Product Overview

HotLava Systems is a provider of innovative board-level solutions for servers and appliances that operate in network-intensive, high capacity or virtualized environments. By incorporating high density board design and packaging, we offer a suite of Ethernet adapters that meet or exceed the bandwidth, space, and power consumption requirements of the most demanding networks.

Today’s servers and workstations are capable of unprecedented performance which frequently causes a bottleneck in network interfaces. HotLava's network adapters alleviate this congestion and enable maximum server productivity.

Features and Benefits

• Six independent ports provide multifold improvements in connectivity and up to 120 Gbps of bidirectional bandwidth
• Maximum port density optimizes space and slot utilization for 1U and 2U servers
• Latest generation Intel controllers and drivers significantly reduce power consumption and ensure non-disruptive installation
• PCI Express Gen 2 (5GT/s) interface delivers high bandwidth for network intensive applications
• SFP and SFP+ ports support long distance optical fiber or low cost twin axial copper media
• Virtual Machine Device Queue (VMDq) offloads the data-sorting function from the Hypervisor and places it on the Ethernet controller to improve throughput and lower CPU utilization
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) allows each physical port to be divided into multiple virtual ports which can be assigned to individual virtual machines, bypassing the Hypervisor and resulting in near-native performance
• Receive-Side Scaling and Scalable I/O balance the network load across multiple cores/CPUs
• DMA Engine lowers CPU usage and accelerates data across the network, chipset and processor
• Direct Cache Access (DCA) pre-fetches data from memory, avoiding cache misses and improving response time
• MSI-X support minimizes the overhead of interrupts and balances the load of interrupt handling between multiple cores/CPUs
• Multiple Queues handles the packet without waiting or incurring buffer overflow to provide efficient packet prioritization
• Checksum and segmentation offloading increases throughput and lowers processor usage
• iSCSI Boot enables system boot up via iSCSI and allows for centralized storage area network management
• Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) supports Data Center Bridging or Converged Enhanced Ethernet to enable traffic classes and priorities over a lossless 10 GbE network, thereby eliminating redundant fabrics and the high cost of FC HBAs and FC switches
• Intel PROSet Utility for Windows Device Manager provides GUI management of individual ports, advanced features, connection teaming, and VLAN configuration

Highlights

• Ultra high bandwidth, eliminating network I/O bottlenecks
• Highest port density in a single adapter
• Optimized for server virtualization
• Engineered using world class Intel silicon and drivers
• Native driver support for virtually all operating systems
• Plug and Play installation
• Low cost-per-port

Applications

HotLava network adapters can be deployed in various applications, including:

• Unified Threat Management appliances
• Server virtualization
• I/O Virtualization
• High availability, failover, backup and redundancy
• High traffic generation for server, switch and router performance testing
• QoS load Balancing
• Link Aggregation
• iSCSI initiator
• FCoE initiator
• Ethernet switch and server consolidation

Meet Us At

Interop New York 2010:
Oct. 20-21, 2010
New York, NY

Super Computing 2010:
Nov. 16-18, 2010
New Orleans, LA