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What is the purpose of SR-IOV in a virtualized server environment regarding the physical network interface controller?



The purpose of SR-IOV, which stands for Single Root I/O Virtualization, is to allow a single physical network interface controller, or NIC, to appear as multiple separate physical devices to a virtualized server environment. In a standard virtualized setup, the hypervisor, which is the software that creates and runs virtual machines, acts as a middleman that intercepts all network traffic, which creates a perfo....

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