SR-IOV Ethernet

Use Case

High-performance Ethernet networking with hardware acceleration. Each pod receives a dedicated SR-IOV virtual function (VF) on a Mellanox NIC, providing low latency and isolated bandwidth. Common for distributed ML training and HPC simulations on Ethernet fabrics.

Prerequisites

Network Operator Helm chart installed (see Installation).
l8k binary on your PATH.
Mellanox NICs in Ethernet mode on each node.

Discover

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            l8k discover --kubeconfig ~/.kube/config \
    --save-cluster-config ./cluster-config.yaml

Generate

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            l8k generate --user-config ./cluster-config.yaml \
    --fabric ethernet --deployment-type sriov --multirail \
    --save-deployment-files ./deployments

Deploy

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            l8k deploy

Verify

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            kubectl -n nvidia-network-operator get pods
kubectl get sriovnetworknodepolicy
kubectl get sriovnetwork

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