In addition to supporting SR-IOV, the X3100 family also supports PCI Express Multi-Function Mode, which provides the same high I/O throughput for up to eight virtual interfaces.
This unique architecture allows the X3110 and X3120 to deliver near-native I/O performance to Guests, while preserving all the benefits of virtualization.
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Taking advantage of SR-IOV, Exar's Neterion X3100 family supports up to seventeen independent virtual interfaces, with each virtual interface having the dedicated hardware resources of a full NIC, and the ability to support direct access from any Guest OS using standard drivers. The X3110 single port and X3120 dual port server adapters provide the ability to virtualize even the most demanding I/O-intensive applications. SR-IOV is an extension to the PCI Express standard that enables a single PCI Express adapter to behave simultaneously as multiple independent devices using a shared PCI Express physical interface.Įxar's Neterion X3100 server adapters leverage SR-IOV to enable IT organizations using the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 to take full advantage of Exar's unprecedented level of hardware acceleration for virtualization.
, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) today announced integrated support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, for Exar's third generation of Neterion X3100 10 Gigabit Ethernet server adapters which includes full compatibility with Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).