Mellanox Quantum Plugin

Mellanox supports the OpenStack Folsom/Grizzly releases with open source networking components through Quantum. It delivers higher compute and storage performance and additional functionality, such as NIC based switching to provide better security and isolation for virtual cloud environments.

For additional information about Mellanox Quantum Plugin refer to Mellanox Quantum wiki page.

Mellanox Cinder Plugin

Mellanox provides an OpenStack Storage plugin that enables running storage volume traffic over native RDMA transport, providing 5X faster throughput over standard TCP/IP, while significantly increasing infrastructure efficiency by using less CPU resources.

For additional information about Mellanox Cinder refer to Mellanox Cinder wiki page.

References

1. OpenStack solution page at Mellanox site

2. Source repository

3. Mellanox OFED web page

For more details, please refer your question to openstack@mellanox.com