Nvidia BlueField-3 User Manual

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3.2.8 USB 4-pin RA Connector
The USB 4-pin RA USB connector is used to load operating system images. Use a 4-pin male
connector to a male Type-A cable to connect to the board.
3.2.9 1GbE OOB Management Interface
The DPU Controller incorporates a 1GbE RJ45 out-of-band port that allows the network operator to
establish trust boundaries in accessing the management function to apply it to network resources. It
can also be used to ensure management connectivity (including the ability to determine the status
of any network component) independent of other in-band network components' status.
3.2.9.1 1GbE OOB Management LEDs Interface
Two OOB management LEDs, one Green and one Yellow, behave as described in the table below.
Green LED Yellow LED Link/Activity
OFF OFF Link off
ON OFF 1 Gb/s link / No activity
Blinking OFF 1 Gb/s link / Activity (RX,TX)
OFF ON Not supported
OFF Blinking
ON ON
Blinking Blinking
It is prohibited to connect male-to-male to host, it is only used for a disk on key.
The male connector to the male Type-A cable is not included in the shipped DPU Controller
card box and should be ordered separately as part of the accessories kit (P/N: MBF35-DKIT).
For DPU Controllers with integrated BMC: 1GbE OOB Management can be performed via the
integrated BMC.

Nvidia BlueField-3 Specifications

General

Product Type	DPU (Data Processing Unit)
Power Consumption	Up to 75W
Manufacturing Process	7nm
Operating Temperature	0°C to 70°C
Virtualization	SR-IOV, Virtio
Target Applications	Cloud, Networking, Storage
Memory	Up to 16 GB DDR4
Memory Bandwidth	Up to 200 GB/s
Networking	Up to 400 GbE
PCIe	PCIe Gen4 x16
Storage Acceleration	NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)
Security	Hardware root of trust, Secure boot
Form Factor	PCIe Card
Acceleration Engines	Networking, Storage, Security
Software Support	NVIDIA DOCA
Cache	L1, L2, L3 caches