Networking Hardware

Given the East/West and North/South networking needs described previously, along with out-of-band management (OOB) requirements, this section details the specific networking hardware components that are used in this Enterprise RA

NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3140H SuperNIC

The BlueField-3 B3140H SuperNIC with a single 400 GbE port (Figure 4) is used in the compute (E/W) fabric.

Figure 4. NVIDIA B3140H SuperNIC.

NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220 DPU

The NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220 DPU with two 200 GbE ports (Figure 5) are used in the converged in-band management and storage (N/S) fabric. This Enterprise RA uses dual port DPUs for the best performance and flexibility.

Figure 5. NVIDIA BlueField-3 B3220 DPU.

NVIDIA SN5610 Switch

The NVIDIA SN5610 switch (Figure 6) offers 64 total ports of 800 Gbps to provide connectivity for Compute (E/W), Customer and Storage (N/S), in-band management

Figure 6. NVIDIA SN5610 Ethernet switch.

NVIDIA SN2201 Switch

The NVIDIA SN2201 switch (Figure 7) offers 48 ports to provide connectivity for out-of-band (OOB) management. OOB management provides consolidated management connectivity for all components in the Enterprise RA.

Figure 7. NVIDIA SN2201 Ethernet switch.