Introduction

BlueField2 SmartNIC solutions combine Arm® processing power with advanced network offloads to accelerate a multitude of security, networking and storage applications.
Based on the BlueField2 system-on-chip (SoC) programmable network engine, BlueField2 SmartNICs integrate Mellanox ConnectX®-6 Dx network controller with Arm multicore processors and cryptology options to deliver an innovative and high-performance programmable platform. Through this article, you will be able to quickly set up a simple test lab which will allow you to experiment and explore BlueField2 SmartNIC capabilities. The setup includes a bare metal server hosting BlueField2 25GbE SmartNIC connected back-to-back to another bare metal server with ConnectX-6 Dx NIC.Since DPU is PCIe-compatible device, we can further combine DPU and PCIe Networking together. In R6, we introduce a hardware layer or physical link/fabric layer between the DPU and the CPUs as below. With this layer, we extend the DPU cluster size and also use the DPU management features as well.

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How to use this document

this document is used to guide how to install the OVS-DPDK into SmartNIC and integrate it necessary software with the server

Deployment Architecture

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