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ConnectX-2 EN 40GbE Adapters Accelerate VM Migration by up to 200%, Boosting Productivity and Profitability

Mellanox Technologies has announced that it will demonstrate record performance benchmarks of VM migration with vSphere vMotion on top of Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN 40 Gigabit Ethernet adapters during VMworld 2010. The benchmark results using 40GbE show more than 200 percent improvement in migration time over 10GbE and a 10x performance improvement over 1GbE. The demonstration showcases Mellanox’s Ethernet performance leadership in providing connectivity solutions to private and public cloud infrastructure.

“Large virtualized environments like those found in cloud computing are increasing the performance requirements on the I/O for applications such as VM migration,” said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “With a high-performance, efficient interconnect, data center managers can migrate VMs to available servers faster, allowing them to meet stringent Service Level Agreements, and also reduce infrastructure costs and power.”

Mellanox is the first company to demonstrate VM migration at 40Gb/s. ConnectX-2 EN 40GigE adapters are backwards compatible with 10GigE fabrics and are interoperable with available 10GigE and upcoming 40GigE switches from major switch OEMs.

Live Demonstration at VMworld San Francisco (August 30th - September 2nd)
Visit Mellanox Technologies at booth #1412 to see a live demonstration of the VM migration using VMware vSphere vMotion over Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN 40G network adapter, and the full suite of Mellanox’s end-to-end high-performance data center connectivity products.