[Kevin OBrien]

Mellanox has announced the availability of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) drivers for its end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40GbE solutions over VMware ESXi 5.1, delivering a sustainable bandwidth rate of up to 48Gb/s of bandwidth to storage per VM and less than 2us for VM-to-VM interconnect latency. Mellanox has also shown new tests that indicate a sustained throughput of more than 37Gb/s using servers equipped with Mellanox’s ConnectX-3 40GbE NICs connected by SwitchX 40GbE switches and Mellanox QSFP cables. Mellanox’s 40GbE solutions are designed to maximize the number of Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be sustained on each server.

Mellanox Announces InfiniBand, Ethernet, and Virtual SAN Solutions for VMware