Introduction; Features - Chelsio T5 Installation And User Manual

Chapter I. Chelsio Unified Wire

1. Introduction

Thank you for choosing Chelsio T5/T4 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 5 (T5) is Chelsio's next generation of highly integrated, hyper-virtualized
40/10GbE controllers. The T5 is 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 true 40Gb 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.
The T4 adapters can fully offload TCP, UDP, iSCSI, iWARP and FCoE over a single Unified
Wire. The adapters also fully support SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCB, Traffic Management and
Filtering.
Ideal for all data, storage and high performance clustering applications, the T5/T4 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 T5/T4 adapters bring a new level of performance
metrics and functional capabilities to the computer networking industry.
1.1.

Features

Chelsio Unified Wire for Windows is a software package developed to provide 64-bit Windows
based drivers and tools for Chelsio's T5 and T4 Unified Wire adapters.
It consists of the following components:
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NDIS Function driver (NIC)
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NVGRE Offload
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VXLAN Task Offload
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PacketDirect (Kernel Mode and ARM Moderation)
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SMB Direct
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RDMA/NVGRE concurrent (Mode 2)
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NDIS SR-IOV
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Unified Wire Manager (UM)
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UM for Win PE
Chelsio T5/T4 Unified Wire for Windows 8