Emulex LightPulse Gen 5 FC HBA Optimized for Xeon Processor E5-2600 v2

Emulex Corporation announced that its LightPulse Gen 5 FC technology, including the LPe16000 family of Gen 5 (8 and 16Gb FC HBAs) and LPe16202 dual-port converged fabric adapters (CFAs), which offer support for Gen 5 FC or 10GbE-based FCoE, is optimised for the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family-based server platforms.

Emulex I/O connectivity solutions offer PCIe 3.0 support, performance, and improved efficiency, addressing the needs of mission-critical databases, scalable private clouds and highly virtualised environments.

"The new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family, with PCIe 3.0 support, provides the bandwidth to unlock the potential of our family of Gen 5 FC adapters today with growth to 40GbE in the future," said Shaun Walsh, SVP marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "This provides the power, reliability and efficiency improvements, in addition to more than 1.2 million IO/s on a single port (Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb FC HBA Evaluation, October 2012) which are critical to feeding performance-hungry enterprise data centres, scaling cloud environments, and enabling application acceleration."

Emulex connects and manages I/O
in Intel server environments in the following ways:

• Converged Networking for the Enterprise Cloud: Multi-fabric Ethernet solutions support 10GbE networking uses for virtualisation in the enterprise cloud and support VNF (Virtual Network Functions) using industry standard Network Virtualisation using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) technologies. In addition, Emulex CFAs support software-defined networking (SDN), providing security for multi-tenant applications and hybrid clouds. These capabilities provide IT managers with better scalability and flexibility, reducing OPEX and improving SLAs. Network convergence brings IP, SDN, storage and low-latency RDMA clustering solutions onto a single, shared physical layer with virtualised services that enable optimised application delivery in Xeon E5-2600 v2 processor-based environments.
• Superior Gen 5 FC Connectivity for Virtualisation and, Flash Environments: Gen 5 FC technology delivers up to 1.2 million IO/s on a single port, enabling its LightPulse HBAs to meet the needs of today’s performance applications, SSD and virtualised and cloud computing environments. Competing HBAs are limited to half the IO/s on a single port, preventing resource scaling between ports and potentially putting SLAs at risk.
• Increased I/O Bandwidth with PCIe 3.0 Support: Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs and CFAs support PCIe 3.0, which provides a faster I/O bus, more PCIe lanes and increased I/O bandwidth, enabling Gen 5 FC technology to match the performance capabilities of server platforms based on the Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family.
• Increased CPU Cores: Using Emulex I/O solutions, customers can expand the total I/O scale of their Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 based systems, increasing the number of VMs supported per server and fostering greater data centre consolidation.

"Organisations building solutions based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family require increased I/O performance to balance the increased processing power, Intel Integrated I/O, and PCIe 3.0 of the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family. The I/O ecosystem requires a wide range of I/O technologies, including high-performance I/O connectivity," said Jim Pappas, director of technology initiatives, Intel Corporation. "Emulex is a key contributor to this ecosystem and offers products that can enhance the performance envelope required for I/O intensive virtual servers, cloud computing and the expanding storage universe."