Dell M4001F User Manual

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InfiniBand Blade Switch I/O Module for PowerEdge M-Series Rev 1.2Mellanox Technologies 71 OverviewThe SwitchX® InfiniBand blade switch I/O module for the PowerEdge M-Series chassis providesa high bandwidth, low latency fabric for Enterprise Data Centers (EDC), High-Performance Com-puting (HPC), and Embedded environments. Based on the 5th generation InfiniBand switch device(1st Generation SwitchX). This I/O module (IOM) delivers up to 56Gb/s at FDR speed and 40 Gb/s at FDR10 and QDR speed full bisectional bandwidth per port. When used in conjunctionwith ConnectX®-3 InfiniBand dual port Mezzanine I/O cards, clustered data bases, parallelizedapplications and transactional services applications these switches will achieve significant perfor-mance improvements resulting in reduced completion time and lower cost per operation.The I/O module comes pre-installed with all necessary firmware, and configured for standardoperation within an InfiniBand fabric, and only requires an InfiniBand compliant Subnet Managerrunning from one of the hosts. All that is required for normal operation is to follow the usual pre-cautions for installation and connection from the switch to the HCAs or other switches. Once con-nected, the Subnet Management software automatically configures the switch and begins utilizingthe switch.It is recommended that Mellanox OpenFabrics software package be installed on all nodes con-nected to the M4001[F, T, Q]. The software package provides a subnet manager and network man-agement tools as well as connectivity software for servers and storage, and is available on theMellanox web site. See Chapter 3 for more information.Basic installation, hot-swapping components and hardware maintenance is covered in “Installationand Basic Operation” on page 11.The M4001F, M4001T, and M4001Q switches have a Hot Swap controller and a PSOC Manage-ment IC.