Emulex LightPulse 16Gb FC HBAs Available at Fujitsu

Emulex Corporation
announced the availability of its LightPulse LPe16000B-M6-F single-port and
LPe16002B-M6-F dual-port 16Gb FC HBAs for the Fujitsu
PRIMERGY server product line.

Emulex 16GFC HBAs deliver more than 1.2 million IO/s on a single-port (1), enabling Fujitsu customers to support more
applications and VMs per server, improve power efficiency with better IO/s
performance per watt, save HBA administration and installation time with management tools, and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met
with the most reliable HBA available.

"The computing industry is
experiencing mounting demand for storage performance due to increases in data
growth, VM density and application performance requirements," said
Shaun Walsh, SVP marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "FC SANs carry the bulk of storage traffic in
the enterprise data center and are beginning to feel the stresses of these
increased demands. Combined with high performance Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers,
Emulex LightPulse 16GFC HBAs address these requirements by supporting an
industry-leading 1.2 million IO/s on a single port with extremely fast response
times, as well as delivering consolidation and power per IO/s performance
benefits."

"Today’s high performance PCIe 3.0
PRIMERGY servers are capable of generating massive amounts of I/O to keep pace
with customers’ virtualization and application demands; this has made the role
of the HBA more important than ever before," said Uwe Romppel, head of
the product development group, Fujitsu Technology Solutions. "Emulex 16GFC technology continues to be
relied upon by Fujitsu PRIMERGY customers for its industry leading performance,
reliability, backward compatibility and simplified management."

Emulex 16GFC technology is for customers
using PCIe 3.0 Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers,
and
provides the following customer benefits:

FC Performance: Latest 16GFC technology delivers up to 1.2
million IO/s on a single port (1), enabling its LightPulse HBAs to meet the
needs of today’s performance hungry applications, SSDs and backup application
demands. The architecture enables all resources to be applied to any port that
needs it, ensuring SLAs are met. Competing HBAs are limited to half the IO/s
per port (2), preventing resource scaling between ports and potentially putting
SLAs at risk. Additionally, PRIMERGY servers,
which include the latest Xeon processors and support PCIe 3.0, increase
the total I/O bandwidth available to approximately quadruple that of the
previous generation of servers (1), making them a match for the highest
performing Emulex 16GFC HBAs.
Increased VM Densities: 16GFC
HBAs leverage Emulex vScale for superior scalability, supporting up to 255 virtual functions (VFs), 1,024
Message Signal Interrupts Extended (MSI-X) and 8192 concurrent logins and open
exchanges, up to four times the number supported by competing 16GFC HBAs (3),
enabling support for more VMs per server than ever before.
GreenState Power
Efficiency: Emulex GreenState power management reduces data
center power consumption and associated operational expenditures (OPEX) by
delivering up to four times better IO/s performance per watt over previous
generations (4).
Simplified and Time-Saving I/O
Management: With a single driver model, the 16GFC HBAs can be
controlled, configured and managed from a single console using Emulex
OneCommand Manager, enabling enterprise scalability with time-saving features
that provide more than twice the management functionality and take half the
time to install and manage compared to other I/O solutions (5).
OneCommand Manager plug-in for VMware vCenter Server allows users to manage
Emulex adapters across hundreds of servers, natively from the VMware vCenter
Server console. In addition, HBA provides support the
VMware vCenter 5.1 Web Client, providing administrators with the flexibility to
manage their HBAs with both the desktop and web client with the same
functionality.
Maximum Uptime to Meet SLAs: LightPulse HBAs
deliver reliability data with more than 10 million hours MTBF,
run cooler and use passive heat sinks (2).