EMULEX OCE14102-NT

An adapter within the fourth generation of the Emulex OneConnect® product line, the OCe14000 dual-port 10GBASE-T Ethernet network adapter provides high performance 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) connectivity delivering multiple benefits for the enterprise cloud, including:

• Support for lowest cost 10GbE infrastructure using CAT 6/6A/7/7A twisted pair cabling
• 10GbE cabling support up to 100m for data center deployments using structured cabling
• Increasing data center IT agility and scalability through deployment of a secure multi-tenant cloud
• Optimizing server hardware utilization by scaling high density virtualization
• Delivering user-controlled bandwidth partitioning across workloads and management services

The OCe14000 10GBASE-T Ethernet network adapter is designed for the high bandwidth and scalability demands of enterprise applications, more scalable virtualization with support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), enhanced Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and NIC port partitioning, and next-generation overlay network technologies that address the requirements for virtual machine (VM) mobility and massive scaling of Layer 2 subnets inside private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Emulex Virtual Network Exceleration (VNeX™) Virtual Network Fabric Offloads for Multi-Tenant Cloud Networking

Scaling existing technologies for private or public multi-tenant infrastructures requires networking solutions that can enable VM-to-VM communication and virtual workload migration across Layer2 and Layer 3 boundaries without impacting connectivity or performance.

At the same time, these solutions need to ensure isolation and security for thousands or millions of tenant networks. However, with existing technology, the available 4094 VLAN IDs are insufficient to isolate/secure each tenant in a data center (private cloud) or hybrid cloud environment.

VMware's Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) and Microsoft's Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) are next-generation VNF overlay networking solutions that address these requirements. VNF solutions are a MAC-in-IP data packet encapsulation scheme enabling the creation of virtualized Layer 2 subnets that can span physical L3 IP networks. Traffic from each VM is mapped to a specific virtual network; the packets are then routed transparently over the existing physical infrastructure.

Emulex VNeX offload technology powered by a multi-core adapter ASIC engine accelerates the performance of network virtualization by offloading the header encapsulation process, while simultaneously preserving legacy stateless TCP offloads, providing full native network performance in a virtual network environment.

RDMA Support

The OCe14000 10GBASE-T adapter leverages RoCE enabling server to server data movement directly between application memory without any CPU involvement providing high throughput and data acceleration on a standard Ethernet fabric without the need for any specialized infrastructure or management.