Join Barbara Porter from Emulex, with Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, and Tony Palmer, senior engineer/analyst, at ESG, for an in-depth analysis of 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) and an overview of the results of an ESG Lab Validation of Emulex’s high performance, low latency 16GFC adapters, built for highly virtualized environments.

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2. Agenda
• Emulex Introduction
• ESG Research
• Emulex LPe16002 ESG Lab Review
• Summary
• Q&A
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3. 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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4. LPe16000 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA
Highest 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 75% 16GFC Market
Common driver model, allows a single driver to support all Share*
Emulex HBAs on a given OS
*Crehan Research Q2 2012 Server-class Adapter & LOM Market Share Report, August 2012
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Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, ESG
Tony Palmer, senior engineer and analyst, ESG Lab
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6. Most Important IT Priorities for 2012
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)
Improve data backup and recovery 30%
Increased use of server virtualization 30%
Major application deployments or upgrades 29%
Manage data growth 27%
Information security initiatives 27%
Business continuity/disaster recovery programs 25%
Data center consolidation 24%
Desktop virtualization 23%
Mobile workforce enablement 22%
Deploying a "private cloud" infrastructure 22%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
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7. Survey Respondents, by Total Virtual Machines
Approximately how many total virtual machines (whether production or
test/development) 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
25%
20%
20% 19%
17%
16%
15%
15% 14%
13% 13% 13%
12%
11%
10%
10%
6%
5% 5%
5% 4%
3%
2% 2%
1%
0%
Less than 2525 to 49 VMsto 100 101 to 250251 to 500 VMs 1,000 VMs 2,500 VMs5,000 VMs 5,000 VMs
VMs 50 VMs VMs 501 to 1,001 to 2,501 to More than Don’t know
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8. Survey Respondents, by VM per Physical Server
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
50%
45%
16 Gb FC
45%
40%
35%
35%
30%
30%
25%
24% 23%
21%
20%
15%
10% 8%
6% 5%
5% 3%
0%
han 5 virtual machines per virtual machines per25 virtualx86 server per physical x86 server per physical x86 server
5 to 10 physical x86 server physical machines than 25 virtual machines
11 to More Don’t know
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9. FC still prevalent
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)
Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) 45%
Network-attached storage (NAS) 27%
Direct-attached storage (DAS) 18%
iSCSI storage area network (SAN) 10%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
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10. ESG Lab Environment
1 x LPe16002
1x LPe12002
Texas Memory
HP DL380-G7 RamSan-320
VMware ESXi
Guest: Windows Server 2008 R2
1 x LPe12002
Brocade 6510 16GFC Switch Texas Memory
RamSan-400
HP DL380-G7
Windows Server 2008 R2
16G FC
8G FC
4G FC
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11. Easy to install
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12. Simple to manage
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13. Batch firmware upgrades
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14. IOPS Performance
600,000
500,000
400,000
IOPS
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
Exchange 2007 OLTP
LPe12002 LPe16002 (@8Gb) LPe16002
Windows 2008 R2
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15. Latency – Response time
10
9.4
9
8
7.0
7
Responmse Time (ms)
6 5.7
5
4
2.9 2.9
3
2 1.5
1
0
Exchange 2007 OLTP
LPe12002 LPe16002 (@8Gb) LPe16002
Windows 2008 R2
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16. By the numbers
Windows 2008 R2
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17. 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
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18. 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
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19. 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
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20. 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.
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21. Questions?
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22. For more information, please contact
Thank You Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst
508.381.5169 | bob.laliberte@esg-global.com
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