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Data center networking is the networking infrastructure and technologies used to interconnect servers, storage systems, and other networking devices within a data center facility.
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Data Center NetworkingBroadcom Doubles VMware CPU EfficiencyBroadcom Doubles VMware CPU Efficiency
A few weeks ago, VMware announced that vSphere 4.1 enables 10Gb iSCSI hardware offload in the Broadcom 957711 Converged NIC (C-NIC). Before VMware supported 10Gb iSCSI offload, data center managers connected their VMware servers to 10Gb iSCSI SANs using a combination of NIC hardware and fat iSCSI device drivers, a configuration where most of the iSCSI protocol processing is done by the VMware server. Now with vSphere 4.1, VMware supports the latest generation of converged C-NICs that use thin iS
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