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1.3 Paravirtual RDMA
Paravirtual RDMA (PVRDMA) is a new PCIe virtual network interface card (NIC) which supports standard
RDMA APIs and is offered to a virtual machine on VMware vSphere 6.5.
PVRDMA architecture
In Figure 2, notice that PVRDMA is deployed on two virtual machines: RDMA_QLG_HOST1 and
RDMA_QLG_HOST2. The following table describes the components of the architecture.