ESXi 6.5: NVIDIA ConnectX-4 onwards NICs NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere Release Notes v4.16.70.1

Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v6.5

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.

Release Notes Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

4.16.70.1

June 21, 2020

Initial release of this Release Notes version.

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