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vSphere Distributed Services Engine enhances the performance of workloads with lower latency through hardware accelerated data processing, boost infrastructure security, and higher packet throughput. It achieves this by accelerating infrastructure functions such as NSX Networking and NSX Distributed Firewall on the Data Processing Units (DPUs). vSphere Distributed Services Engine's DPUs modernize on-premise to cloud infrastructure by offloading and accelerating network functions on DPUs. It enables modern distributed workloads to run with lower network latency and improved data throughput.
vSphere on DPUs, enabled by vSphere Distributed Services Engine, is a new way to architect the core infrastructure by: