All cards in the system should be planned with the same airflow direction.
Airflow Requirements
ConnectX-5 adapter cards are offered with two airflow patterns: from the heatsink to the network
ports, and vice versa, as shown below.
Please refer to the Specifications
section for airflow numbers for each specific card model.
Airflow from the heatsink to the network ports:
Airflow from the network ports to the heatsink:
Software Requirements
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See Operating Systems/Distributions section under the Introduction section.
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Software Stacks - Mellanox OpenFabric software package MLNX_OFED for Linux, WinOF-2 for
Windows, and VMware. See the Driver Installation
section.