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Emulex Ethernet and 16Gb FC Connectivity for New Lenovo ThinkServer Family

High density network I/O and increased efficiency with support for FCoE, iSCSI and RoCE offloads

Emulex Corporation is delivering a range of I/O connectivity solutions for the next generation Lenovo Group Ltd.‘s ThinkServer family, based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product families, designed to support next generation database, compute and virtualization workloads and to meet the interoperability and reliability requirements of enterprise and scale-out data centers.

Emulex is delivering AnyFabric LPm15004 8Gb FC and LPm16002 16GFC adapters, as well as OCm14000 10GbE CNAs with hardware offload support for FCoE, iSCSI and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), enabling flexible, performance, high density I/O for the next generation Lenovo ThinkServer family. Additionally, the OneConnect OCe14000 10GbE and 40GbE CNAs and LightPulse Gen 5 16Gb LPe16000 FC HBAs are qualified and available as ThinkServer adapter options.

The new integrated OCm14000 CNAs and LPm15004/LPm16002 FC AnyFabric adapters not only free up server space and reduce cabling and infrastructure requirements, but provide hardware offloads for FCoE, iSCSI and RoCE, further improving server utilization and compute density,” said Shaun Walsh, SVP marketing, Emulex. “The performance, scalability and management features of the ThinkServer I/O connectivity portfolio provided by Emulex align with the core target applications – data center, research, cloud computing and virtualization, and the core target workloads – compute-intensive, Hadoop, databases, enterprise virtualization and big data analytics – of the next generation ThinkServer family, providing customers with the fastest I/O for their next generation data center infrastructures.”

The next generation ThinkServer family addresses today’s data center architectures and business-critical workloads with enterprise, industry-standard solutions that provide the ideal balance of performance and features, flexibility and integration with our enterprise product offerings,” said Darrel Ward, VP and GM, enterprise product group, Lenovo. “The Emulex connectivity portfolio for the next generation ThinkServer family, including the new AnyFabric adapters, frees up server space, offers flexible workload connectivity options and accelerates application performance.”

New I/O connectivity solutions align with following benefits
of next generation Lenovo ThinkServer family:

  • Accelerated Application Performance: ThinkServer CNAs support RoCE, which accelerates applications such as SQL Server when using Windows Server SMB Direct, delivering application and storage acceleration through faster I/O operations. The ThinkServer Gen 5 FC HBAs also improve application performance with up to 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IO/s)1, which is 20% more than other Gen 5 FC HBAs, and up to 3x faster for Oracle databases and 2x faster for SQL Server deployments.
  • Improved Virtualization Agility and Cloud Scale Networking: Lenovo ThinkServer CNAs include Emulex Virtual Network Exceleration (VNeX) technology which offloads the header encapsulation process of next generation overlay network protocols, simplifying VM mobility and network scalability, while optimizing server performance when compared to adapters without offload capabilities. 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.
  • Increased Workload Scalability: ThinkServer CNAs deliver up to a 4x boost in small packet network performance2, vs. previous generation adapters, which is critical to scale transaction-heavy and clustered applications and workloads such as telco, Web-scale and messaging.
  • Flexible Workload Storage Connectivity with FCoE and iSCSI Offloads: The ThinkServer CNAs support FCoE offload using the same enterprise Emulex drivers that work with LightPulse FC HBAs. They also support iSCSI offload, providing performance that is superior to iSCSI solutions based on software initiators and standard NICs. Finally the ThinkServer CNAs have the ability to support TCIP/IP and iSCSI or FCoE offloads on the same port (i.e. concurrent storage).
  • Simplified and Flexible System Management: Emulex enables deployment of its AnyFabric adapters by integrating Emulex driver and firmware deployment into the ThinkServer Deployment Manager. Additionally, adapters deliver integrated diagnostics and thermal monitoring for the ThinkServer System Management tools ensuring reliability.

1. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb FC HBA Evaluation, October 2012
2. Based on IT Brand Pulse OCe14000 Performance Test Report, July 2014

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