Network & Communication

The IBM Flex System™ EN2024 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter is a quad-port Gigabit Ethernet network adapter. When it is combined with the IBM Flex System EN2092 1Gb Ethernet Scalable Switch, clients can leverage an end-to-end 1 Gb solution on the IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis. The EN2024 adapter is based on the Broadcom 5718 controller and offers a PCIe 2.0 x1 host interface with MSI/MSI-X. It also supports I/O virtualization features like VMware NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ technologies.

The explosive growth in virtualization is leading to an increasing demand for network performance. With more virtual machines (VMs) running on each multicore server, networking traffic is dramatically increased with each VM competing for available I/ O bandwidth. Intel's family of Intel Ethernet X520 Adapters addresses networking bottlenecks in virtualized environments. These adapters enable network-intensive applications to achieve the performance expected in a virtualized environment.

Abstract

The ThinkSystem Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100/100GbE VPI Adapters offer 100 Gb/s Ethernet and InfiniBand connectivity for high-performance connectivity when running HPC, cloud, storage and machine learning applications.

This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the adapter and its key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the ConnectX-6 HDR100 adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.