System Requirements and Interoperability

Network Adapter Cards

NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx 100GbE Crypto Enabled (P/N: MCX623106AE-CDAT).

NVIDIA BlueField-2 A1 High-Bin Crypto Enabled (P/N: MBF2H516A-CEEOT).

Firmware

ConnectX-6 Dx v22.32.1002

BlueField-2 A1 high-bin crypto enabled v24.32.1002

Driver Stack

• MLNX_OFED v5.5-1.0.1.0

• MLNX_EN v5.5-1.0.1.0 and above

Supported Operating Systems and Kernels

For x86_64:

Ubuntu 20.04 and RH8.3 distributions supported by:

• MLNX_OFED v5.5-1.0.1.0

• MLNX_EN v5.5-1.0.1.0 and above

For arm64:

Ubuntu 20.04 distribution supported by:

• MLNX_OFED v5.5-1.0.1.0

• MLNX_EN v5.5-1.0.1.0 and above

CPU Architecture

x86_64 (Intel Xeon), arm64

Minimum memory requirements

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

Minimum disk space requirements

1 GB

Transport

Ethernet

Description 

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

• libxlio-1.1.8-1.x86_64.rpm

• libxlio-devel-1.1.8-1.x86_64.rpm

• libxlio-utils-1.1.8-1.x86_64.rpm

• libxlio_1.1.8-1.55101_amd64.deb

• libxlio-dev_1.1.8-1.55101_amd64.deb

• libxlio-utils_1.1.8-1.55101_amd64.deb

Documentation 

XLIO Release Notes 

XLIO Installation and Quick Start Guide 

XLIO User Manual 

sockperf

NVIDIA (Open Source)

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 3.7 (included in XLIO package at https://github.com/mellanox/sockperf)

iperf

NLANR

Bandwidth and Latency Benchmarking

Version 2.0.5