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OF FIBRE CHANNEL OVER ETHERNET
reliable and secure infrastructures for the most critical and support existing applications
enterprise data. • Increased IT efficiency and business agility
From installation to management, Emulex provides an A converged network streamlines and eliminates repeated
extensive collection of tools and utilities to simplify the use of administrative tasks such as server and network provisioning
its FCoE CNAs across a wide range of server environments. with a “wire once” deployment model. The converged network
The installation utility streamlines the deployment of Emulex also improves business agility letting data centres
CNA drivers. The scripting capabilities supported on the utility dynamically and rapidly respond to requests for new or
enable the driver installation process to be automated for expanded services, new servers and new configurations. The
SAN wide deployment. The Emulex HBAnyware
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management converged network fully complements server virtualisation in
suite delivers a powerful management application, which is addressing the on-demand requirements of the next-
upwardly integrated with element management system generation data centre, where applications and the
applications such as IBM Director and HP System Insight infrastructure are provisioned on the fly.
Manager through the use of standard HBA APIs. This level of • Enables seamless extension of Fibre Channel SANs in the
integration greatly simplifies the process of provisioning and data centre
deploying new servers with FCoE connectivity, thereby saving Fibre Channel is the predominant storage protocol deployed
IT departments both time and money. by enterprise data centres. With the adoption of blade
servers and server virtualisation there is an
FCoE CNA Performance increased demand for Fibre Channel SANs in these
The first generation CNAs are environments. FCoE addresses this requirement by
capable of supporting up to 4Gb/s leveraging 10Gb/s Ethernet and extending proven
bandwidth for carrying Fibre Channel Fibre Channel SAN benefits to these
traffic. Given this bandwidth environments. The use of light-weight
allocation, the FCoE CNAs are encapsulation for FCoE also facilitates FCoE to
capable of supporting I/O Fibre Channel forwarding functions that are less
performance that is on par with compute intensive and thus ensures higher levels
standalone 4Gb/s Fibre Channel of storage networking performance.
HBAs. In laboratory tests, using the • Maintains alignment with existing operational models and
Cisco Nexus 5000 switch provisioned with a Fibre Channel administrative domains
module, the single port Emulex LP21000 CNA supported data FCoE-based converged networks provide IT architects with
throughput of 780MB/s (full duplex) and 150K IOPS, which is the ability to design a data centre that aligns with existing
equivalent to the performance of the Emulex LPe11000 4Gb/s organisation structure and operational models. This minimises
Fibre Channel HBA. the need to unify or significantly overhaul operational
procedures used by storage and networking IT staff.
Benefits of FCoE Enabled Network Convergence
An FCoE enabled converged network provides the following key Conclusion
benefits to IT organisations: FCoE fully leverages Fibre Channel investments and provides
• Lower total cost of ownership through several key data centre benefits. Enterprises are well
infrastructure simplification positioned to now begin deploying the technology in a phased
A converged network based on FCoE lowers the number of approach, so as to streamline the process for mass adoption.
cables, switch ports and NICs required to maintain both Emulex helps ease FCoE adoption by leveraging the field proven
SAN and LAN connectivity. The reduction in the number of Emulex LightPulse architecture and by adopting a common
NICs facilitates the use of smaller servers and the expanded driver model across FCoE CNAs and Fibre Channel HBAs. This
offload to the CNA enables higher CPU efficiency which approach helps remove uncertainties and provides the same
directly affects power and cooling costs. level of reliability, performance and manageability associated
• Consolidation, while protecting existing investments with other Emulex products. Further, Emulex has closely
FCoE lets organisations phase the roll out of converged partnered with Cisco in developing a well integrated solution
networks. The technology drives consolidation in new that lowers the total cost of network infrastructure and
deployments without affecting the existing server and enables organisations to be more adaptive in meeting their
storage infrastructure or the processes required to manage dynamic IT requirements.
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