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 28.45.1020

ConnectX-5 16.35.3502

Driver Stack

• DOCA-Host v3.0.0

  • 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

• RedHat:

  • RedHat 8.6 and 9.4 (for NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper only)

• Ubuntu (supported but no tested):

  • Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and SLES15 SP4

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-X.X.XX-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma-devel-X.X.XX-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma-utils-X.X.XX-1.x86_64.rpm

• libvma_X.X.XX-1_amd64.deb

• libvma-dev_X.X.XX-1_amd64.deb

• libvma-utils_X.X.XX-1_amd64.deb

Documentation

• VMA Release Notes

• 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