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Chelsio Certified for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
 
We’re very excited to share major milestones recently achieved by our T5 Unified Wire solution for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 Client environments.
 
Chelsio recently announced that its line of Terminator 5 (T5) 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) iWARP (RDMA/TCP) enabled Unified Wire adapters have achieved “Certified for Windows Server 2016” hardware certification. Chelsio iWARP enabled Unified Wire adapters power a range of Windows Server 2016 capabilities including Storage Spaces Direct software-defined storage, Storage Replica for disaster recovery, SMB Direct for high performance file access, Network Direct for Windows HPC deployments, hardware offloaded iSCSI initiator for SAN applications, and Nano Server for cloud applications.

Chelsio also announced that its line of Terminator 5 (T5) Unified Wire adapters have achieved “Certified for Windows 10 Enterprise” hardware certification for Windows 10 Enterprise Client RDMA feature enabling high-speed access to Windows Server using SMB Direct – the first RDMA adapter to do so. The Windows 10 Enterprise Client RDMA feature provides I/O-intensive desktop applications, such as Video post-production, Oil/Gas and Computer-Aided Design applications, with high-speed access to Windows Server enabled by SMB Direct networking. As a result, customers using Windows 10 Enterprise for professional applications will see dramatic performance improvements while taking advantage of the ease of use and low cost of ownership of Chelsio iWARP.
 
Microsoft recently published:
  • blog on a 16-node hyper-converged S2D configuration powered by Chelsio 40GbE iWARP delivering an aggregate of ~5M IOPS!
  • blog post on deploying a 3-node S2D/40GbE iWARP configuration using VM Fleet.
  • blog post on 40Gb iWARP RDMA performance for storage applications
Chelsio announced its next generation Terminator silicon, T6 which supports:
  • 1/10/25/40/50/100GbE.
  • Integrated encryption, either in co-processor or inline mode.
  • T5 software AS-IS, preserving the existing software investment.
  • PCI Gen3 x 16 host interface.
  • Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10.
Latest Videos Recent Publications
Chelsio added a number of News reports and white papers to its technical library, including:
  • Chelsio published a Technical Brief detailing the dramatic performance improvements for I/O-intensive professional workstations applications provided by T5 iWARP support of Windows 10 Enterprise Client RDMA capability.

  • Chelsio published a quick start guide to configure Storage Spaces Direct using iWARP RDMA solution in under 20 minutes with any legacy switch with no special settings or uniform switch requirements in the extended datacenter.

  • Chelsio published a paper demonstrating 5M IOPS Performance with Storage Spaces Direct. This highlights how Storage Spaces Direct, combined with advanced flash-based storage connected by Chelsio’s 40GbE iWARP networking solution, helps users build faster, easy-to- scale and reliable storage for their private cloud deployments.

  • Chelsio published a paper highlighting the misconceptions and the reality of Resilient RoCE and the reasons to choose the mature, robust, scalable and plug-n-play Chelsio iWARP solution.

  • Chelsio published a report on NVMe over 40 GbE iWARP. The results show 1.2M IOPs, line rate throughput, and ~12 microseconds incremental latency for accessing remote devices.

  • Chelsio published a quick start guide to configure the Chelsio NVMe Fabrics solution with ease in under 20 minutes with any legacy switch with no special settings or uniform switch requirements in the extended datacenter.

  • Chelsio published a report on 40GbE iSCSI. The results show 5M IOPs and line rate bandwidth.

  • Chelsio published a quick start guide to configure the Chelsio iSCSI solution with ease in under 20 minutes with any legacy switch.


Learn More
  • See a complete list of recent Chelsio newsletters here.

  • See a complete list of recent Chelsio white papers here.

  • See a complete list of Chelsio performance reports here.

  • See a complete list of Competitive Analysis reports here.

  • See a complete list of Videos here.

  • See a complete list of Webinars here.


In the Wild

ClearPointe case study, utilizing Chelsio 40GbE iWARP adapters, demonstrates the performance of Windows Server Storage Spaces for cloud storage.

Chelsio/Microsoft Webinar

Register for a webinar on October 11, 2016 10AM PST on a review of a performance test of Windows Server 2016 S2D using the Chelsio T5 40GbE iWARP RDMA adapters that showed 5M IOPS performance.

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Shows and Conferences

Chelsio will participate at:

Storage Developer Conference,
Santa Clara, CA, Sep. 19-22

Microsoft Ignite (Booth 2373),
Atlanta, GA, Sep. 25-30

Latest Software and Drivers

T5 Unified Wire v5.0.0.66 for Windows Server 2016, Windows Nano Server 2016 and Windows 10 Anniversary Update Client – WHQL Certified

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