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VMware Distributed Services Engine

VMware architecture that runs vSphere and NSX data-plane functions on a SmartNIC or DPU instead of the host CPU.

Known aliases

  • Distributed Services Engine

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Current clusters

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Broadcom's VP says VMware "walked back" from SmartNIC network offload

The Distributed Services Engine still ships inside Cloud Foundation, but the SmartNIC-resident distributed firewall that justified it is no longer sold, and Broadcom's lifecycle documentation ends the matching security capability by October 2027.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives52
Confidence44