NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx is a highly secure and advanced smart network interface card (SmartNIC) that accelerates mission-critical cloud and data center applications, including security, virtualization, SDN/NFV, big data, machine learning, and storage. ConnectX-6 Dx provides two ports of 100 Gb/s Ethernet connectivity.
ConnectX-6 Dx features virtual switch (vSwitch) and virtual router (vRouter) hardware accelerations delivering orders-of-magnitude higher performance than softwarebased solutions. ConnectX-6 Dx supports a choice of single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) and VirtIO in hardware, enabling customers to good address their application needs. By offloading cloud networking workloads, ConnectX-6 Dx frees up CPU cores for business applications while reducing total cost-of-ownership.
In an era where data privacy is key, ConnectX-6 Dx provides built-in inline encryption/decryption, stateful packet filtering, and other capabilities, bringing advanced security down to every node with unprecedented performance and scalability.
Built on the solid foundation of NVIDIA's ConnectX line of SmartNICs, ConnectX-6 Dx offers good RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) capabilities, enabling scalable, resilient, and easy-to-deploy RoCE solutions. For data storage, ConnectX-6 Dx optimizes a suite of storage accelerations, bringing NVMe-oF target and initiator offloads.
