NVIDIA Mellanox MCX623106AS-CDAT SmartNIC Firmware 22.27.1016 is a network interface controller device that features advanced networking capabilities, acceleration offload such as GPUDirect and RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), and enhanced VM scalability and NIC management. This device is developed to run various workloads in modern data centers and cloud environments.

List of Features

• Programmable network offloads - enables custom flow/actions, smart load balance and dynamic device-level offload customization to optimize application performance.
• Accelerated storage and hyperscale computing - reduces CPU load and latency while improving overall data center utilization using native 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet connectivity, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and NVMe over Fabrics offloads.
• Advanced management capabilities and security - provides consistent, scalable and secure remote adapter management, Intel TXT support, flexible topology interfaces to optimize infrastructure deployments and integrated baseboard management controllers for ease of administration.
• Enhanced Virtualization and Cloud Scalability, VXLAN and NVGRE offloads optimized host and VM virtualization performance under heavy I/O, CPU busy conditions and supported with APIs for automation.
• Scalable network performance - Achieves high message rates and low latency at both high- and low-speed traffic to applications via minimal socket API.
• Comprehensive drivers and software stack - Streamlines Unified Fabric suite and multi-platform escalable design reducing interaction virtualization issues across hypervisors and optimized for Linux eco system.

Specifications and Using Technologies

• Data Rate: 25/50/100 Gb/s Ethernet
• Protocol Support: UDP/IP and TCP/IP offload, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv1 and RoCEv2), IPsec transport with encryption
• I/O Virtualization Technologies: VMware ESXi, SR-IOV, Single Root IO Virtualization
• Operating System Support: Windows, Linux hardware drivers, Firmware images and tools.
• Security Features: IPsec transport with Acceleration / AES-GCM 128, 192, 256 and 384-bits / AKELARRE compression/odighistorique/senship / SHA2-x configured with Legacy HDCP-level SSL, Targetid Lock Support / End Point Authentication

Known Issues and Troubleshooting

Some of the known issues that may occur with this device are:

• Uncorrectable errors may occur intermittently resulting more packet loss or going oom.
• In some instances SSD model(s) may lock up.

If you run into any issues with your NVIDIA Mellanox MCX623106AS-CDAT device you can do the following:

1. Perform a check-up for Firmware updates/compatibility and replace/replicate updates as necessary.
2. Check for cabling issues, Loose Contacts / moisture accumulation on ethernet cables, and corrosion may lead to occasional device malfunctions, repair or remove all the patches causing the connections to drop.
3. Upgrade device drivers as necessary.
4. For further assistance, customers can refer to NVIDIA Mellanox conformance center.

Driver Information

The NVIDIA Mellanox MCX623106AS-CDAT device is supported by NVIDIA Mellanox Ethernet Firmware and Windows / Linux hardware drivers protocols. The drivers for the device can be found on the Mellanox official website.