Suite of management tools for Exar's family of 10GbE adapters

Exar has made available a suite of management tools for its Neterion X3100 family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapters running with VMware ESX 4.1. The new management suite enables VMware users to configure Exar's advanced I/O virtualization features.

The tool suite for the X3110 single port and X3120 dual port NICs provides a user-friendly management interface. This management feature allows virtual servers to provision resources in real time to meet changing networking requirements. Exar's new management tool suite complements the hardware architecture of the X3100 family, which supports up to seventeen independent virtual interfaces. Each virtual interface has the dedicated hardware resources of a complete NIC and includes multiple stateless hypervisor and protocol offloads for maximum CPU performance. The X3100 offers ESX users hardware-based enforcement of service levels that guarantees bandwidth and QoS requirements, and enables near native I/O performance for guests.

"The X3100 family provides the unique ability to execute I/O intensive applications in virtualized data center environments without compromising performance or service level agreements," said John Williams, Exar's vice president of Datacom and Storage. "This powerful suite of management tools simplifies access to the best-in-class virtualization capabilities provided by the Exar 10 GbE NIC architecture."

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