Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU)

Host multiple tenants with virtualized network and storage while the IPU manages secure infrastructure isolation.

• Lower host overhead for improved TCO

• Higher link speeds up to 200Gb

• Transparent to VM or Containers - up to 1K VFs

• Secure traffic in data center

Support a single tenant on a host with IPU-based storage virtualization, disaggregation, and secure infrastructure isolation.

• Infrastructure isolation

• Cloud Service Provider can monitor and manage resources

• Accelerated remote storage access

PU provides storage virtualization and disaggregation. Hardware acceleration on NVMe transport.

• Transparent to VM or Containers

• Lower host overhead for improved TCO

• Secure Storage Traffic in data center

• Increase storage efficiency

Infrastructure tasks run separately from tenant applications, with security isolation managed by the IPU.

• Infrastructure isolation

• Cloud Service Provider can monitor and manage resources

• IPU secure boot