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Demartek Labs Evaluates Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs

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Welcome!

Demartek Lab Evaluation - Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA

Dennis Martindennis@demartek.com

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Agenda

Demartek Background

Fibre Channel Marketplace

The need for 16Gb Fibre Channel

Performance of the Emulex LPe16000B FC HBA

Q & A

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Demartek

Industry analysis with on-site test labLab includes servers, networking and storage infrastructure– Fibre Channel – 4, 8 & 16GFC– Ethernet – 1 & 10 GbE

• NFS, SMB (CIFS), iSCSI & FCoE– Servers – 8+ cores, large RAM– Virtualization – VMware, Hyper-V, Xen

We run real-world applications to test server and storage solutions– Currently testing with SSD, 10GbE, 16GFC and more

More information:– www.demartek.com/Newsletter – www.youtube.com/Demartek

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Fibre Channel (FC) Marketplace

Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) – 2012: Year of “10-10-10”– 10 Million Fibre Channel ports shipped (switch ports plus adapter ports)– $10 Billion invested in Fibre Channel technology– 10 Exabytes (EB) of storage shipped

Estimates are $100 Billion has been invested in Fibre Channel technology over the last two decades

Fibre Channel has been doubling its speeds every three or four years since 1997, starting at 1GFC and progressing through 16GFC today

– The FC SAN interface is alive and well, with plans for 32GFC and faster speeds– The disk drive vendors are moving away from FC as an enterprise drive interface

Fibre Channel maintains backward compatibility with at least two previous generations

– 16GFC is backward compatible with 2GFC, 4GFC and 8GFC

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The Need for 16Gb Fibre Channel

Increasing demands on storage systems and interfaces– More data: terabytes (TB) and petabytes (PB)– More virtual machines per physical server

• 8-10 used to be common, now 16, 20 or 25 are not uncommon

VMware vSphere 5.1– Support for 16GFC (in-box Emulex drivers), 64 vCPU, 1TB RAM in a VM

Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V– Support for 16GFC (in-box Emulex drivers), 64 vCPU, 1TB RAM in a VM, Virtual

Fibre Channel

SSD Technology drives higher I/O workloads

New Servers– PCIe 3.0 servers introduced in 2012 provide faster bus speeds and more lanes

of PCIe

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16Gb Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel Speed Characteristics

Fibre Channel

Throughput(MBps) Encoding Line Rate

(Gbaud)Host Adapter Requirements

1GFC 100 8b/10b 1.0625 PCI-X2GFC 200 8b/10b 2.125 PCI-X

4GFC 400 8b/10b 4.25 PCI-X 2.0 orPCIe 1.0 (x4)

8GFC 800 8b/10b 8.5 PCIe 1.0 (x8) orPCIe 2.0 (x4)

16GFC 1600 64b/66b 14.025 PCIe 2.0 (x8) orPCIe 3.0 (x4)

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Fibre Channel Cabling Recommendations

Multi-mode for moderate distances within datacenters– OM4 is recommended to support current and future requirements

OM1 OM2 OM3 OM4Jacket color Orange Orange Aqua Aqua

1 Gb/s 300m 500m 860m –2 Gb/s 150m 300m 500m –4 Gb/s 70m 150m 380m 400m8 Gb/s 21m 50m 150m 190m

10 Gb/s 33m 82m Up to 300m Up to 400m16 Gb/s 15m 35m 100m 125m

* OM1 cable is not recommended for 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel

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Emulex LPe16000B 16GFC HBA

Emulex LPe16000B Series– Second generation Emulex 16GFC HBA– 1.2 million IOPS per port– 3200 MBPS bi-directional per port of

bandwidth– Support for PCIe 3.0– Backward compatible with 4GFC and 8GFC– BlockGuard data integrity with support for T10 Protection Information (T10-PI)

offload enabling end-to-end data integrity with no performance penalty– vScale performance and scalability with a multi-core ASIC supporting 255

Virtual Functions, 1024 MSi-X and 8192 logins/open exchanges– N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support standard

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Test Environment

Host server is PCIe 3.0 with dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors

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Performance - IOPS

512B 1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB0

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

1,400,000

IOmeter IOPS - LPe16000B

Write Read-Write Read

IOPS

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Performance - MBPS

512B 1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

IOmeter MBPS - LPe16000B

Write Read-Write Read

MB

PS

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Performance – CPU Utilization

512B 1KB 2KB 4KB 8KB 16KB 32KB 64KB 128KB 256KB 512KB 1MB0

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IOmeter CPU Utilization - LPe16000B

Write Read-Write Read

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Utiliz

ation

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Learning More …

Demartek Evaluation of Emulex LPe16000B full report– http://www.demartek.com/Demartek_Emulex_LPe16000B_Evaluation_2012-10.html

Demartek Storage Interface Comparison Reference Page– http://www.demartek.com/Demartek_Interface_Comparison.html

FCIA Fibre Channel Solution Guide 2012– http://fibrechannel.org/library/2012/10/fibre-channel-solution-guide---2012.html

Call Emulex: – North America: 877-359-3263– United Kingdom: 44 (0) 118 977 2929– Germany: 49 (0) 89 97007 177– France: 33 (0) 158 580 022

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Questions …

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Thank you !