Introduction; Features - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter I. Chelsio Unified Wire

Introduction

Thank you for choosing Chelsio Unified Wire adapters. These high speed, single chip, single
firmware cards provide enterprises and data centers with high performance solutions for various
Network and Storage related requirements.
The Terminator series is Chelsio's next generation of highly integrated, hyper-virtualized
1/10/25/40/50/100GbE controllers. The adapters are built around a programmable protocol-
processing engine, with full offload of a complete Unified Wire solution comprising NIC, TOE,
iWARP RDMA, iSCSI, FCoE and NAT support. It scales to true 100Gb line rate operation from a
single TCP connection to thousands of connections, and allows simultaneous low latency and
high bandwidth operation thanks to multiple physical channels through the ASIC.
Ideal for all data, storage and high-performance clustering applications, the Unified Wire
adapters enable a unified fabric over a single wire by simultaneously running all unmodified IP
sockets, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand applications over Ethernet at line rate.
Designed for deployment in virtualized data centers, cloud service installations and high-
performance computing environments, Chelsio adapters bring a new level of performance metrics
and functional capabilities to the computer networking industry.
Chelsio Unified Wire software comes in two formats: Source code and RPM package forms.
Installing from source requires compiling the package to generate the necessary binaries. You
can choose this method when you are using a custom-built kernel. You can also install the
package using the interactive GUI installer. In other cases, download the RPM package specific
to your operating system and follow the steps mentioned to install the package. Please note that
the OFED software required to install Chelsio iWARP driver comes bundled in both source as well
as RPM packages.
This document describes the installation, use and maintenance of Unified Wire software and
its various components.
1.1.

Features

The Chelsio Unified Wire package uses a single command to install various drivers and utilities.
It consists of the following software:
Network (NIC/TOE)
Virtual Function Network (vNIC)
iWARP (RDMA)
iSER
WD-UDP
WD-TOE
NVMe-oF
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