Nimble Storage Embeds Emulex 16Gb FC Solutions on Flash Arrays

Emulex Corporation announced that Nimble Storage, Inc. has selected its LightPulse Gen 5 (16Gb FC) FC HBA technology for the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform.

The combination of the Nimble Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture with the Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs provide high throughput and low latency to meet the performance requirements of service provider and enterprise customers leveraging VDI, dense server virtualization environments, scale-up enterprise and in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA. The Nimble Storage CS-Series FC storage arrays utilize Emulex OneCore Storage Software Development Kit (SDK), a solution for independent hardware and software vendors (IHVs and ISVs) and system integrators to create target-side drivers in a custom efficiency environment.

“We’ve invested in our product development to address the requirements of enterprise IT organizations. By partnering with Emulex around our FC Adaptive Flash arrays, we’ve been able to deliver a high-performance solution optimized for the most demanding production workloads,” said Radhika Krishnan, VP of product marketing and alliances, Nimble Storage. “Enterprise customers can now benefit from the added performance of Emulex Gen 5 FC when consolidating their workloads onto Nimble CS-Series arrays.“

The Emulex Gen 5 FC technology was a choice for Nimble Storage as they looked to add FC capabilities to the Adaptive Flash platform. The performance and low latency capability of Gen 5 FC host-based adapters, with up to 1.2 million IO/s on a single port, complement the performance characteristics of the CS-Series, which can deliver up to 5X greater performance and capacity density compared to legacy storage platforms.

Gen 5 FC technology is also capable of processing up to 21% greater OLTP transactions when compared to competing Gen 5 FC HBAs, matching the performance needed for customers’ mission-critical workloads running in flash arrays and server-based cache environments.

“Nimble Storage chose the Emulex Gen 5 FC technology for 16GFC connectivity and leveraged our OneCore Storage SDK’s ease of programmability to streamline integration into their CS-Series Adaptive Flash storage arrays,” said Shaun Walsh, SVP marketing, Emulex. “Our teams worked closely together to ensure a smooth bring up for Nimble’s customers, and we are now setting our sights on driving growth in next generation storage solutions for enterprise, telco, and cloud workloads.“