Azure Accelerated Networking Support for Virtual Edges

Azure accelerated networking support is available for Virtual Edges in the 5.4 release. This document provides detailed instructions on how to enable, disable, and verify accelerated networking for Virtual Edges, as well as providing support and host servicing details.

Accelerated Networking is Azure's implementation of single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), a standard that allows a physical PCIE device to appear as multiple virtual devices (virtual functions). When Accelerated Networking is enabled on an interface of a VMware SD-WAN Edge on Azure, SR-IOV support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5 Network Interface Cards (NICs) is automatically enabled in the Edge Virtual Machine (VM).

Note: The SR-IOV support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5 NICs is only available for the VMware SD-WAN Edge on Azure in the 5.4 release.