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Dell Storage Center and Chelsio Deliver High Performance Storage Solutions

Dell Compellent Storage Center (SC) is a storage array that combines several virtualized storage-management applications with hardware to provide an efficient, agile and dynamic data management system, combined with lower hardware, power and cooling costs. Dell SC and Chelsio are partnering to deliver high performance storage solutions for Dell's customers. Chelsio Unified Wire adapters are shipped with the following storage arrays:

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Dell SC Qualified Adapters

Chelsio P/N T6225-CR T62100-CR T520-CR
Version 7.3.1.0
Chelsio P/N T520-BT T540-CR T540-BT
Version 7.3.1.0



Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

Chelsio 1/10/25/40/50/100GbE iWARP adapters enable high virtualized application performance by giving direct access to the data residing on hyper-converged or disaggregated Storage Spaces Direct storage, as well as higher scalability for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). Chelsio iWARP adapters work with any legacy Ethernet switch, thereby enabling incremental Windows Server 2016 installations without requiring a concurrent forklift upgrade of the switch infrastructure or the entire datacenter. This ability allows the use of most cost effective new or existing switch infrastructure with the least amount of support, while enabling an immediate plug-and-play deployment. This enables much more streamlined and simplified configuration of RDMA high-performance networking for Microsoft S2D compared to other Ethernet RDMA networking alternatives.

Microsoft Recommendation

Microsoft recommends iWARP as the safer alternative for S2D  as it does not require any configuration of DCB on network hosts or network switches and can operate over the same distances as any other TCP connection. For more information, refer the below article.

Supported Offload Initiator Adapters

Chelsio P/N T62100-CR T62100-LP-CR T62100-SO-CR T6225-SO-CR T6225-CR
Ports 2x40/50/100G 2x10/25G
Connector Type QSFP28 SFP28
Host Interface PCIe Gen3 x16 PCIe Gen3 x8
Form Factor Half Size Low Profile
Concurr. Conn. 32k 256 32k
Power (Typical) 22W 19W 16W 10W 13W
Airflow 200 LFM (Linear Feet Per minute)
Adapter Type Unified Wire Server Offload CNA Unified Wire
Chelsio P/N T520-BT T520-CR T540-LP-CR T520-SO-CR
Ports 2x100M/1/10G 2x1/10G 4x1/10G 2x1/10G
Connector Type RJ-45 SFP+ Cage
Host Interface PCIe Gen3 x8
Form Factor Low Profile
Concurr. Conn. 32k
Power (Typical) 20W 12W 11W 9W
Airflow 200 LFM (Linear Feet Per minute)
Adapter Type Unified Wire Server Offload
 

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Linux Drivers

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Chelsio Unified Wire v3.19.0.2

04/30/2024
ChelsioUwire-3.19.0.2.tar.gz
3.19.0.2
431.19 MB
63a5a55cbab4937e9dad34bf63343002
README, Release Notes, User Guide

Windows Drivers

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Chelsio Unified Wire InstallShield v6.16.17.0_WIN_006.0.106 - WHQL Certified

05/07/2024
ChelsioUwire_6.16.17.0_WIN_006.0.106.exe
6.16.17.0_WIN_006.0.106
30 MB
d505ed081f05e5da65d50642a485066d
README, Release Notes, User Guide
Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11 Client, Windows 10 Client
Note: The InstallShield installs NDIS function driver (v6.16.17.0) and firmware (v1.27.5.0). The driver supports NIC, SR-IOV, ND, SMB Direct, NVGRE, VXLAN Offload functionalities, PacketDirect, VMMQ (vRSS), RSSv2, S2D, SR, iSCSI, iSER, NVMe and DCB.

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Chelsio Unified Wire v5.3.0.20

06/24/2020
VMW-esx-7.0.0-Chelsio-Drivers-5.3.0.20-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807.zip
5.3.0.20
3.55 MB
294798c459a0ab7902b11d9a5fc66f7d
README, Release Notes, User Guide


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