Overview
NVIDIA® Mellanox® native ESXi drivers enable industry-leading performance and efficiency as non-virtualized environments using hardware offloads such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) on VMware vSphere. NVIDIA® Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 onwards deliver 10/25/40/50 and 100GbE network speeds with ESXi 6.5 onwards, allowing the highest port rate on ESXi today.
Software Download
Please visit http://www.mellanox.com → Products → Ethernet Drivers → VMware Driver
Document Revision History
A list of the changes made to the User Manual are provided in Document Revision History.
Common Abbreviations and Acronyms
| Abbreviation/Acronym | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
B | (Capital) ‘B’ is used to indicate size in bytes or multiples of bytes (e.g., 1KB = 1024 bytes, and 1MB = 1048576 bytes) | ||
b | (Small) ‘b’ is used to indicate size in bits or multiples of bits (e.g., 1Kb = 1024 bits) | ||
FW | Firmware | ||
HCA | Host Channel Adapter | ||
HW | Hardware | ||
LSB | Least significant byte | ||
lsb | Least significant bit | ||
MSB | Most significant byte | ||
msb | Most significant bit | ||
NIC | Network Interface Card | ||
SW | Software | ||
VPI | Virtual Protocol Interconnect | ||
PR | Path Record | ||
RDS | Reliable Datagram Sockets | ||
SDP | Sockets Direct Protocol | ||
SL | Service Level | ||
MPI | Message Passing Interface | ||
QoS | Quality of Service | ||
ULP | Upper Level Protocol | ||
vHBA | Virtual SCSI Host Bus adapter | ||
uDAPL | User Direct Access Programming Library |
Related Documentation
| Document Name | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
IEEE Std 802.3ae™-2002 (Amendment to IEEE Std 802.3-2002) Document # PDF: SS94996 | Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications Amendment: Media Access Control (MAC) Parameters, Physical Layers, and Management Parameters for 10 Gb/s Operation | ||
Firmware Release Notes for Mellanox adapter devices | See the Release Notes relevant to your adapter device. For further information please refer to the Mellanox website. | ||
MFT Documentation | Mellanox Firmware Tools User Manual amd Release Notes. For further information please refer to the Mellanox website. | ||
VMware vSphere Documentation Center | VMware website |
