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 |
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B |
(Capital) ‘B’ is used to indicate size in bytes or multiples of bytes (e.g., 1KB = 1024 bytes, and 1MB = 1048576 bytes) |
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b |
(Small) ‘b’ is used to indicate size in bits or multiples of bits (e.g., 1Kb = 1024 bits) |
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FW |
Firmware |
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HCA |
Host Channel Adapter |
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HW |
Hardware |
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LSB |
Least significant byte |
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lsb |
Least significant bit |
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MSB |
Most significant byte |
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msb |
Most significant bit |
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NIC |
Network Interface Card |
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SW |
Software |
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VPI |
Virtual Protocol Interconnect |
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PR |
Path Record |
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RDS |
Reliable Datagram Sockets |
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SDP |
Sockets Direct Protocol |
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SL |
Service Level |
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MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
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QoS |
Quality of Service |
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ULP |
Upper Level Protocol |
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vHBA |
Virtual SCSI Host Bus adapter |
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uDAPL |
User Direct Access Programming Library |
Related Documentation
Document Name |
Description |
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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 |
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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. |
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MFT Documentation |
Mellanox Firmware Tools User Manual amd Release Notes. For further information please refer to the Mellanox website. |
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VMware vSphere Documentation Center |
VMware website |