Mellanox Technologies MCX311A-XCAT Manuel D’Utilisation

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Software Support
All Mellanox adapters are supported by a full suite of software drivers for Microsoft 
Windows, Linux distributions, VMware and Citrix XenServer. The adapters support 
stateless offload and is fully interoperable with standard TCP/UDP/IP stacks. The 
adapters support various management interfaces and has a rich set of configuring 
and management tools across operating systems.
Complete End-to-End Ethernet Networking
Mellanox adapters are part of a full 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet end-to-end portfolio 
for data centers, which includes switches, application acceleration packages, 
and cables. Mellanox’s SwitchX family of Ethernet switches and Unified Fabric 
Management software incorporate advanced tools that simplify networking 
management and installation, and provide the needed capabilities for the highest 
scalability and future growth. Mellanox’s messaging and storage acceleration 
packages deliver additional capabilities for the ultimate server performance. With 
Mellanox end to end, IT managers can be assured of the highest performance, most 
efficient network fabric.
 
Industry-leading throughput and latency performance
 
Enabling I/O consolidation by supporting TCP/IP, Storage and RDMA 
over Ethernet transport protocols on a single adapter
 
Improved productivity and efficiency 
 
Supports industry-standard SR-IO Virtualization technology and 
delivers VM protection and granular levels of I/O services to 
applications
 
High-availability and high-performance for data center networking
 
Software compatible with standard TCP/UDP/IP and iSCSI stacks
 
High level silicon integration and no external memory design 
provides low power, low cost and high reliability
BENEFITS
TARGET APPLICATIONS
 
Web 2.0 data centers and cloud computing
 
Low latency financial services
 
Data center virtualization
 
I/O consolidation (single unified wire for networking, storage and 
clustering)
 
Video streaming
 
Enterprise data center applications
 
Accelerating back-up and restore operations