Chelsio Communications, a provider of 10-gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapters and ASIC solutions, announced today that its single- and dual-port 10GbE adapters are now certified for the VMware ESX hypervisor and have been added to the VMware ESX 3.5 hardware compatibility list.

Chelsio offers VMware customers low-latency adapters for high-performance computing in virtualized environments. Chelsio's adapters are powered by T3 ASIC technology, designed for virtualization at the silicon level and enabling line-rate performance for transmit and receive. Chelsio's customers are able to use the same drivers for any host bus, any physical media, any offload protocol and any number of ports and speeds of Ethernet.

In addition to VMWare virtualization support, Chelsio's T3 technology provides support for RDMA, iSCSI, TOE, Traffic Management and packet classification, which Chelsio says will enable their customers to future-proof their systems