Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT Network Interface Card

Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN 10/40/56GbE Media Access Controllers (MAC) with PCI Express 3.0 deliver high-bandwidth and industry-leading Ethernet connectivity for performance-driven server and storage applications in Enterprise Data Centers, High-Performance Computing, and Embedded environments. Clustered databases, web infrastructure, and high frequency trading are just a few applications that will achieve significant throughput and latency improvements resulting in faster access, real-time response and more users per server. ConnectX-3 EN improves network performance by increasing available bandwidth while decreasing the associated transport load on the CPU especially in virtualized server environments.

• Single chip architecture, low power
• Dual 10/40/56GbE ports
• PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8GT/s)
• Low Latency RDMA over Ethernet
• Data Center Bridging support
• T11.3 FC-BB-5 FCoE
• TCP/IP stateless offload in hardware
• Traffic steering across multiple cores
• Hardware-based I/O virtualization
• Intelligent interrupt coalescence
• Advanced Quality of Service
• 17mm x 17mm RoHS-R6

PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE
– PCIe Base 3.0 compliant, 2.0 and 1.1 compatible
– 2.5, 5.0, or 8.0GT/s link rate
– Auto-negotiates to x8, x4, x2, or x1
– Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms

CONNECTIVITY
– Interoperable with 10/40GbE Ethernet switches. Interoperable with 56GbE Mellanox Switches.
– Passive copper cable with ESD protection
– Powered connectors for optical and active cable support
– QSFP to SFP+ connectivity through QSA module

HARDWARE-BASED I/O VIRTUALIZATION
– Single-Root IOV
– Address translation and protection
– Dedicated adapter resources
– Multiple queues per virtual machine
– Enhanced QoS for vNICs
– VMware NetQueue Support

Part Code:

MCX311A-XCAT