System Requirements and Interoperability

NVIDIA Messaging Accelerator (VMA) Documentation Rev 9.8.40

The following table presents the currently certified combinations of stacks and platforms, and supported CPU architectures for the current VMA version.

SpecificationValue
Network Adapter CardsNVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 (4x25G)
NVIDIA® ConnectX®-7 (200G) Crypto-disabled
NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 / NVIDIA® ConnectX®-5 Ex

Firmware
28.39.1002
16.35.3006
Driver Stack
  • MLNX_OFED: v23.10-0.5.5.0
  • MLNX_EN: v23.10-0.5.5.0
Supported Operating Systems and KernelsUbuntu 20.04, and RH 8.4, 8.6 (x86_64, arm64)
CPU Architecturex86_64 (Intel Xeon), arm64
Minimum memory requirements1 GB of free memory for installation 800 MB per process running with VMA
Minimum disk space requirements1 GB
TransportEthernet/InfiniBand

Description

Binary RPM and DEB packages for 64-bit architecture for Linux distribution

  • libvma-9.8.40-1.x86_64.rpm

  • libvma-devel-9.8.540-1.x86_64.rpm

  • libvma-utils-9.8.40-1.x86_64.rpm

  • libvma_9.8.40-1_amd64.deb

  • libvma-dev_9.8.40-1_amd64.deb

  • libvma-utils_9.8.40-1_amd64.deb

Documentation

VMA Release Notes

VMA Installation and Quick Start Guide

VMA User Manual

The VMA library has been successfully tested and is certified to work with the applications listed in the following table.

Application

Company / Source

Type

Notes

sockperf

NVIDIA® (Open Source)

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 3.10 (https://github.com/mellanox/sockperf)

netperf

Open Source

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 2.6.0

NetPIPE

Open Source

Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator

Version 3.7.2

UMS (formerly LBM)

Informatica

Message Middleware Infrastructures

Version 6.7

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