Neterionhas unveiled a10Gbps (gigabits per second) Ethernetadapter that helps clear traffic logjams in virtualised
datacentres.
The new Neterion X3100 series with single-root I/O
virtualisation (SR-IOV) eliminates I/O bottlenecks by
delivering breakthrough performance in virtualised servers, said
Neterion.
The X3100 series eliminates I/O bottlenecks by enabling multiple
guest operating systems of a virtual environment to share one
physical adapter through the use of physically separate I/O
channels, while preserving all the advantages of virtualisation,
including mobility and manageability.
The X3100 series is the first adapter to support the new
industry-standard, SR-IOV 1.0 (Single-Root I/O Virtualisation).
SR-IOV is a PCI-SIG workgroup extension to PCIe that allows a
single adapter to behave like multiple physical adapters in a
virtualised server. Neterion was a major contributor to this
specification standard.
Bob Wheeler, an analyst at The Linley Group, said,
"Virtualisation is a key technology for reducing total cost and
complexity. However, applications that require high-performance
systems experience I/O bottlenecks that limit their virtualisation
opportunities.
"The IOV standard was designed to eliminate these bottlenecks
and open up all applications to virtualisation."
Wheeler said, "Neterion's SR-IOV compliant 10 GbE adapters, with
support for VMware's NetQueue technology, demonstrate near 10Gbps
line rate throughput under VMware ESX Server 3.5. This kind of
performance makes it possible to virtualise even the most I/O
intensive applications in enterprise datacentres."