adapter either supports a connection to a 1Gb, 10Gb, 25Gb or 40Gb switch or can share a connection to a 100Gb switch using a 4:1 breakout cable.
The following table lists the supported transceivers.

Table 2. Transceivers

Part number	Feature code	Description

Two QSA adapters are included with the ConnectX-5 Ex adapter part number, however they are not included with the adapter when ordered with a server as part of a CTO build. For CTO orders, select the QSA adapters separately if needed.
† This 25 Gb transceiver also supports 10 Gb when used with a Mellanox adapter

25Gb transceivers: When installed in this 25Gb Ethernet adapter, certain supported 25Gb transceivers (as listed in the above table) are designed to operate at either 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds, depending on the negotiation with the connected switch. In most configurations, this negotiation is automatic, however in some configurations you may have to manually set the link speed or FEC mode.

The following table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.
Table 3. Optical cables

Part number	Feature code	Description

LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables (these cables require a transceiver)
00MN499| ASR5| Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN502| ASR6| Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN505| ASR7| Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN508| ASR8| Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN511| ASR9| Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN514| ASRA| Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN517| ASRB| Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN520| ASRC| Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables
00YL634| ATYX| Lenovo 1M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL637| ATYY| Lenovo 3M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL640| ATYZ| Lenovo 5M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL643| ATZ0| Lenovo 7M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL646| ATZ1| Lenovo 15M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL649| ATZ2| Lenovo 20M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
QSFP Active Optical Cables
00YL652| ATZ3| Lenovo 3m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL655| ATZ4| Lenovo 5m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL658| ATZ5| Lenovo 7m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL661| ATZ6| Lenovo 15m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL664| ATZ7| Lenovo 20m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Active Optical Cable
7Z57A04256| AX42| Lenovo 1m 40G QSFP+ Active Optical Cable
QSFP 40Gb Optical Cables
00VX003| AT2U| Lenovo 10m QSFP+ MPO-MPO OM3 MMF Cable
00VX005| AT2V| Lenovo 30m QSFP+ MPO-MPO OM3 MMF Cable
SFP28 25Gb Active Optical Cables
7Z57A03541| AV1F| Lenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03542| AV1G| Lenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03543| AV1H| Lenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03544| AV1J| Lenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03545| AV1K| Lenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
QSFP28 100Gb Breakout Active Optical Cables
7Z57A03551| AV1R| Lenovo 3m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
Part number| Feature code| Description
---|---|---
7Z57A03552| AV1S| Lenovo 5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03553| AV1T| Lenovo 10m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03554| AV1U| Lenovo 15m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03555| AV1V| Lenovo 20m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable

The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.
Table 4. Copper cables

Part number	Feature code	Description

QSFP-to-QSFP Cables
49Y7890| A1DP| 1m QSFP+-to-QSFP+ cable
49Y7891| A1DQ| 3m QSFP+-to-QSFP+ cable
00D5810| A2X8| 5m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable
00D5813| A2X9| 7m QSFP+ to QSFP+ Cable
SFP+ 10Gb Passive DAC Cables
00D6288| A3RG| 0.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
90Y9427| A1PH| 1m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00AY764| A51N| 1.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00AY765| A51P| 2m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
90Y9430| A1PJ| 3m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
90Y9433| A1PK| 5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00D6151| A3RH| 7m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
SFP+ 10Gb Active DAC Cables
00VX111| AT2R| Lenovo 1m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
00VX114| AT2S| Lenovo 3m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
00VX117| AT2T| Lenovo 5m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
SFP28 25Gb Passive DAC Cables
7Z57A03557| AV1W| Lenovo 1m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
7Z57A03558| AV1X| Lenovo 3m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
7Z57A03559| AV1Y| Lenovo 5m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
QSFP28 100G-to-4x25G Breakout Cables
7Z57A03564| AV22| Lenovo 1m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable
7Z57A03565| AV23| Lenovo 3m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable
7Z57A03566| AV24| Lenovo 5m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable

Features

The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter has the following key features:
Ultra-low latency
Mellanox ConnectX-5 adapter cards feature exceedingly low latency and hardware-based RDMA technology that is perfect for meeting the needs of the financial services industry. Based on advanced technology providing sub- microsecond latency and a capacity of 200 million messages per second, ConnectX-5 offers the next generation of connectivity today.
Mellanox’s Messaging Accelerator (VMA) transparently boosts performance for socket-based applications without having to modify the applications. By offloading network processing from the OS, traffic passes directly to the network adapter from the application user space, bypassing the kernel IP stack and minimizing context switches, buffer copies, and interrupts. The result is a reduction in latency by 500% and an increase in application throughput, as compared to applications running on a standard network kernel stack.
Cloud, SDN, and NFV environment support
Mellanox Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2) Direct technology allows to offload vSwitch/vRouter by handling the data plane in the NIC hardware while maintaining the control plane unmodified. As a result there is significantly higher vSwitch/vRouter performance without the associated CPU load
The vSwitch/vRouter offload functions that are supported by ConnectX-5 include Overlay Networks (for example, VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, GENEVE, and NSH) headers’ encapsulation and de-capsulation, as well as stateless offloads of inner packets, packet headers’ re-write enabling NAT functionality, and more.
Moreover, the intelligent ConnectX-5 flexible pipeline capabilities, which include flexible parser and flexible match-action tables, can be programmed, which enable hardware offloads for future protocols.
ConnectX-5 SR-IOV technology provides dedicated adapter resources and guaranteed isolation and protection for virtual machines (VMs) within the server. With ConnectX-5 Network Function Virtualization
(NFV), a VM can be used as a virtual appliance. With full data-path operations offloads as well as hairpin hardware capability and service chaining, data can be handled by the Virtual Appliance with minimum CPU utilization.
With these capabilities data center administrators benefit from better server utilization while reducing cost, power, and cable complexity, allowing more Virtual Appliances, Virtual Machines and more tenants on the same hardware.

Specifications

The adapter has the following technical specifications:

PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface
Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms
Two QSFP28 external connectors supporting a transceiver, converter, direct-attach copper (DAC) cable or active optical cable (AOC).
Data rates supported: 1, 10, 25 and 40 Gb/s Ethernet
TLP (Transaction Layer Packet) Processing Hints (TPH)
Embedded PCIe Switch: Up to 8 bifurcations
PCIe switch Downstream Port Containment (DPC) enablement for PCIe hot-plug
Access Control Service (ACS) for peer-to-peer secure communication
Advance Error Reporting (AER)
Process Address Space ID (PASID) Address Translation Services (ATS)
IBM CAPI v2 support (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)
Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

Ethernet:

40GbE / 25GbE / 10GbE / 1GbE
IEEE 802.3by, Ethernet Consortium 25, supporting all FEC modes
IEEE 802.3ba 40 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ap based auto-negotiation and KR startup
IEEE 802.3ad, 802.1AX Link Aggregation
IEEE 802.1Q, 802.1P VLAN tags and priority
IEEE 802.1Qau (QCN) Congestion Notification
IEEE 802.1Qaz (ETS)
IEEE 802.1Qbb (PFC)
IEEE 802.1Qbg
IEEE 1588v2
Jumbo frame support (9.6KB)
IPv4 (RFQ 791)
IPv6 (RFC 2460)

Enhanced Features:

Hardware-based reliable transport
Collective operations offloads
Vector collective operations offloads
PeerDirect RDMA (GPUDirect) communication acceleration
64/66 encoding
Extended Reliable Connected transport (XRC)
Dynamically Connected Transport (DCT)
Enhanced Atomic operations
Advanced memory mapping support, allowing user mode registration and remapping of memory (UMR)
On demand paging (ODP)
MPI Tag Matching
Rendezvous protocol offload
Out-of-order RDMA supporting Adaptive Routing
Burst buffer offload
In-Network Memory registration-free RDMA memory access

CPU Offloads:

RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
LSO, LRO, checksum offload
RSS (also on encapsulated packet), TSS, HDS, VLAN and MPLS tag insertion/stripping, Receive flow steering
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) for kernel bypass applications
Open VSwitch (OVS) offload using ASAP2:
- Flexible match-action flow tables
- Tunneling encapsulation/ de-capsulation
Intelligent interrupt coalescence
Header rewrite supporting hardware offload of NAT router

Storage Offloads:

NVMe over Fabric offloads for target machine
Erasure Coding offload – offloading Reed Solomon calculations
T10 DIF – Signature handover operation at wire speed, for ingress and egress traffic
Storage protocols: SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF

Overlay Networks:

RoCE over Overlay Networks
Stateless offloads for overlay network tunneling protocols
Hardware offload of encapsulation and decapsulation of VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE overlay networks

Hardware-Based I/O Virtualization

Single Root IOV
Address translation and protection
VMware NetQueue support
SR-IOV: Up to 1K Virtual Functions
SR-IOV: Up to 16 Physical Functions per host
Virtualization hierarchies (e.g., NPAR and Multi-Host, when enabled):
- Virtualizing Physical Functions on a physical port
- SR-IOV on every Physical Function
Configurable and user-programmable QoS
Guaranteed QoS for VMs

HPC Software Libraries:

Open MPI, IBM PE, OSU MPI (MVAPICH/2), Intel MPI
Platform MPI, UPC, Open SHMEM

Management and Control:

PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
PLDM for Firmware Update DSP0267
SDN management interface for managing the swatch
I2C interface for device control and configuration General Purpose I/O pins
SPI interface to Flash
JTAG IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.6

Remote Boot:

Remote boot over Ethernet
Remote boot over iSCSI
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Pre-execution Environment (PXE)

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Table 5. Server support (Part 1 of 2)

Part Number| Description| **Edge| 1S Intel V2| 2S Intel V2| ****AMD| ****Dense V2| 4S V2| ****8S
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
SE350 (7Z46 /7D1X)| SE450 (7D8T)| ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J)| ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F)| SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q)| ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74)| SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71)| SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73)| SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23)| SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99)| SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01)| SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X)| SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V)| SD630 V2 (7D1K)| SD650 V2 (7D1M)| SD650-N V2 (7D1N)| SN550 V2 (7Z69)| SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32)| SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60)| SR950 (7X11 / 7X12)
4XC7A08229| ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2- port Low- Latency Adapter| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y**

Table 6. Server support (Part 2 of 2)

Part Number| Description| 1S Intel V1| 2S Intel V1| Dense V1| 4S V1
---|---|---|---|---|---
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50)| ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46)| SR150 (7Y54)| SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51)| ST550 (7X09 / 7X10)| SR530 (7X07 / 7X08)| SR550 (7X03 / 7X04)| SR570 (7Y02 / 7Y03)| SR590 (7X98 / 7X99)| SR630 (7X01 / 7X02)| SR650 (7X05 / 7X06)| SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37)| SD530 (7X21)| SD650 (7X58)| SN550 (7X16)| SN850 (7X15)| SR850 (7X18 / 7X19)| SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G)| SR860 (7X69 / 7X70)
4XC7A08229| ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| Y| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y

Operating system support

The adapter supports the following operating systems:

Tip: This table is automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.

Table 7. Operating system support for ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-5 Ex 25/40GbE 2-port Low-Latency Adapter, 4XC7A08229

Operating systems| SD530 (Gen 2)| SR630 (Gen 2)| SR650 (Gen 2)| SR850 (Gen 2)| SR850P| SR860 (Gen 2)| SR950 (Gen 2)| SD530 (Gen 1)| SR630 (Gen 1)| SR650 (Gen 1)| SR850 (Gen 1)| SR860 (Gen 1)| SR950 (Gen 1)
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2016| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2019| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server 2022| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server version 1709| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Microsoft Windows Server version 1803| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| N| N| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3| N| N| N| N| Y| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.0 U3| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
Operating systems| SD530 (Gen 2)| SR630 (Gen 2)| SR650 (Gen 2)| SR850 (Gen 2)| SR850P| SR860 (Gen 2)| SR950 (Gen 2)| SD530 (Gen 1)| SR630 (Gen 1)| SR650 (Gen 1)| SR850 (Gen 1)| SR860 (Gen 1)| SR950 (Gen 1)
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| N| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U1| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7| N| N| N| N| N| N| N| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.7 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U1| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U2| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0 U3| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 8.0| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y| Y

Physical specifications

The adapter is a low-profile adapter with the following dimensions:

Length: 14.2 cm (5.6 in)
Height: 6.9 cm (2.71 in)

Operating environment

The adapter is supported in the following environment:

Temperature (operating): 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
Temperature (storage): -40 to 70 °C (-40 to 158 °F)
Humidity (operating): 10 to 90% non-condensing
Humidity (storage): 5 to 90% non-condensing

Warranty

One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, the adapter assumes the system’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.

Agency approvals

The adapter conforms to the following standards:

Safety: CB / cTUVus / CE
EMC: CE / FCC / VCCI / ICES /
RCM RoHS: RoHS-R6

For more information, see the following resources:

Mellanox page for ConnectX-5 EN Ethernet adapters:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet/connectx-5/
Mellanox User Manuals:
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/ConnectX5EN
Mellanox Messaging Accelerator (VMA)
http://www.mellanox.com/page/software_vma?mtag=vma
Networking Options for ThinkSystem Servers
https://lenovopress.com/lp0765-networking-options-for-thinksystem-servers
Lenovo ServerProven compatibility information:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/
Support page for the adapter:
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/search?query=4XC7A08229

Product families related to this document are the following:

25 Gb Ethernet Connectivity
Ethernet Adapters

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