Chelsio Unified Wire Adapter Product Selection Guide
Single Adapter with concurrent Multi-Protocol Operation
T6 ASIC based Features
Ethernet Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022
Adapters Windows Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Windows Azure Stack Private Cloud
Chelsio P/N T62100-CR T62100-LP-CR T62100-SO-CR T62100-SO-OCP3 Windows Network Direct
Ports 2x40/50/100G Windows SMB Direct, Client RDMA
Connector Type QSFP28 Windows Storage Replica (SR)
Host Interface PCIe Gen3 x16 Windows [Link]
Form Factor Half Size Low Profile OCP3-SFF Low Latency L2 NIC
Concurr. Conn. 32k - TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
Power (Typical) 22W 19W 16W 16W iWARP RDMA Offload
Airflow 200 LFM (Linear Feet Per minute) Inline TLS/SSL, DTLS, IPsec Offload1 2
Adapter Type Unified Wire Server Offload NGINX Offload1 2
Co-processor TLS/SSL, IPsec Offload1
T6/T5 ASIC NFS/iWARP & NFS/TCP Offload
based Ethernet iSCSI Offload (Initiator and Target)
Adapters iSER Offload (Initiator and Target)
FCoE HW Offload (Initiator)
Chelsio P/N T6225-OCP3 T6225-CR T6225-SO-CR T540-LP-CR
NVMe-oF/iWARP (Initiator and Target)
Ports 2x10/25G 4x1/10G
NVMe/TCP Offload (Initiator and Target)
Connector Type SFP28 SFP+
NVMe JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash)
Host Interface PCIe Gen3 x8
SPDK NVMe/TCP Offload Target
Form Factor OCP3-SFF Low Profile Wire Direct Low Latency Suite
Concurr. Conn. 32K 256 32K SR-IOV / Virtualization
Power (Typical) 12W 13W 10W 11W DPDK / PacketDirect / Netmap
Airflow 200 LFM (Linear Feet Per minute) OVS / OpenFlow Offload
Adapter Type Unified Wire CNA Unified Wire NVGRE / VxLAN/ Geneve
Media StreamEngine2
Adapter Types and Supported Functions:
Traffic Management / DCB
Server Offload L2 NIC, Filtering, PXE Boot, Crypto Offload (Co-processor)1 Packet Classification, Sniffer & Tracer
CNA Server Offload Functions, iSCSI Init HW Offload, iSER Init HW Offload, NVMe-oF/iWARP Init HW Offload, Multi / Single adapter Failover
NVMe/TCP Init HW Offload, FCoE Init, S2D iWARP HW Offload, iWARP RDMA Offload
1 Supported only on T6 family of adapters
Unified Wire (UWire) Server Offload & CNA functions, Storage Targets Offload, FCoE Init HW Offload, Media Streaming 2 Not supported by SO (Server Offload) adapters
Offload, TCP & UDP Offloads, Traffic Management, Hash Filtering, Unified Boot, Crypto Offload1 LP: Low Profile SO: Server Offload
Chelsio Communications [Link] sales@[Link] +1-408-962-3600
Chelsio ASIC, Software and Support Guide
Unified Wire & Server Offload Controller ASICs
T6 is a highly integrated, hyper-virtualized 1/10/25/40/50/100GbE controller ASIC with full offload support of a complete Unified Wire solution comprising L2 NIC, TOE, iWARP
RDMA, iSCSI, FCoE, NVGRE, VxLAN, Filtering, Traffic Analytics, Management, OVS Offload, DCB , NVMe-oF, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/TOE and TLS/SSL, DTLS, IPsec, SMB 3.X crypto
Offload.
Ordering Information:
T6ASIC2100: T6 Unified Wire Engine, 2x1/10/25/40/50/100G ports, full featured. T5ASIC40G: T5 Unified Wire Engine, 2x40G or 4x10G ports, full featured.
Chelsio Terminator Core IP
Chelsio’s Terminator Core IP is a configurable, high performance Ethernet packet processing engine with a full suite of software, suitable for a wide range of SoC network
connectivity solutions. Contact sales@[Link] for more information.
Accessories
Twinaxial Cables Optical Cables Optical Transceivers
TAPCABLE3M (3M 10G Passive) QSRCABLE10M (10M Short Reach for 40G and 100G) SM10G-SR (10G Short Reach SFP+) SM10G-SR-BT (1/10GBASE-T RJ45 SFP+)
TAPCABLE28-3M (3M 25G Passive) SM10G-LR (10G Long Reach SFP+) SM1G-SR-BT (1000BASE-T RJ45 SFP+)
SM25G-SR (25G Short Reach SFP28)
QTAPCABLE3M (3M 40G QSFP+ Passive, 30 AWG) SM25G-LR (25G Long Reach SFP28)
OCTTAPCABLE3M (3M QSFP+ to 4xSFP+ Passive) SM40G-SR (40G Short Reach QSFP+)
SM40G-LR (40G Long Reach QSFP+)
QTAPCABLE28-2M (2M 100G QSFP28 Passive) SM100G-SR (100G Short Reach QSFP28)
SM100G-LR (100G Long Reach QSFP28)
Support
The standard warranty period for Chelsio hardware products is three years from date of purchase. To contact support, call Chelsio at 408-962-3600, submit a support request
via [Link] or email support at support@[Link]. Drivers for Chelsio adapters are available at [Link]
Support Plan:
SUPPORT-GOLD: 40 hours extended technical support: 24-hr response/replacement.
SUPPORT-SILVER: 4 hours extended technical support: 24-hr response.
Supported Platforms, Operating Systems and Hypervisors
Chelsio Communications [Link] sales@[Link] +1-408-962-3600