Advanced Networking and Security for the Most Demanding

Cloud and Data Center Workloads

The PCIe x16 Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx Dual-Port 100G network adapter is a highly secure and advanced smart network interface card (SmartNIC) that accelerates mission-critical cloud and data center applications, including security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, 

and storage. ConnectX-6 Dx provides up to two ports of 100Gb/s, ConnectX-6 Dx features virtual switch (vSwitch) and virtual router (vRouter) hardware accelerations delivering orders-of-magnitude higher performance than softwarebased solutions. 

ConnectX-6 Dx supports a choice of single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) and VirtIO in hardware, enabling customers to best address their application needs. By offfoading cloud networking workloads, ConnectX-6 Dx frees up CPU cores for business applications while reducing total 

cost-of-ownership.

Features

Host Interface

– PCIe Gen 4.0 compatible, 16 lanes

Network Interface

– Dual ports of 10/25/40/50/100 GbE

– Up to 200Gb/s total bandwidth

Enhanced Networking

– Zero-Touch RoCE

– ASAP² Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing™ for SDN and VNF acceleration

– Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)

– VirtIO acceleration

– Overlay network acceleration: VXLAN, GENEVE, NVGRE

– Programmable flexible parser

– Connection tracking (L4 firewall)

– Flow mirroring, sampling and statistics

– Header rewrite

– Hierarchical QoS

– Stateless TCP offloads

– Hierarchical QoS

– Stateless TCP offloads

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

Advanced PPT Timing and Synchronization

– 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

Management and Control

– NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe—Baseboard Management Controller interface, NCSI over RBT in Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 cards

Remote Boot

– Remote boot over Ethernet

– Remote boot over iSCSI

– UEFI and PXE support for x86 and Arm servers