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mellanox-plugin
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Plugin description
Beginning with version 5.1, Fuel can configure Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro network
adapters to accelerate the performance of compute and storage traffic.
This implements the following performance enhancements:
- Compute nodes use SR-IOV based networking.
- Cinder nodes use iSER block storage as the iSCSI transport rather than the
default iSCSI over TCP.
These features reduce CPU overhead, boost throughput, reduce latency, and
enable network traffic to bypass the software switch layer (e.g. Open vSwitch).
Starting with version 6.1, Mellanox plugin can deploy those features over
Infiniband network as well.
*Requirements*
The Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro adapters family supports up to 40/56GbE.
To reach 56 GbE speed in your network with ConnectX-3 Pro adapters, you must
use Mellanox Ethernet / Infiniband switches (e.g. SX1036) with the additional
56GbE license. The switch ports should be configured specifically to use 56GbE
speed. No additional configuration is required on the adapter side.
For additional information about how to run in 56GbE speed, see [HowTo
Configure 56GbE Link on Mellanox Adapters and Switches](http://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-1460).
For detailed setup configuration and BOM (Bill of Material) requirements please see
[Fuel Ethernet cloud details](https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-1474) or
[Fuel Infiniband cloud details](https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-2036).
*Limitations*
- OVS bonding and Mellanox SR-IOV based networking over the Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro
adapter family are not supported.
- In order to use the SR-IOV feature, one should choose KVM hypervisor and
"Neutron with Vlan segmentation" in the Network settings tab.

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title: Mellanox Openstack features
# Plugin version
version: 0.2.25
version: 0.2.26
# Description
description: Enable features over Mellanox hardware