Introduction

ConnectX®-6 Single/Dual-Port Adapter supporting 200Gb/s with VPI
Intelligent ConnectX-6 adapter cards, the newest additions to the Mellanox Smart Interconnect suite and supporting Co-Design and In-Network Compute, introduce new acceleration engines for maximizing High Performance, Machine Learning, Web 2.0, Cloud, Data Analytics and Storage platforms.

ConnectX-6 with Virtual Protocol Interconnect® supports two ports of 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity, sub-600 nanosecond latency, and 215 million messages per second, providing the highest performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding applications and markets.

ConnectX-6 VPI delivers the highest throughput and message rate in the industry. As the first adapter to deliver 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand, 100Gb/s HDR100 InfiniBand and 200Gb/s Ethernet speeds, ConnectX-6 VPI is the perfect product to lead HPC data centers toward Exascale levels of performance and scalability.

ConnectX-6 offers a crucial innovation to network security by providing block-level encryption. Data in transit undergoes encryption and decryption as it is stored or retrieved. The encryption/decryption is offloaded by the ConnectX-6 hardware, saving latency and offloading CPU. ConnectX-6 block-level encryption offload enables protection between users sharing the same resources, as different encryption keys can be used.

Ports & interfaces

Connectivity technology

Wired

Host interface

PCI Express

Interface

Ethernet

Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports

1

PCI version

3.0

Network

Maximum data transfer rate

10000 Mbit/s

Networking standards

IEEE 1588, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1Qau, IEEE 802.1Qaz, IEEE 802.1Qbb, IEEE 802.1Qbg, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3ad, IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3ap, IEEE 802.3az, IEEE 802.3ba

Ethernet LAN

Y

Ethernet interface type

Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

Ethernet LAN data rates

10,100,1000 Mbit/s

Cabling technology

10/100/1000BaseT(X)

Supported network protocols

SRP, iSER, NFS RDMA, SMB Direct, NVMe-oF

Design

Component for

Server

Product colour

Green, Silver

Internal

Y

System requirements

Windows operating systems supported

Y

Sustainability

Sustainability certificates

RoHS