How to Increase Performance and Virtualization Efficiency with Emulex 16Gb FC HBAs” presented by...

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Agenda

• Emulex Introduction

• ESG Research

• Emulex LPe16002 ESG Lab Review

• Summary

• Q & A

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Introduction to 16Gb Fibre Channel

Next generation SAN-based on 2009 - T11 Specification– Drivers increase VMs/server– Faster SSD storage access– Faster backup

Ecosystem now available

16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) will overtake 8GFC in 2014

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LPe16000 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAHighest Performing Fibre Channel Connectivity

1600MB per second throughput with over 1 Million IOPS

vScale™ performance and scalability—multi-core ASIC engine with eight cores supports 255 VFs, and 8192 logins/open exchanges for maximum VM density—up to 4x more than other adapters

2x management functionality, and takes half the time to manage with OneCommand Manager

Support for Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X), improves host utilization and enhances application performance

BlockGuard® data integrity—enables end-to-end protection against silent data corruption

Rock-solid reliability and thermal characteristics, essential for mission-critical, cloud and virtualized applications

Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and Virtual Fabric

Common driver model, allows a single driver to support all Emulex HBAs on a given OS

75% 16GFC Market Share*

*Crehan Research Q2 2012 Server-class Adapter & LOM Market Share Report, August 2012

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Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, ESGTony Palmer, senior engineer and analyst, ESG Lab


Most Important IT Priorities for 2012

Deploying a "private cloud" infrastructure

Mobile workforce enablement

Desktop virtualization

Data center consolidation

Business continuity/disaster recovery programs

Information security initiatives

Manage data growth

Major application deployments or upgrades

Increased use of server virtualization

Improve data backup and recovery

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

22%

22%

23%

24%

25%

27%

27%

29%

30%

30%

Which of the following would you consider to be your organization's most important IT priorities over the next 12-18 months? (Percent of respondents, N=614, ten responses accepted)

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Survey Respondents, by Total Virtual Machines

7

Less than 25 VMs

25 to 49 VMs

50 to 100 VMs

101 to 250 VMs

251 to 500 VMs

501 to 1,000 VMs

1,001 to 2,500 VMs

2,501 to 5,000 VMs

More than

5,000 VMs

Don’t know

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

14%12%

20%

16%

13% 13%

5%

2%4%

1%3%

10%11%

17%19%

15%13%

6%5%

2%

Approximately how many total virtual machines (whether production or test/devel-opment) are currently deployed in your organization? How do you expect this to

change over the next 24 months? (Percent of respondents, N=280)

Total virtual machines deployed today Total virtual machines deployed 24 months from now


Survey Respondents, by VM per Physical Server

8

Less than 5 virtual machines per phys-

ical x86 server

5 to 10 virtual ma-chines per physical

x86 server

11 to 25 virtual machines per phys-

ical x86 server

More than 25 virtual machines per physi-

cal x86 server

Don’t know0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

21%

45%

23%

8%

3%6%

24%

35%

30%

5%

What would you estimate is the average number of virtual machines per physical x86 server in your environment today? How do you expect this to change over the

next 24 months? (Percent of respondents, N=280)

Average number of VMs per physical server today Average number of VMs per physical server 24 months from now

16 Gb FC


FC still prevalent

iSCSI storage area network (SAN)

Direct-attached storage (DAS)

Network-attached storage (NAS)

Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN)

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

10%

18%

27%

45%

What would you consider to be the primary storage technology you are currently using to support your organization’s virtual server environment? (Percent of respondents, N=187)


ESG Lab Environment

Brocade 6510 16GFC Switch

HP DL380-G7 Windows Server 2008 R2

Texas Memory RamSan-320

1 x LPe160021x LPe12002

16G FC

8G FC 4G FC

Texas Memory RamSan-400

1 x LPe12002

HP DL380-G7 VMware ESXi

Guest: Windows Server 2008 R2


Easy to install


Simple to manage


Batch firmware upgrades


IOPS Performance

Exchange 2007 OLTP0

100,000

200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

600,000

LPe12002 LPe16002 (@8Gb) LPe16002

IOPS

Windows 2008 R2


Latency – Response time

Exchange 2007 OLTP0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

109.4

7.0

5.7

2.92.9

1.5

LPe12002 LPe16002 (@8Gb) LPe16002

Resp

onm

se T

ime

(ms)

Windows 2008 R2


By the numbers

Windows 2008 R2


What the numbers mean

The Emulex LPe16002 delivers

• 5X the IOPS over previous generation in 16GFC SAN

• Almost 2X IOPS over previous generation in 8GFC

SAN

• Faster response times (OLTP)

Half the I/O response for 8GFC

¼ the I/O response for 16GFC


Why This Matters

• Fibre Channel is still widely used Investment protection

• Virtualized environments need performance VM densities and faster processors

• Ability to handle greater multi tenant environments NPIV

• Greater visibility Integration with VMware vCenter OneCommand Vision


ESG Lab highlights

• Seamless integration with existing HBAs and tool Emulex OneCommand Manager & older gen HBAs

• Full featured VMware vCenter Plug-in Batch firmware upgrades from vCenter

• Simplified management and maintenance Leverages previous generation drivers

• Five times the performance (OLTP IOPS) and more than 50% reduction in I/O response

Summary


• Continued drive towards virtualization and private clouds

• VM densities and mixed workload strain existing capabilities

• I/O becomes more strategic• 16Gb Fibre Channel will play a major role for

organizations• Emulex LPe16002 is more than a bandwidth bump, it

is a significant leap forward in performance.


Questions?

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Thank YouFor more information, please contactBob Laliberte, Senior Analyst508.381.5169 | [email protected]

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