{"id":11015,"date":"2018-03-15T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=11015"},"modified":"2018-03-15T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:25:36","slug":"accelerated-networking-for-both-windows-and-linux-is-now-generally-available-in-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/accelerated-networking-for-both-windows-and-linux-is-now-generally-available-in-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated Networking for both Windows and Linux is now generally available in Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) for both Windows and Linux is now generally available in Azure Government.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerated networking provides consistent ultra-low network latency via Azure&#8217;s in-house programmable hardware and technologies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-hardware\/drivers\/network\/overview-of-single-root-i-o-virtualization--sr-iov-\">SR-IOV<\/a>. By moving much of Azure&#8217;s software-defined networking stack off the CPUs and into FPGA-based SmartNICs, compute cycles are reclaimed by end user applications, putting less load on the virtual machine (VM), decreasing jitter and inconsistency in latency.<\/p>\n<p>Information needed to deploy a VM with accelerated networking can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-network\/create-vm-accelerated-networking-powershell\">Windows AN VM<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-network\/create-vm-accelerated-networking-cli\">Linux AN VM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Azure commercial announcement can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/maximize-your-vm-s-performance-with-accelerated-networking-now-generally-available-for-both-windows-and-linux\/\">Maximize your VM\u2019s Performance with Accelerated Networking \u2013 now generally available for both Windows and Linux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) for both Windows and Linux is now generally available in Azure Government. Accelerated networking provides consistent ultra-low network latency via Azure&#8217;s in-house programmable hardware and technologies such as SR-IOV. By moving much of Azure&#8217;s software-defined networking stack off the CPUs and into FPGA-based SmartNICs, compute cycles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1793,"featured_media":20423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,51,75,91,95,315,316,343,426,580],"class_list":["post-11015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-accelerated-networking","tag-announcement","tag-azure","tag-azure-gov","tag-azure-government","tag-government","tag-government-cloud","tag-iaas","tag-networking","tag-virtual-machines"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) for both Windows and Linux is now generally available in Azure Government. Accelerated networking provides consistent ultra-low network latency via Azure&#8217;s in-house programmable hardware and technologies such as SR-IOV. By moving much of Azure&#8217;s software-defined networking stack off the CPUs and into FPGA-based SmartNICs, compute cycles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}