Specifications
Product
NVIDIA BlueField-2 Ethernet DPU
Ordering Part Number
MBF2H332A-AEEOT
SoC
BlueField-2 P-Series, 8 × Arm Cortex-A72 cores (up to 2.5 GHz)
Network Ports
2 × QSFP56 (200GbE / InfiniBand HDR100)
Ethernet Speeds
200 / 100 / 50 / 40 / 25 / 10 GbE
InfiniBand
HDR100 (100 Gb/s) per port
Host Interface
PCI Express Gen 4.0 x16
On-board Memory
16 GB DDR4 (SoC), 16 GB eMMC boot storage
Variant Options
Crypto Enabled, Secure Boot Disabled (AEEOT)
Datapath
Based on ConnectX-6 Dx; ConnectX-6 Dx offload engine
Programmability
DOCA SDK, DOCA services, Arm applications at the edge of the network
Acceleration
OVS/vSwitch offload, VXLAN/Geneve, IPsec/MACsec, NVMe-oF, RoCEv2, RegEx
Form Factor
PCIe full-height half-length, dual-slot
Typical Use
Virtualized cloud infrastructure, storage, firewalls and AI factory security
Availability
In stock — quote for volume
Overview
The NVIDIA BlueField-2 MBF2H332A-AEEOT is a data-processing unit — a ConnectX-6 Dx network adapter with an array of eight Arm Cortex-A72 cores and 16 GB of DDR4 built onto the same card. It appears in NVIDIA's BlueField-2 user guide hardware tables as the crypto-enabled, secure-boot-disabled variant of the dual-port 200GbE P-Series DPU.
Because the DPU is programmable (DOCA, plus containerised services running on the Arm complex), it can host the infrastructure datapath that would otherwise consume host cores: virtual switching, storage initiators, firewalling, telemetry and tenant isolation. That is why the SN2201-style and AI-factory designs place BlueField-2 DPUs between the servers and the fabric.
QS Compute supplies BlueField-2 DPUs alongside the ConnectX-6 Dx / ConnectX-7 SmartNICs and the BlueField-3 B3220 next-generation parts, plus the QSFP56 cabling and 200G/400G optics.
Key Benefits
Offloads the infrastructure — virtual switching, storage and security run on the DPU's Arm cores, freeing host CPU for the workload. Dual 200GbE / HDR100 ports give high-bandwidth, low-latency fabric connectivity. DOCA programmability means new services deploy as software updates. ConnectX-6 Dx datapath keeps RoCEv2 and NVMe-oF at line rate.
Applications
Virtualized and multi-tenant cloud infrastructure; NVMe-oF and storage initiator offload; distributed firewalls and micro-segmentation; AI factory infrastructure services; and HPC clusters needing per-node 200G connectivity with host offload.
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