Broadcom will also demonstrate its enhanced BCM57712 10GbE C-NIC that supports SR-IOV technology. SR-IOV technology accelerates networking traffic by directly connecting physical hardware to VMs, reducing CPU utilization and creating greater network and application performance.
Highlights/Key Facts:
* The 10GbE server market is experiencing quick growth due to server virtualization and the need to push more networking traffic. iSCSI HBA and networking virtualization technologies accelerate storage and networking traffic while reducing the load on the server CPU to enable greater scalability and performance.
* Broadcom’s 10GbE C-NIC with iSCSI HBA functionality has been shown in multiple environments to deliver an unprecedented industry-leading performance of over one million IOPs.
* Demonstrating a commitment to deliver the most advanced networking and storage technologies in a virtualized server environment, Broadcom will provide key demonstrations at this week’s VMworld 2010 show in San Francisco:
o Broadcom’s 10GbE iSCSI HBA solution, which supports VMware’s vSphere(TM) 4.1 platform with the following capabilities:
+ Is the only full iSCSI ‘in-box’ solution that supports vSphere(TM) 4.1 and provides full iSCSI HBA and iSCSI boot support for vSphere(TM) 4.1 deployments without the need for software driver updates or changes.
+ Provides complete on-chip processing of iSCSI traffic.
+ Frees server CPU resources with increased bandwidth on vSphere(TM) 4.1 which can be utilized not only to enable more virtual machines on a server, but also for better application performance in VMs. High performance applications deployed in the enterprise, the cloud and in data centers that use VMware vSphere(TM) 4.1 within virtual machines also benefit from the additional freed resources.
o Broadcom’s 10GbE BCM57712 C-NIC solution, which supports SR-IOV virtualization technology with the following capabilities:
+ Faster speeds (through a reduction in CPU utilization) allows for more virtual machines and better application performance.
+ Allows for easier migration from 1GbE to 10GbE and enables lower capital and operational costs through infrastructure consolidation.
* Broadcom’s iSCSI HBA and iSCSI boot functionality are available today on Broadcom NetXtreme II 10GbE and 1GbE C-NICs.