Mellanox BridgeX BX4010 – InfiniBand to 10GigE and FC Gateway

The Mellanox BX4010 is the first Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) gateway allowing data centers to deploy I/O consolidation solutions using InfiniBand or Ethernet as the convergence fabric of choice. Networks have increased in size and managing a growing multi-infrastructure has become a daunting task. Enterprise data centers currently use three different networks—Storage Area Networks using Fibre Channel transport for storage access, Local Area Network using Ethernet transport for standard network access and System Area Networks using InfiniBand transport for inter-process communication and high-performance clustering. With the introduction of the BX4010 virtualization systems, enterprises can get rid of this complexity while improving performance, enable flexibility and save energy and cooling costs.

BX4010 enables datacenters to operate in high-performance 40Gb/s network speed on the hosts and connects lower speed Gigabit and 10GigE networks and 2, 4, 8Gb/s Fibre Channel SAN networks. BX4010 connects to existing SAN and LAN and at the same time, providing I/O consolidation.

Benefits

• I/O consolidation on 40Gb/s InfiniBand or on 10GigE
• Removes cabling complexity and consolidates I/O
• Reduces power and cooling costs
• Virtualized Ethernet and Fibre Channel host ports
• 40Gb/s LAN and SAN connections
• QoS provides granular bandwidth allocation
• Simplified – local or remote management

Key Features

• Inbuilt CPU for easy configuration and management
• Uplink: Up to 4 ports of 10/20/40 Gb/s InfiniBand or up to 12 ports of 10GigE
• Downlink: Up to 16 Ports of 2/4/8Gb FC or 12 ports of 10GigE
• 1K vNICs per Ethernet port
• 1K vHBAs per FC port
• Up to 16K, MAC, VLAN and FC WWN addresses
• Dual power supplies for redundancy
• High availability and fail-over mode
• Configuration and management for VLAN, NPIV, MAC and WWN
• Integrated gateway management

Specifications

• CX4 connectors for 10/20/40Gb/s InfiniBand
• SFP+ connectors for 10GbE and 2/4/8G FC
• Optical modules for Ethernet and FC
• Supports QSFP to CX4 hybrid cables
• Supports Twinax cables for 10Gig
• Dimensions: 44mm x 482.5mm x 540mm
• Input range 90-264VAC