The Mellanox BF1500/BF1600 BlueField Dual Port 100Gb/s Controller Card is the perfect solution for managing NVMe storage drives in storage and hyperconverged systems. BlueField Dual Port 100Gb/s Controller Card delivers the highest NVMe-oF target performance reducing TCO and increasing ROI.

Boosting Storage Performance

Three main trends are driving today's storage OEM market. OEMs seek innovative scalable and costeffective storage solution designs. In addition storage companies strive to extend product lifetimes and reduce TCO by reusing existing designs. Finally storage vendors turn to NVMe-oF based solutions as these provide storage scalability and easy migration to the cloud. Mellanox is a leading provider of NVMe-oF network adapters. Mellanox was first to market with 25 40 50 and 100 GbE adapters and is leading the fifth generation Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) products which are at the base of NVMe-oF technology. By deploying Mellanox BF1500/BF1600 Controller Cards customers are taking advantage of Mellanox's vast and proven success in RoCE and NVMe-oF deployments.

BlueField Data Processing Unit (DPU)

Mellanox BlueField is a highly efficient controller optimized for NVMe storage systems Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) cloud and AI workloads.

Ideal solution for JBOF and JBOD systems

BlueField DPU integrates all the discrete components of a storage system appliance into a single chip (CPU PCIe switch and network controller) making it the premier solution for building Just-a-Bunch-OfFlash (JBOF) systems All-Flash-Array and storage appliances for NVMe over Fabrics. With an integrated NVMe-oF offload accelerator the BlueField DPU gives the BF1500/BF1600 Controller Card a superior performance advantage over existing JBOF systems significantly reducing storage transaction latency while increasing IOPs (I/O operations per second).

Key Benefits

BF1500/BF1600 Controller Cards are standard PCIe cards that can transform existing JBOF systems into NVMe-oF compliant solutions simply by plugging the cards into PCIe slots. BF1500 supports up to 16 lanes PCIe Gen3.0/4.0 and BF1600 supports up to 32 PCIe Gen3.0/4.0 lanes. While BF1600 enables connectivity for up to 16 SSD drives without the need for an external PCIe switch. The BF1500 must be connected through a PCIe switch to SSD devices. The small form factor of the cards allows customers to install multiple BlueField Controller Cards in a single system to support a larger number of SSDs as well as high-availability storage architecture. BF1500/BF1600 Controller Cards offers a wide range of dedicated offloads to maximize virtualization scalability and efficiency via a powerful blend of hardware accelerators embedded software and fully integrated advanced network capabilities. The integration of crypto engines within the BlueField BF1500/BF1600 Controller Cards simplifies the implementation of security applications. These enhanced security capabilities reduce the threat of exposure and minimize risk while enabling real-time prevention detection and responses to potential threats. BlueField also offers cost-effective and integrative solutions for Machine Learning appliances enabling efficient data delivery for real-time analytics and data insights based on superior RDMA and GPUDirect ® RDMA technologies. Support for PCIe Gen4.0 helps future-proof the next generation of high performance GPU cards.