Emulex 16Gb FC HBAs Certified by Infortrend

Emulex Corporation and Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced that Emulex LightPulse 16G FC LPe16000B HBAs have been certified for Infortrend’s 16GFC EonStor DS G7i RAID storage solutions.

16GFC HBAs have been tested for compatibility and performance, ensuring Infortrend 16GFC storage users enjoy a high-performance, end-to-end 16GFC SAN solution.

"Today’s SANs are under pressure to keep pace with data growth, VM density and application performance requirements," said Shaun Walsh, SVP of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "With this end-to-end 16GFC SAN infrastructure solution, which utilizes the world’s fastest and most reliable 16GFC HBAs from Emulex, we’re stretching the capabilities of what is possible for today’s bandwidth-intensive data centers."

With this certification, Emulex 16GFC HBAs are interoperable with the new EonStor DS G7i 16GFC storage solutions. The SAN solution meets the demand for faster bandwidth and higher throughput, and unleashes the potential of multi-core processor and SSD-driven applications and services.

16GFC EonStor DS G7i series provides a boost in performance by doubling throughput and providing superior IOPS and are backward compatible with customers’ existing 4GFC and 8GFC infrastructures allowing customers to optimize and future proof their storage environments.

"Infortrend’s 16GFC storage solutions are the answer to those seeking to guarantee the best possible performance – both now and in the future – over FC networks," said Thomas Kao, senior director of product planning at Infortrend. "We are partnering with industry leaders to add quality and proven 16GFC technology to our new EonStor DS storage solutions and provide our users with the best choice in high-speed HBAs to allow the 16GFC storage to reach its full potential."

Emulex 16GFC technology enables Infortrend customers to meet the demanding IT environments in the following ways:

• FC Performance: 16GFC technology delivers up to 1.2 million IOPS on a single port, enabling its LightPulse HBAs to meet the needs of performance hungry applications, SSD and virtualized and cloud computing environments. Competing HBAs are limited to half the IOPS per port, preventing resource scaling between ports and potentially putting SLAs at risk.
• Increased I/O Bandwidth with PCIe 3.0 Support: 16GFC technology supports PCIe 3.0, which provides a faster I/O bus, more PCIe lanes and increased I/O bandwidth, enabling the technology to match the performance capabilities of server platforms based on the new Xeon processor E5-2600 product family.
• GreenState Power Efficiency: 16GFC technology reduces data center power consumption and associated OPEX by delivering power to port ratios of less than three watts per port.
• Reliability: The LightPulse family of HBAs has the industry’s highest published MTBF, delivering enterprise reliability, with MTBF of 10 million hours, essential for mission-critical, cloud and virtualized applications. (based on 2/4/8/16GFC HBAs)