Intel® Baseband FEC SR-IOV Driver and Tools for Intel® eASIC™ Device ACC100 PCIe accelerator card

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

The Intel® vRAN Accelerator ACC100 Adapter (PCIe card) provides 4G and 5G Forward Error Correction (FEC) acceleration in virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN). This software enables single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for this device on VMware ESXi. SR-IOV enables the creation of Virtual Functions (VFs) from a single Physical Function (PF) to support hardware acceleration for multiple guest Virtual Machines (VMs).

Please note this is not a standard ESXi IO kernel driver. It is used with VMDirectPath IO to access the device. VMware's certification of the Intel® vRAN Baseband Driver and Tools verifies basic platform and device requirements for VMDirectPath I/O, checking that the PF driver enables VFs correctly and that the VFs are exposed to the VM's guest operating system. The VMDirectPath I/O certification for SR-IOV test suite does not certify end-to-end functionality of the device. It is Intel's responsibility to support end users with end-to-end interoperability and functionality of the overall solution.

Note:

• Latest vRAN ACC100 software is only compatible with ESXi 8.0 U1 and later versions. Do not install this driver on ESXi 8.0.
• Legacy vRAN ACC100 software needs to be used to have support on ESXi 7.0 (and all 7.x updates) and ESXi 8.0 GA.

Resolution

Intel® vRAN Baseband Driver and Tools for VMware ESXi are available on Intel® Download Center:

Customer Support

To submit an Intel® Premier Support (IPS) ticket, please go to Intel Support.