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Bare-Metal Deployment Flavor 2: Offloading Type-1 Hypervisors (KVM & ESXi)

πŸ’° Reclaiming Lost Power: Offloading Hypervisor SRv6 Encapsulation to Smart Silicon

Running virtual switches inside KVM or ESXi to process advanced network overlays steals up to 30% of server compute power via an "infrastructure tax."
πŸš€ The Core Alternative: Offload the virtual switch and all SRv6 segment routing capabilities directly into the DPU hardware pipeline.
Why this represents a structural transformation for hypervisor scaling:
βœ… Core Reclamation: Frees up thousands of x86 CPU cores across the data center by handling network routing inside the DPU.
βœ… Line-Rate Overlays: Processes complex SRv6 service chaining instructions at physical wire speed rather than relying on software virtual switches.
βœ… Streamlined Management: Simplifies hypervisor design by letting the physical DPU handle all networking, storage mapping, and path engineering.
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