Intel and Microsoft Overhaul iSCSI for the Enterprise

Finally, the Intel 82599 10Gb Ethernet adapter offloads some or all of CRC Digest, TCP/IP and IPsec processing so the server can be free to do processing related to the business application was purchased for.  The proof-point for the new performance and scalability of iSCSI and Intel Ethernet server adapters was record shattering iSCSI performance of over 1 million inputs and outputs per second (IOPS) with native Windows Server 2008 R2. To put this level of iSCSI performance into perspective, that's double the IOP performance of the fastest 8Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapter available today.

 The results are near-native iSCSI performance of 715,000 IOPS with Microsoft Hyper-V and dramatically lower CPU utilization.

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