Emulex Supports Cisco Multilayer Director

Emulex
Corporation, has certified
the Cisco
MDS 9710 Multilayer Director
for use with the Emulex
LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters.

The HBAs,
when combined with Cisco storage solutions, provide customers with a
SAN solution that includes advanced management, improved efficiency
and simple data protection.

The
Multilayer 9710 Director delivers 24Tbps of total switching
capacity and 1.536Tbps per slot capacity for FC, with a
fault-tolerant architectural design, flexibility and investment
protection.

"
We’re pleased to support Cisco’s
newest storage switches with Emulex’s industry-leading 16GFC HBA
technology," said Shaun Walsh, SVP of marketing and corporate development. "The
addition of these new Cisco MDS solutions helps expand the ecosystem
of 16GFC-capable solutions available today."

The
LPe16000 16GFC HBA is tailored for virtualized, cloud
and deployments utilizing MDS storage directors. It features the driver-stack, backward
compatibility to 4GFC and 8GFC HBAs and reliability with a heritage
that spans back to the first generation of FC to 16GFC HBAs.

"As
customers work to optimize their data center infrastructure to meet
the increased demand for I/O caused by trends such as the Internet of
Things, Cisco is pleased to work with Emulex to offer solutions with
high performance, data integrity and increased throughput,"
said Rajeev Bhardwaj, VP, product management, Cisco Data Center
Group. "Together, Cisco’s
MDS storage switches and Emulex’s 16GFC HBAs offer customers a SAN
solution with superior reliability and optimal flexibility."

The
company’s 16GFC technology is for Cisco customers that are
building data centers designed for speed and agility. 

The
adapters meet the following needs:

• Performance: It offers more than five times the IOPS and
  twice the data throughput of 8GFC adapters. This is important
  for the rise in SSDs, high transaction database and highly
  virtualized environments.

• VM Densities: The adapters leverage the vScale for
  scalability, supporting  up to 255 virtual functions, 1,024
  Message Signal Interrupts Extended, and 8192 concurrent logins and
  open exchanges, up to four times the number supported by competing
  16GFC HBAs2, enabling support for more VMs per server.

• Data
  Protection With High Performance Offload: It support the T10
  Protection Information standard, providing data protection against
  silent data corruption. The LPe16000B HBAs also include high
  performance, hardware offload of data integrity checks, eliminating
  the 30% performance penalty of software-enabled T10 PI3.