NVIDIA BlueField-3 SNAP for NVMe and Virtio-blk v4.4.0

NVIDIA BlueField-3 SNAP for NVMe and Virtio-blk v4.4.0 Download PDF

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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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Glossary

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

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