System Requirements and Interoperability

Network Adapter Cards

NVIDIA ConnectX-7 (4x25G)

NVIDIA ConnectX-7 (200G) Crypto-disabled

NVIDIA ConnectX-5 / NVIDIA ConnectX-5 Ex

Firmware

ConnectX-7 28.44.1036

ConnectX-5 16.35.3502

Driver Stack

• DOCA-Host v2.10.0

• • doca-libvma profile

  • doca-roce profile

NOTE : Starting this version, the host driver is part of the NVIDIA DOCA package.

For further information, please see NVIDIA MLNX_OFED to DOCA-OFED Transition Guide .

Supported Operating Systems and Kernels

• Ubuntu 20.04

• RedHat 8.6, 8.7, and 9.3 ( for NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper only )

CPU Architecture

• x86_64 (Intel Xeon)

• Arm GH200 Grace Hopper

Minimum memory requirements

1 GB of free memory for installation 800 MB per process running with VMA

Minimum disk space requirements

1 GB

Transport

Ethernet/InfiniBand

Binary RPM and DEB packages for 64-bit architecture for Linux distribution

• libvma-9.8.60-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma-devel-9.8.60-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma-utils-9.8.60-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma_9.8.60-1_amd64.deb

• libvma-dev_9.8.60-1_amd64.deb

• libvma-utils_9.8.60-1_amd64.deb

Documentation

VMA Release Notes

VMA Installation and Quick Start Guide

VMA User Manual

sockperf

NVIDIA® (Open Source)

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 3.10 (https://github.com/mellanox/sockperf)

netperf

Open Source

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 2.6.0

NetPIPE

Open Source

Network Protocol Independent Performance Evaluator

Version 3.7.2

UMS (formerly LBM)

Informatica

Message Middleware Infrastructures

Version 6.7