About This Document

This document describes the configuration parameters of NVIDIA® BlueField®-3 SNAP and virtio-blk SNAP in detail.

Audience

This manual is intended for SNAP users looking to install and configure it.

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Term	Description
CLI	Command line interface
Bdev	Block device
BFB	BlueField bootstream
DMA	Direct memory access
DPA	Data path accelerator
ETH	Ethernet
FW	Firmware
I/O	Input/output
IB	InfiniBand
LBA	Logical block addressing
NSID	Namespace ID
NVMe	Non-volatile memory express
OS	Operating system
PF	Physical function
RPC	Remote procedure call
SF	Scalable function
SNAP	Storage-defined network accelerated processing
Vbdev	Virtual bdev
VF	Virtual function

Title	Description
BlueField DPU Hardware User Manual	This document provides details as to the interfaces of the BlueField DPU, specifications, required software and firmware for operating the device, and a step-by-step plan for bringing the DPU up
NVIDIA BlueField DPU Platform Operating System	This document provides product release notes as well as information on the BlueField software distribution and how to develop and/or customize applications, system software, and file system images for the BlueField platform
NVIDIA Accelerated IO (XLIO) Documentation	This document covers product release notes as well as features of XLIO. XLIO is a user-space software library that exposes standard socket APIs with kernel-bypass architecture, enabling a hardware-based direct copy between an application's user-space memory and the network interface.