Demonstrating q logic ethernet performance leadership
- 1. Demonstrating QLogic Ethernet Performance Leadership It's a very exciting time to be a member of the QLogic team. I'm referring to our recent announcement of the new QLogic NetXtreme II Ethernet products acquired from Broadcom. We moved rather quickly to demonstrate exactly what this means for QLogic customers and partners. QLogic and Dell recently participated in an interoperability and performance showcase hosted by Ethernet Alliance that demonstrates how extreme performance, decades of industry experience and cooperative design yield outstanding results. The Ethernet Alliance team interconnected two Dell servers through Dell 10GbE and 40GbE switches. Each Dell server contained two QLogic NetXtreme II 57810S dual-port 10GbE Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). John D'Ambrosia, Chairman at Ethernet Alliance described the goal of this demonstration as follows: "With this demo, Ethernet Alliance showcased a converged LAN and SAN 10/40GE data center fabric. Avago Technologies, Aquantia, Dell Networking, Dell Storage, Intel, Panduit and QLogic came together to showcase a live data center demonstration showing an open
- 2. standard Ethernet-based solution where Ethernet Alliance members are demonstrating full interoperability." I thought this was a really impressive setup, using Dell QLogic NetXtreme II 10GbE CNAs to demonstrate how a lossless iSCSI configuration could drive up to 40Gbps of iSCSI traffic in an industry standard configuration. QLogic and Dell design and build technology with ease-of-use and interoperability in mind. With the infrastructure up and running, we saw some very impressive performance, not just in terms of throughput but also in terms of low CPU utilization. The QLogic adapters did all of the network heavy lifting on the servers, as illustrated below. The I/O generator achieved a staggering bandwidth rate of 1000 MB/s or 10Gbps line rate over the entire network. Even more impressive is the CPU utilization of less than 1% with a large block I/O workload of 256K reads.
- 3. This type of network efficiency is essential for today’s virtualized data centers. Every customer I meet is either approaching maximum utilization of their servers or soon will be. This is why QLogic Ethernet adapters are so critical to business success. Choosing the wrong adapter for
- 4. your specific networking needs could lead to the purchase of more server hardware. In many cases existing hardware could be utilized more efficiently using the right QLogic Ethernet adapter. Competing Ethernet solutions do not offload all of the networking protocols as efficiently as the QLogic products, which serve to streamline administrative tasks through their deep integration into Dell's embedded management framework. Making the right choice for the "first hop" out of the server means saving money and increasing productivity. We have many more exciting announcements coming that will demonstrate how QLogic is continuing to compliment and improve upon the investments that our customers have made in their networking infrastructure. QLogic products are designed to interoperate and perform in extreme networking environments, just like yours! Be sure to check back soon for more information on all the exciting, high-performance networking and storage solutions from QLogic and Dell. For More Information, please visit: Qlogic.com