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The iWARP NIC That Does RDMA Without Touching Your Switch Configuration

RoCE v2 requires a DCB-capable switch with PFC and ETS enabled — and the network engineering team to configure it correctly, test it, and maintain it across firmware upgrades. iWARP requires none of that. The Chelsio T6225-LL-CR is a dual-port 25GbE adapter that delivers full RDMA over standard TCP/IP Ethernet — same switches, same cables, same VLANs, same everything. Plug it in, assign an IP address, enable iWARP in the driver, and the adapter delivers RDMA throughput at line rate. No switch-side PFC buffer tuning. No dropped RoCE packets because a PFC pause frame was lost. No late-night network engineering escalations because a RoCE fabric is dropping packets under load.

기술 사양

매개변수	사양
칩셋	Chelsio Terminator 6 (T6) ASIC
포트	2x SFP28 (25나르다), also supports 10GbE and 1GbE
호스트 인터페이스	PCIe 3.0 x8 (64 Gbps — sufficient for 2x 25GbE bidirectional)
RDMA	Iwarp (RFC 5040/5041) — full RDMA over TCP/IP. No DCB/PFC required.
오프로드	Full TCP/IP offload (TOE), iSCSI 오프로드, FCoE 오프로드, NVMe-oF 오프로드, iWARP RDMA
SR-IOV	까지 128 포트당 가상 기능
TLS/SSL Offload	Hardware TLS 1.3 offload at line rate (25 Gbps per port, both ports simultaneously)
IPsec Offload	Full IPsec offload (crypto + encapsulation) 회선 속도로
Stateless Offloads	VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, checksum, TSO, LRO, RSS
힘	~10W typical (두 포트 모두 활성화됨, 25나르다)
폼 팩터	로우 프로파일 PCIe, 전체 높이 브래킷 포함
물리적	167 엑스 69 mm (표준 LP PCIe 카드)
OS 지원	VM웨어 ESXi 7.0+, 8.0+ (iWARP enabled), Windows 서버 2019/2022/2025, RHEL 8.6+/9.x, SLES 15 SP4+, 우분투 20.04/22.04/24.04
호환 서버	All Dell, xFusion, PCIe를 탑재한 Lenovo 서버 3.0 x8+ 슬롯
보증	3-년도 (서버와 함께)

iWARP vs RoCE v2 — When Simplicity Wins

요인	Iwarp (Chelsio T6)	RoCE v2 (Intel E810, 브로드컴, Mellanox)
Transport	TCP/IP — routable, works across subnets, any Ethernet switch	UDP/IP — requires DCB/PFC on switch. Lossless fabric required.
Switch configuration	없음. Standard TCP/IP. Works on any managed or unmanaged switch.	일병, ETS, DCBX must be configured on every switch port. Buffer tuning required.
Deployment complexity	낮은. Install driver, enable iWARP, assign IP. Done.	Medium-high. Switch-side config required. Network team involvement mandatory.
Cross-subnet RDMA	Yes — TCP/IP is routable. RDMA works across subnets and routers.	Limited. RoCE is L2. RoCEv2 is L3 but requires PFC hop-by-hop, which does not traverse routers.
TLS offload	Yes — line-rate hardware TLS 1.3 on all Chelsio T6 adapters	Not available on most RoCE adapters
다음에 가장 적합	Cross-subnet RDMA, mixed-traffic environments, orgs without dedicated network engineering for storage	Dedicated storage fabrics, single-subnet, lowest-latency RDMA

When to Choose iWARP Over RoCE

Your network team is not dedicated to storage. If the network team manages switches for the entire data center — not just storage — they will resist configuring PFC on every switch port for RoCE. iWARP avoids that fight entirely.
Your RDMA traffic crosses subnets. iWARP over TCP/IP traverses routers. RoCE over UDP/IP does not. If your storage targets are in a different subnet from your compute nodes, iWARP is the only viable RDMA option.
You need TLS encryption at line rate. Chelsio T6 adapters include hardware TLS 1.3 offload engines that encrypt 25 Gbps per port without consuming host CPU cycles. No other 25GbE adapter on the market offers this at Chelsio’s price point.

호환 플랫폼

PCIe 3.0 x8 slot. Compatible with all Dell PowerEdge, xFusion FusionServer, and Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. Chelsio Unified Wire driver supports all listed operating systems with a single driver package.