Chapter I. Chelsio Unified Wire
Chelsio Unified Wire for Windows
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1. 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
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 datacenters, cloud service installations and high-
performance computing environments, Chelsio Terminator 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 an easy to use utility developed to provide installation of 64-
bit Windows based drivers and tools for Chelsio's Unified Wire adapters.
It consists of the following component(s):
•
FCoE Storport Miniport Driver
•
Virtual Bus Driver (VBD)
1.2.
Hardware Requirements
The Chelsio Unified Wire supports all x64 architectures supporting PCIE (x4, x8, x16) slots.
AMD CPUs, 64-bit (x86_64/amd64)
Intel CPUs, 64-bit (x86_64)
The Chelsio Unified Wire supports 3.3v PCI bus only. Running an adapter on a
PCI x4 slot is not recommended as performance will be significantly reduced by
the limitations of PCI.
Note
T4 family of adapters are not supported.
Note
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