Emulex Provides Fast I/Os for New Fujitsu Primergy Servers

Emulex Corporation is delivering Ethernet and FC connectivity solutions for the new Fujitsu Ltd.‘s PRIMERGY RX, TX, BX and CX rack, tower, blade, and scale-out servers.

The new PRIMERGY servers, based on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product families, are designed to support next generation workloads such as VDI, big data analytics, and emerging compute architectures such as network functions virtualization for telcos. Emulex OneConnect 10GbE and LightPulse Gen 5 16Gb FC technologies provide the basis for the new PRIMERGY I/O connectivity portfolio, and includes a DynamicLoM (LAN on Motherboard), which is a modular, scalable and field interchangeable LOM architecture.

“Emulex partnered with Fujitsu on the modular design of the DynamicLoM architecture to enable data acceleration with RDMA over Converged Ethernet support, scale new workloads with as much as a 4x boost in small packet performance boost and lower operational cost with hardware offloads,” said Shaun Walsh, SVP marketing, Emulex. “We have also extended our long-term FC partnership with Fujitsu by adding advanced features with ExpressLane, which provides latency-based QoS in flash-based storage environments, and support for Brocade ClearLink diagnostics, which optimizes FC network integrity by validating network paths and isolating potential network issues.”

“With the new PRIMERGY generation, we not only counted on our 20 years of x86 server experience but also took inspiration from our customers, partners and the market. From the first PRIMERGY server in 1994 until the current generation, our focus has always been to further innovate usability, increase efficiency, and to make a contribution to the business-centric data center,” said Uwe Romppel, head of product development group server, product management, Fujitsu. “Emulex Ethernet and FC solutions for our PRIMERGY servers help to achieve these targets by delivering the accelerated performance, scalability and flexibility our customers need for their next generation applications.“

Ethernet I/O connectivity solutions for PRIMERGY servers include following benefits:

• Accelerated Application Performance: The new Ethernet adapters for PRIMERGY servers deliver 4x boost in small packet network performance1, vs. previous generation adapters, which is critical for transaction-heavy workloads such as telco, Web-scale and messaging applications. Additionally, Emulex has implemented RoCE to accelerate applications such as SQL Server when using Windows Server SMB Direct, delivering application and storage acceleration through faster I/O operations.
• Greener I/O with Increased Efficiency and Lower Power: Emulex vEnginestorage and overlay network protocol offload support improves CPU utilization up to 46%1, enabling heavier compute workloads and higher scalability with the ability to support more VMs per server and build faster and more scalable hybrid cloud environments. vEngine, combined with the doubled core count and faster memory in the new Xeon processors, allows customers to maintain CPU utilization thresholds and reduce CPU usage fluctuations while adding more workloads to each server. vEngine can also reduce server power consumption by up to 50 watts2, which lowers the server power costs by up to 20% (based on average power consumption of 250 watts per server).
• Improved QoS: Emulex Universal Multi-Channel support allows multiple PCI functions to be created on each adapter port. Each 10GbE port can be configured with up to eight NIC functions with granular bandwidth provisioning and will work with any 10GbE switch. This drives higher VM density on host servers, optimizes I/O utilization, enables SLA based provisioning, and simplifies deployment.

The Fujitsu LPe16000B-M6-F, LPe16002B-M6-F and MC-FC162E 16GFC adapters, based on LightPulse Gen 5 FC technology, offer more than 1.2 million IO/s on a single port2 and up to 6x greater IO/s per port than the previous generation, enabling better storage performance for cloud and storage intensive applications. Power efficiency is also improved by delivering up to 4x better IO/s per watt of power vs. previous generation HBAs. Gen 5 FC also includes ExpressLane technology, which improves both SLAs) and QoS by using prioritization flags to identify priority traffic to the fabric, alleviating congestion, reducing latency and improving throughput. Additionally, customers can optimize application performance and accelerate deployment problem resolution with integrated support for Brocade ClearLink diagnostics technology within Gen 5 FC HBAs.

Emulex FC and Ethernet adapters are based on a common driver stack and can be provisioned using OneCommand Manager, eliminating complexity and network reconfiguration in virtualized environments, while enabling unified networking through protocol convergence, accelerating time-to-market and deployment for customers’ next generation data centers.

Fujitsu I/O connectivity solutions based on Emulex technology
for PRIMERGY RX and BX rack and blade servers include:

• Modular LOMs – The Fujitsu DynamicLoMs are modular, scalable and field interchangeable with an architecture that can be configured as either a dual-port 10GbE with SFP+, dual-port 10GBASE-T, quad-port 1000BASE-T, or dual-port 1000BASE-T. It enable the consolidation of multiple networking services on a single, high-speed Ethernet adapter platform.
• Standard and Mezzanine 10Gb Ethernet Adapters – Fujitsu OCe14102-UX-F dual-port 10Gb CNA and OCec14102-UX-F dual-port 10GbE Cloud Adapter.
• Standard and Mezzanine 16Gb FC HBAs – Fujitsu LPe16000B-M6-F single-port and LPe16002B-M6-F dual-port 16GFC HBAs and MC-FC162E dual-port 16Gb FC mezzanine adapters.
• Standard and Mezzanine 8Gb FC HBAs – Fujitsu LPe1250-F8-F single-channel and LPe12002-M8-F dual-channel 8GFC HBAs and MC-FC82E dual-channel 8Gb FC mezzanine adapters.

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