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Solarflare Server Adapter
User Guide
Linux Guest Bandwidth
Table 87 identifies bandwidth figures recorded for 5 TCP streams per port, per direction, between
each pair of VMs on the two servers (message size of 65535 bytes, each VM was configured with 4
vCPUs).
2 Bidirectional 4 6.64 Gbps 19.3 Gbps
Table 87: Linux Guest Bandwidth
Number of
10G ports
Traffic
Number
of VMs Baseline (no
SR-IOV) Accelerated
(SR-IOV plug-in)
1 Unidirectional 1 2.23 Gbps 9.25 Gbps
1 Bidirectional 1 1.91Gbps 15.3 Gbps
2 Bidirectional 1 3.65 Gbps 30.7 Gbps
1 Unidirectional 4 4.80 Gbps 9.31 Gbps
1 Bidirectional 4 5.80 Gbps 14.9 Gbps
2 Bidirectional 4 6.24 Gbps 32.8 Gbps
Table 86: Windows Guest Bandwidth
Number of
10G ports
Traffic
Number
of VMs Baseline (no
SR-IOV) Accelerated
(SR-IOV plug-in)