Secure Your Virtual Environment with VMware's AES-NI Passthrough Technology

... passthrough; Intel AES-NI support; 4 CPU cores running at 2.4GHz. KVM SR-IOV ... Launching VMware ESXi 6.0 and 6.5; Enabling SR-IOV or PCI Passthrough on ESXi ... The CPU supports the AES-NI extension. I want to install a Fileserver VM with a dedicated Controller Card (PCIe Passthrough, VT-d is available). But, there are certain corner cases, like encryption, that are crippled when instructions sets like AES-NI ... VMware vSphere Foundation ... If your CPU supports the Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruction (AES-NI) ... pass-through devices for the virtual function. For each interface and ... I am running Proxmox on a fanless PC which runs a J3160 which includes AES-NI acceleration. A container on this machine happens to be running OpenVPN. With the addition of Advanced Encryption. Standard New Instructions (AES-NI), computational overhead can be significantly reduced while accelerating performance ... When an ESXi host with a Westmere (32nm) CPU joins the cluster, the additional CPU instruction sets like AES/AESNI and PCLMULQDQ will be ... AES-NI - Enabled; NUMA Node Interleaving - Turned off; Use ESXi host version: ESXi-6.7.0-14320388-standard or above; Upgrade VM compatibility ... ... passthrough, granting a VM direct access to the NIC hardware. In ... The 'aes' feature being referred to is Intel's AES-NI acceleration for cryptography. Anyway, I pretty much left the KVM bandwagon and only run Xen, and a bit of vmware, and they all just take the host CPU and all it's ...