HP NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx Dual-Port 25G SFP28 Network Interface Card

HP 436M8AA Overview

Designed primarily for data centers, cloud applications, and other high-bandwidth workloads, the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx Dual-Port 25G SFP28 Network Interface Card enhances your compatible HP server or workstation with fast and reliable fiber connectivity. Installing this network interface card into an available PCIe 4.0 x8 expansion slot provides two SFP28 slots, each of which supports up to 25 Gb/s speeds. A single port connection can reach up to 50 Gb/s.

NVIDIA Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing (ASAP2) technology provides accelerated performance by offloading the software-defined networking (SDN) data plane to the NIC. Full-height and low-profile brackets are included.

SDN Acceleration

NVIDIA Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing (ASAP2) technology offloads the software-defined networking (SDN) data plane to the NIC, accelerating performance and offloading the CPU in virtualized or containerized cloud data centers. Datacenters may be accelerated with a single-root input/output (IO) virtualization (SR-IOV) or VirtIO interface while continuing to enjoy their SDN solution of choice.

The ConnectX-6 Lx ASAP2 rich feature set accelerates public and on-premises enterprise clouds and boosts the transition of cloud service providers (CSPs) to network function virtualization (NFV). ASAP2 supports these CSPs by enabling packet encapsulations, such as multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) and GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP), alongside cloud encapsulations, such as Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (GENEVE), and others.

Enhanced Networking

Providing remote direct-memory access (RDMA) over converged Ethernet (RoCE) capabilities, ConnectX-6 Lx enables more scalable, resilient, and easy-to-deploy RoCE solutions. With zero-touch RoCE (ZTR), the ConnectX-6 Lx allows RoCE payloads to run seamlessly on existing networks without special configuration, either to priority flow control (PFC) or explicit congestion notification (ECN), for simplified RoCE deployments. ConnectX-6 Lx ensures RoCE resilience and efficiency at scale.

Secure Your Infrastructure

ConnectX-6 Lx adapters offer advanced, built-in capabilities that bring security down to every node in the data center. Features include Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) inline encryption and decryption acceleration. ASAP2 connection-tracking hardware offload accelerates Layer 4 firewall performance. The ConnectX-6 Lx also delivers supply chain protection with hardware root of trust (RoT) for secure boot and firmware updates using RSA cryptography and cloning protection via a device-unique key, guaranteeing firmware authenticity.

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