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Abstract
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 QSFP112 2-Port 200Gb DPU Adapter is an advanced compute platform that enables software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures. With 16 Arm cores, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and two ports of 200Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand network connectivity, BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) offloads, accelerates, and isolates software-defined networking, storage, security, and management functions.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the BlueField-3 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 BlueField-3 adapter and consider its use in IT solutions.
Change History
Changes in the November 3, 2023 update:
- Added OS support information - Operating system support section
Introduction
The ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 QSFP112 2-Port 200Gb DPU Adapter is an advanced compute platform that enables software-defined, hardware-accelerated IT infrastructures. With 16 Arm cores, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and two ports of 200Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand network connectivity, BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU) offloads, accelerates, and isolates software-defined networking, storage, security, and management functions.
The BlueField-3 adapter is a full-height half-length (FHHL) adapter as shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 QSFP112 2-Port 200Gb DPU Adapter
Did you know?
Powered by NVIDIA DOCA™, BlueField-3 enables full data center programmability through open APIs and an optimized developer experience. Top ISV providers and server makers are using DOCA for accelerating innovation and achieving better business outcomes with BlueField DPUs. Paired with NVIDIA GPUs, BlueField-3 secures and accelerates cloud-native computing platforms.
Compared to the BlueField-2 adapter, the BlueField-3 provides 4X more compute power, up to 4X faster crypto acceleration, 2X faster storage processing, and 4X more memory bandwidth, all while delivering full backward compatibility through the NVIDIA DOCA™ software framework.
Part number information
The following table shows the part number for the adapter and auxiliary power cable. The power cable is required to provide the power needed by the adapter.
| Part number | Feature code | Description | Vendor part number |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlueField-3 adapter | |||
| 4XC7A87752 | BVBG | ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 VPI QSFP112 2P 200G PCIe Gen5 x16 B3220 | 900-9D3B6-00CV-AA0 (model B3220) |
| Auxiliary power cable | |||
| CTO only | BXB6 | ThinkSystem SR675 V3 BlueField-3 Power Cable | Not applicable |
The part number includes the following:
- One adapter with a full-height (3U) adapter bracket
- Documentation
Supported transceivers and cables
This section lists the supported transceivers and cables.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 100Gb transceivers | ||
| 7G17A03539 | AV1D | Lenovo 100GBase-SR4 QSFP28 Transceiver |
| 4M27A67042 | BFH1 | Lenovo 100Gb SR4 QSFP28 Ethernet Transceiver |
| 200Gb transceivers | ||
| 4TC7A81831 | BQJZ | ThinkSystem NDR/NDR200 QSFP112 IB Multi Mode Solo-Transceiver |
| Converters | ||
| 4G17A10853 | B306 | Mellanox QSA 100G to 25G Cable Adapter |
The following table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables (these cables require a 10 GbE SFP+ SR or 25 GbE SFP28 SR transceiver) | ||
| 00MN499 | ASR5 | Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN502 | ASR6 | Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN505 | ASR7 | Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN508 | ASR8 | Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN511 | ASR9 | Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN514 | ASRA | Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN517 | ASRB | Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| 00MN520 | ASRC | Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable |
| SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables | ||
| 00YL634 | ATYX | Lenovo 1m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL637 | ATYY | Lenovo 3m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL640 | ATYZ | Lenovo 5m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL643 | ATZ0 | Lenovo 7m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL646 | ATZ1 | Lenovo 15m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| 00YL649 | ATZ2 | Lenovo 20m SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable |
| SFP28 25Gb Active Optical Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03541 | AV1F | Lenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03542 | AV1G | Lenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03543 | AV1H | Lenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03544 | AV1J | Lenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03545 | AV1K | Lenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| QSFP28 100Gb Ethernet Active Optical Cables | ||
| 4Z57A10844 | B2UZ | Lenovo 1m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03546 | AV1L | Lenovo 3m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03547 | AV1M | Lenovo 5m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03548 | AV1N | Lenovo 10m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03549 | AV1P | Lenovo 15m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03550 | AV1Q | Lenovo 20m 100G QSFP28 Active Optical Cable |
| 100G MPO OM4 MMF Cables (these cables require a transceiver) | ||
| 7Z57A03567 | AV25 | Lenovo 5m MPO-MPO OM4 MMF Cable |
| 7Z57A03568 | AV26 | Lenovo 7m MPO-MPO OM4 MMF Cable |
| 7Z57A03569 | AV27 | Lenovo 10m MPO-MPO OM4 MMF Cable |
| 7Z57A03570 | AV28 | Lenovo 15m MPO-MPO OM4 MMF Cable |
| 7Z57A03571 | AV29 | Lenovo 20m MPO-MPO OM4 MMF Cable |
| 7Z57A03572 | AV2A | Lenovo 30m MPO-MPO OM4 MMF Cable |
| QSFP28 100Gb Ethernet Breakout Active Optical Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03551 | AV1R | Lenovo 3m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03552 | AV1S | Lenovo 5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03553 | AV1T | Lenovo 10m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03554 | AV1U | Lenovo 15m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| 7Z57A03555 | AV1V | Lenovo 20m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable |
| OM4 LC to LC Cables (these cables require a transceiver) | ||
| 4Z57A10845 | B2P9 | Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10846 | B2PA | Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10847 | B2PB | Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10848 | B2PC | Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10849 | B2PD | Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10850 | B2PE | Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10851 | B2PF | Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| 4Z57A10852 | B2PG | Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable |
| QSFP56 HDR IB Optical Cables | ||
| 4Z57A14188 | B4QW | 3m Mellanox HDR IB Active Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14189 | B4QX | 5m Mellanox HDR IB Active Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14190 | B4QY | 10m Mellanox HDR IB Active Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14191 | B4QZ | 15m Mellanox HDR IB Active Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14192 | B4R0 | 20m Mellanox HDR IB Active Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A16016 | B68P | 30m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A16017 | B68N | 50m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A16018 | B68M | 100m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A72553 | BFXR | 3m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72554 | BFXS | 5m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72555 | BFXT | 10m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72556 | BFXU | 15m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72557 | BFXV | 20m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72558 | BFXW | 30m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72559 | BFXX | 50m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72560 | BFXY | 100m Mellanox HDR IB Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| QSFP56 HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Optical Splitter Cables | ||
| 4Z57A14196 | B4R4 | 3m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14197 | B4R5 | 5m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14198 | B4R6 | 10m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14199 | B4R7 | 15m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14214 | B4R8 | 20m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A11490 | B68K | 30m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A72561 | BFXZ | 3m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72562 | BFY0 | 5m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72563 | BFY1 | 10m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72564 | BFY2 | 15m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72565 | BFY3 | 20m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| 4Z57A72566 | BFY4 | 30m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Optical QSFP56 Low Latency Cable |
| Mellanox NDR Multi Mode Fibre Cables | ||
| 4X97A81836 | BQK4 | Lenovo 3m NVIDIA NDR to 2x NDR200 Multi Mode Optical Cable |
| 4X97A81837 | BQK5 | Lenovo 5m NVIDIA NDR to 2x NDR200 Multi Mode Optical Cable |
| 4X97A81838 | BQK6 | Lenovo 7m NVIDIA NDR to 2x NDR200 Multi Mode MPO12 APC Optical Cable |
| 4X97A81839 | BQK7 | Lenovo 10m NVIDIA NDR to 2x NDR200 Multi Mode Optical Cable |
| 4X97A81840 | BQK8 | Lenovo 20m NVIDIA NDR to 2x NDR200 Multi Mode Optical Cable |
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.
| Part number | Feature code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SFP+ 10Gb Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 00D6288 | A3RG | 0.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 90Y9427 | A1PH | 1m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 00AY764 | A51N | 1.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 00AY765 | A51P | 2m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 90Y9430 | A1PJ | 3m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 90Y9433 | A1PK | 5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| 00D6151 | A3RH | 7m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable |
| SFP28 25Gb Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03557 | AV1W | Lenovo 1m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03558 | AV1X | Lenovo 3m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03559 | AV1Y | Lenovo 5m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable |
| QSFP28 100Gb Ethernet Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03561 | AV1Z | Lenovo 1m Passive 100G QSFP28 DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03562 | AV20 | Lenovo 3m Passive 100G QSFP28 DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03563 | AV21 | Lenovo 5m Passive 100G QSFP28 DAC Cable |
| QSFP28 100G-to-4x25G Ethernet Breakout Cables | ||
| 7Z57A03564 | AV22 | Lenovo 1m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 4Z57A85043 | BS32 | Lenovo 1.5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 4Z57A85044 | BS33 | Lenovo 2m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03565 | AV23 | Lenovo 3m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| 7Z57A03566 | AV24 | Lenovo 5m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable |
| QSFP56 HDR InfiniBand Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 4Z57A14182 | B4QQ | 0.5m Mellanox HDR IB Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14183 | B4QR | 1m Mellanox HDR IB Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14184 | B4QS | 1.5m Mellanox HDR IB Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14185 | B4QT | 2m Mellanox HDR IB Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| QSFP56 HDR InfiniBand to 2x HDR100 Passive DAC Splitter Cables | ||
| 4Z57A14193 | B4R1 | 1m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A14194 | B4R2 | 1.5m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| 4Z57A11477 | B68L | 2m Mellanox HDR IB to 2x HDR100 Splitter Passive Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| QSFP56 200Gb Ethernet Passive DAC Cables | ||
| 4X97A11113 | BF6W | Lenovo 1m Passive 200G QSFP56 Ethernet DAC Cable |
| 4X97A12613 | BF92 | Lenovo 3m Passive 200G QSFP56 Ethernet DAC Cable |
| QSFP56 HDR InfiniBand Active DAC Cables | ||
| 4X97A12610 | BCQW | 3m Mellanox HDR IB Active Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| 4X97A12611 | BCQX | 4m Mellanox HDR IB Active Copper QSFP56 Cable |
| Mellanox NDRx2 OSFP800 to 4x NDR200 QSFP112 Splitter Copper Cables | ||
| 4X97A81832 | BQK0 | Lenovo 1m NVIDIA NDRx2 OSFP800 to 4x NDR200 QSFP112 Passive Copper Splitter Cable |
| 4X97A81833 | BQK1 | Lenovo 1.5m NVIDIA NDRx2 OSFP800 to 4x NDR200 QSFP112 Passive Copper Splitter Cable |
| 4X97A81834 | BQK2 | Lenovo 2m NVIDIA NDRx2 OSFP800 to 4x NDR200 QSFP112 Passive Copper Splitter Cable |
| 4X97A81835 | BQK3 | Lenovo 3m NVIDIA NDRx2 OSFP800 to 4x NDR200 QSFP112 Passive Copper Splitter Cable |
Workloads
The BlueField-3 adapter is suitable for the following workload types:
- Cloud Networking: Cloud overlay, SDN acceleration, NAT, load balancer, NFV, video streaming
- Storage: NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), NVMe/ TCP™, elastic storage, hyper converged infrastructure (HCI)
- Security: Distributed next- generation firewall, IDS/ IPS, root of trust, micro- segmentation, DDOS prevention
- HPC / AI: Cloud-native supercomputing, multi-tenancy and security, communication accelerations
- Telco and Edge: Cloud RAN, virtualized edge gateways, VNF acceleration, edge microservers
Technical specifications
The BlueField-3 adapter has the following technical specifications:
Adapter specifications
- 2 ports using 2x QSFP112 cages, each providing 200Gb/s Ethernet or NDR InfiniBand connectivity
- Based on a ConnectX-7 networking subsystem
- PCIe Gen5 x16 host interface
- Support for an Auxiliary Card which provides an additional x16 host connection for Sockets Direct (SharedIO) support
- 150W maximum power consumption
Compute and Memory
- Arm CPU cores
- Up to 16 Arm v8.2+ A78 Hercules cores (64-bit)
- 8MB L2 cache
- 16MB LLC system cache
- Programmable Datapath Accelerator
- 16 cores, 256 threads
- Programmability through DOCA
- Heavy multi-threading applications acceleration
- DDR DIMM support
- Dual DDR5 5600MT/s DRAM controllers
- 32GB on-board DDR5
- ECC error protection support
Networking protocol support
- InfiniBand: IBTA v1.5(a) (Auto-Negotiation):
- NDR200 (2 lanes x 100Gb/s per lane)
- HDR (50Gb/s per lane)
- HDR100 (2 lane x 50Gb/s per lane)
- EDR (25Gb/s per lane)
- FDR (14.0625Gb/s per lane)
- 1X/2X/4X SDR (2.5Gb/s per lane).
- Ethernet:
- 200GAUI-2 C2M, 200GAUI-4 C2M, 200GBASE-CR4
- 100GAUI-2 C2M, 100GAUI-1 C2M, 100GBASE-CR4, 100GBASE-CR2, 100GBASE-CR1
- 50GAUI-2 C2M, 50GAUI-1 C2M, 50GBASE-CR, 50GBASE-R2
- 40GBASE-CR4, 40GBASE-R2
- 25GBASE-R
- 10GBASE-R, 10GBASE-CX4
- 1000BASE-CX, CAUI-4 C2M, 25GAUI C2M, XLAUI C2M , XLPPI, SFI
Hardware Accelerations
- Security
- Platform security
- Secure boot with hardware root-of-trust (RoT)
- Secure firmware update
- On-board flash encryption
- Device attestation
- Functional isolation layer
- Regular expression (RegEx) matching processor
- IPsec/TLS/MACSec 128/256-bit data-in-motion encryption
- PSP security protocol (PSP)
- AES-GCM 128/256bit key
- AES-XTS 256/512bit data-at-rest encryption
- Connection tracking for statefull firewall
- Public key accelerator (PKA)
- True random number generator (TRNG)
- Storage
- BlueField SNAP - Elastic block storage - NVMe and VirtIO-blk
- NVMe-oF and NVMe/TCP acceleration
- Decompression engine
- Erasure coding for RAID implementation
- Networking
- RoCE, Zero Touch RoCE
- ASAP² - Accelerated Switch and Packet Processing® for SDN and VNF acceleration
- Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- VirtIO acceleration
- Overlay network acceleration
- VXLAN, Geneve, NVGRE
- Programmable flexible parser: user-defined classification
- Connection tracking (L4 firewall)
- Flow mirroring, sampling and statistics
- Header rewrite
- Hierarchical QoS
- Stateless TCP offloads
- HPC/AI Accelerations
- HPC / AI All-to-All engine
- NVIDIA GPUDirect
- NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS)
- HPC MPI Tag Matching
Additional features
- Advanced Timing and Synchronization
- IEEE 1588v2 (any profile)
- G.8273.2 Class C
- PTP hardware clock (PHC)
- Line rate hardware timestamp
- SyncE
- G.8262.1 (eEEC)
- Configurable PPS In and PPS Out
- Time triggered scheduling
- Time-based SDN acceleration
- Boot Options
- Secure boot (RSA authenticated)
- Remote boot over Ethernet
- Remote boot over iSCSI
- PXE and UEFI
- Management
- 1GbE out-of-band management port via the RJ45 port (can be disabled)
- In-band management via the two network ports (can be disabled)
- NC-SI, MCTP over SMBus, and MCTP over PCIe
- IPMI management interface
- PLDM for Monitor and Control DSP0248
- PLDM for Firmware Update DSP026
- I2C interface for device control and configuration
- SPI interface to flash
- eMMC memory controller
- UART via the onboard 20-pin NCSI/UART connector
- USB via an onboard 4-pin connector
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
| Part Number | Description | 2S AMD V3 | 2S Intel V3 | 4S 8S Intel V3 | Multi Node | GPU Rich | 1S V3 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR635 V3 (7D9H / 7D9G) |
SR655 V3 (7D9F / 7D9E) |
SR645 V3 (7D9D / 7D9C) |
SR665 V3 (7D9B / 7D9A) |
ST650 V3 (7D7B / 7D7A) |
SR630 V3 (7D72 / 7D73) |
SR650 V3 (7D75 / 7D76) |
SR850 V3 (7D97 / 7D96) |
SR860 V3 (7D94 / 7D93) |
SR950 V3 (7DC5 / 7DC4) |
SD535 V3 (7DD8 / 7DD1) |
SD530 V3 (7DDA / 7DD3) |
SD550 V3 (7DD9 / 7DD2) |
SR670 V2 (7Z22 / 7Z23) |
SR675 V3 (7D9Q / 7D9R) |
SR680a V3 (7DHE) |
SR685a V3 (7DHC) |
ST250 V3 (7DCF / 7DCE) |
SR250 V3 (7DCM / 7DCL) |
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| 4XC7A87752 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 VPI QSFP112 2P 200G PCIe Gen5 x16 B3220 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | Edge | Super Computing | 1S Intel V2 | 2S Intel V2 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SE350 (7Z46 / 7D1X) |
SE350 V2 (7DA9) |
SE360 V2 (7DAM) |
SE450 (7D8T) |
SE455 V3 (7DBY) |
SD665 V3 (7D9P) |
SD665-N V3 (7DAZ) |
SD650 V3 (7D7M) |
SD650-I V3 (7D7L) |
SD650-N V3 (7D7N) |
ST50 V2 (7D8K / 7D8J) |
ST250 V2 (7D8G / 7D8F) |
SR250 V2 (7D7R / 7D7Q) |
ST650 V2 (7Z75 / 7Z74) |
SR630 V2 (7Z70 / 7Z71) |
SR650 V2 (7Z72 / 7Z73) |
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| 4XC7A87752 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 VPI QSFP112 2P 200G PCIe Gen5 x16 B3220 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | AMD V1 | Dense V2 | 4S V2 | 8S | 4S V1 | 1S Intel V1 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SR635 (7Y98 / 7Y99) |
SR655 (7Y00 / 7Z01) |
SR655 Client OS |
SR645 (7D2Y / 7D2X) |
SR665 (7D2W / 7D2V) |
SD630 V2 (7D1K) |
SD650 V2 (7D1M) |
SD650-N V2 (7D1N) |
SN550 V2 (7Z69) |
SR850 V2 (7D31 / 7D32) |
SR860 V2 (7Z59 / 7Z60) |
SR950 (7X11 / 7X12) |
SR850 (7X18 / 7X19) |
SR850P (7D2F / 2D2G) |
SR860 (7X69 / 7X70) |
ST50 (7Y48 / 7Y50) |
ST250 (7Y45 / 7Y46) |
SR150 (7Y54) |
SR250 (7Y52 / 7Y51) |
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| 4XC7A87752 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 VPI QSFP112 2P 200G PCIe Gen5 x16 B3220 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Part Number | Description | 2S Intel V1 | Dense V1 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST550 (7X09 / 7X10) |
SR530 (7X07 / 7X08) |
SR550 (7X03 / 7X04) |
SR570 (7Y02 / 7Y03) |
SR590 (7X98 / 7X99) |
SR630 (7X01 / 7X02) |
SR650 (7X05 / 7X06) |
SR670 (7Y36 / 7Y37) |
SD530 (7X21) |
SD650 (7X58) |
SN550 (7X16) |
SN850 (7X15) |
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| 4XC7A87752 | ThinkSystem NVIDIA BlueField-3 VPI QSFP112 2P 200G PCIe Gen5 x16 B3220 | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
Operating system support
The adapter supports the operating systems listed in the following table.
Tip: This table is automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
| Operating systems | SR675 V3 |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 | Y |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 | Y |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Y |
Regulatory approvals
The BlueField-3 adapter has the following hardware certifications:
- Safety: CB / cTUVus / CE
- EMC: CE / FCC / VCCI / ICES / RCM
- RoHS compliant
Physical specifications
The BlueField-3 adapter has the following physical specifications:
- Length: 168 mm (6.6 inches)
- Height: 111 mm (4.4 inches)
Operating environment
The BlueField-3 adapter is supported in the following environment:
- Temperature:
- Operating: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F)
- Storage: -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F)
- Humidity:
- Operating: 10% to 85%
- Storage: 10% to 90%
Warranty
One year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, this adapter assumes the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrades.
Related information
For more information, refer to these documents:
- ServerProven compatibility
https://serverproven.lenovo.com/ - NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units product page
https://www.nvidia.com/dpu - NVIDIA DOCA
https://developer.nvidia.com/networking/doca - NVIDIA BlueField-3 User Guide:
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/BlueField3DPU - NVIDIA BlueField-3 Software User Guide
https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/BlueFieldDPUOSLatest
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Changes in the November 3, 2023 update:
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First published: September 5, 2023
