Express DX 1700 Series Data Reduction and

Acceleration Card
Express DX 1700 Series
Data Reduction and Security Solutions
for the Unified Storage and Network Infrastructure
T
he massive amount of digital content and its global distribution is not only straining the compute,
storage and networking infrastructure of large Enterprises and SMBs but also plaguing the costsensitive consumer and SOHO market segments.
Fortune 500 companies and SMBs are struggling to manage the exponential growth in data, its
mobility and supporting a dynamic virtualized IT infrastructure required to address an increasingly
demanding business environment. However, the vast majority of IT budgets are spent maintaining
the existing storage and network infrastructure. Power, cooling, real estate, and the ever-increasing
demand for compute, storage, network and application resources all continue to push costs higher.
Furthermore the growth in global online transactions and content distribution across heterogeneous
networks as well as storing information on mobile or removable media is raising security concerns.
Customers across the board want to ensure that their data is secure whether it is in transit across the
network or at rest on their storage devices.
DX 1700 Series Solutions
The DX 1700 series cards offload the computationally intensive tasks necessary to compress,
deduplicate, and secure data in both block form for storage applications and packet form for
networking applications. These products are aimed at enabling a more unified and efficient
compute, storage and network infrastructure for SOHO, SMB and enterprise class customers.
These cards offer power efficient hardware acceleration capabilities for data compression,
deduplication, and network and storage security.
Hardware Offload
Hardware offload frees up valuable and expensive CPU resources to be utilized for improving
application performance and enabling virtualized environments. Offloaded algorithms include:
• Data Reduction: eLZS, LZS and GZIP
• Security / Encryption: AES-CBC, -CTR, -GCM, -ECB; 3DES
• Security / Authentication: AES-GCM, -GMAC, -XCBC-MAC; HMAC-SHA-1, -256; HMAC-MD5;
SSL3.0-MAC
• Hash for Deduplication: SHA-1, -256; MD5
• Public Key: RSA, DH, DSA, ECDH and ECDSA
• OpenSSL and OpenSwan (using NETKEY) support
• Suite B Support
Performance and Scalability
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STORAGE SYSTEM APPLICATIONS
• Consumer/SOHO Network-Attached
Storage (NAS)
• Enterprise Network-Attached Storage
(NAS)
• Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Disk backup and archival servers,
offering:
– Remote Replication
– Data deduplication
– Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
– Snapshot and Replication
– Disk-to-Disk (D2D)
– Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
– Content-Addressable Storage (CAS)
• Tape backup servers
Network APPLICATIONS
• Unified Threat Management
Appliances
• Enterprise Secure Router /
VPN Gateway/Wireless Backhaul
• Enterprise VPN Firewall
• Data Center Load Balancers
• Multi Service Switches
• Layer 4-7 Switches
• Wireless Base Stations
• Radio Network Controllers
• Carrier Network Security
• WAN Optimization Appliances
Throughput of up to 800 MB/sec (6.4 Gb/sec)
Up to 14,200 Operations / sec for RSA 1K keys
Multiple cards can be integrated into a system to attain aggregate performance
Load balancing across multiple cards
High Availability
• End-to-end data protection assures data integrity by detecting, isolating and preventing the
propagation of corrupt data caused by silent disk errors, application interaction and memory errors
• New software architecture provides failover protection in case of a card failure
Security
The cards offer a broad set of encryption algorithms enabling customers to select the desired
security level for information sent over the LAN/WAN or at rest in a storage array. The flexibility
to select the appropriate security level also simplifies implementation of policy based access and
strengthens overall network security.
Power Efficiency
The DX 1700 series cards were designed to minimize power consumption and cooling costs. Typical
power consumption ranges from 1.9 W to 3.3 W depending on performance grade.
DX 1700 Series
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Express DX 1700 Series
Data Reduction and Security Solutions
for the Unified Storage and Network Infrastructure
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Key Features
CArd Specifications
Data Reduction Algorithms
• eLZS, LZS, GZIP (Deflate RFC 1951)
Bus Interface
• PCIe x1, x4
• PCIe Spec. Rev. 2.0 compliant, Gen 1 speed (2.5 Gbps)
Encryption / Decryption
• AES (128, 192, 256) CBC, GCM, CTR, ECB, XTS-256,
XTS-512
• 3DES, DES, ARC4
Card Dimensions
• Length: 9.08 cm (3.58 in)
• Height: 6.89 cm (2.71 inches)
Authentication
• AES-GMAC, -XCBC-MAC
• HMAC-SHA-1, -256; HMAC-MD5
• SSL3.0-MAC
Bracket Dimensions
Low profile: 1.84 x 7.92 cm (0.73 x 3.12 in)
Optional full height: 1.84 x 12.00 cm (0.73 x 4.73 in)
Hashing for Deduplication
• SHA-1, SHA-256
• MD5
Temperature and Humidity
Public Key
• RSA and DH up to 8k-bits, DSA
• ECDH and ECDSA (256-bit, 384-bit, 521-bit)
Operating: 0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F; 10% to 90% RH
non-condensing
Storage: -10°C/14°F to 70°C/158°F; 5% to 95% RH
non-condensing
Random Numbers
• Hardware random number generator
• ANSI X9.31 PRNG
Required Airflow
None (@ 55°C operating, sea level)
Material Safety
RoHS-6
Suite B Support
Environmental Specifications
Broadest set of cryptographic algorithms for government
applications
• Top Secret: AES-GCM-256/AES-GMAC-256, SHA-384/
HMAC-SHA-384, ECDSA-384, ECDH-384
• Secret (and below): AES-GCM-128/AES-GMAC-128,
SHA-256/HMAC-SHA-256, ECDSA-256, ECDH-256
Agency Approvals
Safety
USA: UL60950-1, 2nd Edition
European Community: EN 60950-1, Low voltage directive
2006/95/EC and EMC directive 2004/108/EC
Canada: cUL CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1-03
• OpenSSL
• OpenSwan
EMI and EMC
Security
Performance / Throughput
See table below
Performance Features
• Compression, hash and encryption in a single pass
• Automatic load balancing
• Hardware-assisted command chaining and scatter
gather (unlimited buffers)
USA: FCC Part 15, Class B
Canada: ICES-003[B], NMB-003[B]
European Community: EN55022:2006, EN55024:1998
Japan: VCCI V-3/2008.04, Class B
Taiwan: BSMI CNS13438:95(2006) Class B
New Zealand/Australia: AS/NZS CISPR22
Korea: KCC KN22/KN24
Open Source Network
SDK and OS Support
Ease of Use
• New SDK simplifies integration and reduces time to market
• Intel QuickAssist API Support
Power and Space
• Fine grain power management ensures lowest real-time
power consumption per command
Efficiency
Reliability and Service
• Software failover protection (All HW functionality) in
case of card failure
• End-to-end data integrity (On chip and off chip error
detection)
• Complete verification of compressed, encrypted and
hash data in real time with no performance impact
Features
SDK Features
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Raw Acceleration API for Networking Applications
Data Offload API for Storage Applications
QuickAssist API (Intel standard)
Functional example applications show API usage
Demo application for testing performance
OS Abstraction Layer allows easy porting to custom OS
Operating Systems
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Windows Server 2003 R2 (32/64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (32/64 bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 (32/64 bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 & Update 1 (32/64 bit)
Novell SUSE ELS 9 SP 4 (32/64 bit)
Novell SUSE ELS 10 (32/64 bit)
Supported
Product Selector Guide
Product
Performance
(Refer to Note 2)
Compression
Encryption
Hash
Packet
Processing
Acceleration
Power
PCIe Card
(Half Height/
Half Length)
Model no. Mbps
MB/s
1k RSA,
Ops/s
Lzs
elzs
Gzip
Aes
Des,
3des
Arc4
SHA-1,
MD5
Sha-256
True
Rng
Ipsec, ipcomp
Ssl/tls
Typ
(W)
Max
(W)
Interface
DX 1740
6,400
800
14,200
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√ √ √ √ √ Note 1
3.3
5.5
PCIe x4
DX 1730
3,200
400
7,100
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√ √ √ √ √ Note 1
2.5
4.5
PCIe x4
DX 1720
1,600
200
3,550
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2.0
4.0
PCIe x4
DX 1710
800
100
1,775
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√ √ √ √ √ Note 1
1.9
3.8
PCIe x1
Note 1: Raw crypto/compression performed on-chip; packet header/trailer manipulation performed in software at application level
Note 2: Refer to performance application note for specific performance results for each algorithm.
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