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Emulex Provides 10Gb Ethernet Virtual Fabric Adapter 5 for New Lenovo Servers
Emulex
Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring
and management, today announced new Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter 5
(VFA5) technology for the new Lenovo (News - Alert) servers, based on the new Intel
Xeon processor E5-2600/1600 v3 product families. The new Flex System
CN4058S 8-port 10Gb VFA and CN4052 2-port 10Gb VFA are designed to
reduce cost and complexity, increase performance, accelerate data, and
support enterprise workloads such as virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI), big data analytics, database management and emerging compute
architectures.
"We are in the midst of an evolution across the server, networking and
storage industries as virtualization, software-defined networking, big
data analytics, and the move to public, private and hybrid cloud
environments continues to put pressure on networks to be faster and more
agile, requiring workload optimized I/O to become of paramount
importance," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing,
Emulex. "New Emulex VFA5 technology for the Flex System server family
addresses these workload requirements with improved server utilization,
increased small packet performance and RDMA over Converged Ethernet
(RoCE) support, delivering application and storage acceleration for next
generation data center infrastructures."
"The new Flex System family provides the security, efficiency and
reliability required for next generation enterprise data centers," said
Jeff Howard, vice president, Flex System and BladeCenter, Lenovo.
"Emulex VFA5 technology combined with the new Flex System accelerates IT
workloads and increases data center efficiency across a wide range of
I/O intensive enterprise, cloud and telco workloads."
Emulex VFA5 technology provides the following key benefits for next
generation Flex System server customers:
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Reducing Cost and Complexity: The Flex System CN4058S 8-port
and CN4052 2-port VFA5 adapters are cost- and performance-optimized
for integrated and converged infrastructures by offering a "triple
play" of converged data, storage, and low latency RDMA networking on a
common Ethernet fabric. This gives a flexible storage protocol option
for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged
infrastructures. The Flex System CN4058S and CN4052 VFA5 adapters
deliver server power savings due to lower CPU usage, ranging from 50
watts to almost 100 watts per server vs. competing adapters1.
These adapters also support Virtual Fabric Mode (vNIC1) and Switch
Independent Mode (vNIC2), and now Unified Fabric Port (UFP).
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Accelerating Data and Improving Performance: Flex System
CN45058S and CN4052 VFA5 adapters support RDMA over Converged Ethernet
(RoCE), which accelerates applications such as Microsoft (News - Alert) SQL Server
when using Windows Server SMB Direct, delivering application and
storage acceleration through faster I/O operations. Flex System VFA5
adapters include Emulex Virtual Network Exceleration™ (VNeX)
technology which offloads the header encapsulation process of next
generation overlay network protocols, simplifying virtual machine (VM)
mobility and network scalability, while optimizing server performance
when compared to adapters without offload capabilities. Emulex VNeX
technology allows customers to maintain CPU utilization thresholds and
reduce CPU usage fluctuations, while adding more workloads to each
server in virtual networking environments.
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Creating Workload and Storage Connectivity Flexibility: Lenovo
VFA5 adapters deliver up to a 4x boost in small packet network
performance1, vs. previous generation adapters, which is
critical to scale transaction-heavy and clustered applications and
workloads such as telco, Web-scale and messaging environments. The
Lenovo VFA5 adapters support FCoE offload, which accelerates storage
protocol processing, and deliver up to 1.5 million I/O operations per
second (IOPS), which is 2x better than previous generation adapters,
enabling the server's processing resources to focus on applications
and improve the server's performance1. The Lenovo VFA5
adapters also support iSCSI offload, providing performance that is
superior to iSCSI solutions based on software initiators and standard
ICs, and support TCIP/IP and iSCSI or FCoE offloads on the same port
(i.e. concurrent storage). FoCE and iSCSI offloads are available
through Feature on Demand (FoD), which allows customers to lower their
costs by allowing them to initially purchase a NIC (News - Alert) and upgrade as
their needs grow.
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Based on IT
Brand Pulse OCe14000 Performance Test Report, July 2014
Additional Resources:
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Read our blog
on today's news in the Down to the Wire @Lenovo blog.
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Learn more about Emulex solutions for Lenovo on this microsite
and LinkedIn
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About Emulex
Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management,
provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that
support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex's
products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility,
optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings,
including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre
Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and
storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC,
Fujitsu (News - Alert), Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found
in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex's
monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network
visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete
network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is
headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research
facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com.
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