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Chelsio Update, Q2 2020

Chelsio T6 adapters enable concurrent secure communication and secure storage with Inline or data-at-rest crypto capabilities. Combined with other built-in capabilities such as TCP/UDP Offload, Traffic Management, and Classification makes T6 the ideal fit for secure CDN (Content Delivery Networks). With the drivers inboxed in all major Operating Systems, and with other code bases such as Open-SSL, the T6 offers a plug-and-play solution. Encrypted communications and storage encryption offload are now readily available features of the NIC.

•   T6 produces consistent 100Gb line rate TLS/SSL performance leveraging a TCP/IP offload (TOE) engine.
•   Web Servers (nginx, Apache etc.) serving thousands of secure Client connections benefit from T6, as well as IPsec based connections.

SoftiWarp, which was recently made available in the Linux Kernel, enables client/initiator/cloud-side connection for applications such as iSER, NVMe-oF, NFSRDMA, and LustreRDMA on any Ethernet adapter. This will enable migration of RDMA applications from the appliance to the cloud. It also enables connections to hardware offloaded solutions on the target side for a robust RDMA-based solution.

Above and beyond what regular NIC’s are targeted for, T6 is ideally suited for below applications:

•   iSCSI Offload at 100Gb
•   NVMe-oF at 100Gb
•   Long distance replication at 100Gb over public or private networks
•   Encrypted communication at 100Gb
•   Storage encryption
•   Azure Stack support
•   Full featured TOE support at 100Gb
•   Classification/filtering offload of up to 1 million flows
•   Traffic shaping/pacing offload

New Products

•   Illumos code for the L2 NIC driver is now inboxed, performance tuned at 100Gb, and fully QA'ed.
•   NVMe-TOE (with or without SPDK) is now fully tuned and QA'ed at 100Gb.
•   NVMe-oF (iWARP) is now fully tuned and QA'ed.
•   Open-SSL support for T6 is now inboxed.
•   Inline IPsec and TLS/kTLS are now inboxed in k.org.
•   Coprocessor IPsec and TLS are now inboxed in k.org.
•   NVMe-oF initiator using soft-iWARP on top of any L2 NIC (to leverage any cloud as the initiator) or using hardware offload on top of T6225-SO-CR CNA was released.
•   iSER initiator using soft-iWARP on top of any L2 NIC (for any cloud use) or using hardware offload on top of T6225-SO-CR CNA was released.
•   New T540-LP-CR adapter provides 4x10GbE offload for iSCSI, TOE, RDMA in low profile, high value form factor.

Recent Publications

•   Chelsio and Ryussi jointly published the performance results using T62100-CR adapters in MoSMB SMB3 server and Windows 10 Client. The combined solution delivered 93 Gbps throughput, 84 Read FPS and 91 Write FPS for 4K frames, making it ideal for cutting edge media workflows.
•   Chelsio published line-rate 99 Gbps L2 NIC throughput in Illumos environment. The driver is inboxed in the illumos kernel and readily enables this extreme networking performance.
•   Chelsio published 100G Soft-iWARP NVMe-oF performance results. With line-rate throughput and 1M IOPS, any L2 NIC can now run iWARP protocol. This results in significant acquisition and operational savings and can achieve adequate performance for initiator applications.

Recent Webinars

•   Chelsio T6 iWARP Adapters with Windows 10 Enterprise Client RDMA and Ryussi MoSMB SMB3 server
•   Ethernet RDMA Update: SoftiWarp Component of Upstream Linux Kernel 5.3

In the Wild

Comparative Evaluation of Ethernet RDMA Fabrics for NVMe-oF

Seagate products achieve USGv6 certification - Seagate hosts with Chelsio Network Controllers certified.

We put the iWARP in NVMe-oF - A Chelsio presentation at NVMe Developer Days Conference 2019.

Netflix Open Connect Appliances - Chelsio Network Controllers shipped with Storage and Flash Appliances.

SMB Direct in Linux - A Microsoft presentation providing an overview and benchmarks for SMB kernel client in Linux.

NVMe/TCP needs good TCP network design - TCP Offload (TOE) devices could reduce NVMe/TCP latency.

NVMe Over TCP Will Take Time to Eclipse RDMA

NVMe-oF with iWARP and NVMe/TCP - A Chelsio presentation at NVMe Developer Days Conference 2018.

NetApp All-flash filers deliver record breaking performance - Using AFF A800 arrays and Chelsio 100GbE iWARP RDMA adapters.

400 Gbps Disk-to-Disk WAN file transfer - NASA HECN team demonstrates using NVMe-oF and Chelsio iWARP RDMA.

NFS/RDMA over iWARP - A Chelsio Presentation at SDC.

NetApp A800 benchmark - Benchmark results using NetApp A800 all-flash storage systems having T6 adapters.

NetApp long distance replication using T6 and iWARP RDMA.

Long distance replication using T6 and iWARP RDMA on Windows.

Comparing the RDMA technologies - An SNIA webcast comparing iWARP and RoCE.

Case Studies

Regional Library System Simplifies Their Data Center with a Windows Server 2016 Solution - S2D deployment using Chelsio iWARP RDMA.

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Improves Health IT ROI - Providing full support for hyper-converged S2D deployments without requiring Top-of-Rack switches to support DCB capabilities.

Chelsio Storage over IP Enable Data Infrastructures - Addressing the various application and workload demands by enabling more robust, productive, effective and efficient data infrastructures.

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