TPC Benchmark for IBM System x 3850 M2 Featuring Emulex FC HBA

Emulex
Corporation announced that its LightPulse
8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) enabled a new
record-level Transaction Processing Performance Council
(TPC) benchmark. The Emulex LPe12000 8Gb/s HBAs, coupled
with the IBM System x 3850 M2 server, Microsoft SQL Server
2008 and Windows Server 2008, provides the industry-leading
system configuration that produced a 14 percent increase
in the total number of transactions performed per second
over a similar test conducted in 2007.

"This ground-breaking performance is a result of our ongoing
collaboration with IBM and Microsoft to deliver the highest
performance solutions that today’s enterprise-class data
centers demand,” said Mike Smith, executive vice president
of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "Emulex’s new LPe12000
8Gb/s HBAs provide the critical I/O performance and features,
such as MSI-X support, that meet the increasing requirements
of large transactional databases.”

The record-setting performance is a direct result of the
compatibility and advanced features of these new products,
such as the increased 8Gb/s Fibre Channel speed of Emulex
LPe12000 HBAs and support for the Message-Signaled Interrupts
eXtended (MSI-X) standard, featured in Microsoft Windows
Server 2008. MSI-X delivers the interrupt handling mechanism
that enables improved performance and is ideal for transaction
intensive environments, such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
In addition, MSI-X enables reduced host CPU utilization
and greater I/O scalability by allocating each Emulex LPe12000
HBA with its own set of interrupts.

"Today’s IT customers expect a comprehensive development
and business intelligence platform that empowers users with
the high-performance information processing they require,"
said David Powell, director SQL Server Performance at Microsoft
Corp. "SQL Server 2008, running on Windows Server 2008 with
Emulex HBAs and the IBM System x server platform, delivers
on the Microsoft data platform vision, enabling organizations
to run their most mission-critical applications, while lowering
the cost of managing the data infrastructure and delivering
insights and information to all users."

This record-setting performance was achieved in the TPC-E
benchmark test, which is composed of a set of transactional
operations designed to represent a complex On-Line Transaction
Processing (OLTP) application environment. High transaction
environments benefit from enhanced overall system performance
by leveraging the increased speed and bandwidth available
with Emulex LPe12000 HBAs. The TPC creates numerous benchmarking
tests, which are used to calibrate the performance of the
latest software and hardware components available to IT
professionals.

To read this TPC benchmark, click on: TPC Benchmark E for IBM System x 3850 M2 Featuring Emulex LightPulse LPe12000 Fibre Channel HBA

Transaction Processing Performance Council
(TPC)

Emulex Corporation