Emulex OneConnect Universal CNA (Short Overview)
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The document discusses the Emulex OneConnect Universal CNA and its relevance in addressing data center challenges such as reduced budgets, operational efficiency, and increasing network bandwidth demands. It highlights cost savings from convergence technology and improved scalability and performance for virtualization. The OneConnect solution offers unified management, broad storage interoperability, and a competitive advantage over other NICs by supporting multiple protocols and providing significant savings on power, cooling, and cabling.
Emulex OneConnect Universal CNA (Short Overview)
- 1. Emulex OneConnect™ Universal CNA 1
- 2. Data Center Customer Challenges Reduced Budgets = Need for New Efficiency Virtualization = I/O Aggregation Bottleneck Operational Efficiency Server Consolidation = Cable Congestion (reducing CapEX and OpEx) Power & Cooling Costs = Green Demands DC Space Limits = Convergence Consolidation Demand for higher network bandwidth Network Environmental Connectivity Server Consolidation Concerns (heat, Concerns Blades, Virtualization cooling, space, power) Network Storage Connectivity Growth Increasing Demand for Computing Resources Emulex Confidential 2
- 3. UCNAs – Drive Data Center Wide Convergence Storage Area Network HBA 1st Gen OneConnect (SAN) CNA Universal CNA Database Database Tier SQL Servers FC L2 NIC 10Gb NIC Files Switches (NAS) FCoE FCoE Application Servers Blades Application Tier Switches Files (NAS) 2nd Level Firewall iSCSI Web Servers RDMA Web Tier Load Balancing Switches Authentication, DNS Intrusion Detect, VPN 1st Level Virtualization Web Cache Firewall Routing Switches Access Tier Edge Routers Local Remote Users Users Internet OneCommand™ Framework Emulex Confidential 3
- 4. OneConnect™ – The Universal CNA Operational Efficiency – One Card, Every Network (10Gbps NIC, iSCSI and FCoE ) – Simplifies I/O Choices & Optimizes Blade Servers Consolidation – Investment Protection for existing FC, IP infrastructures Convergenomics™ = Data Center Savings – Up to 28% savings on switches, adapters & rack space – Up to 42% savings on power and cooling – Up to 80% savings on cabling Emulex VEngine™ – Scalability & Performance for Virtualization – CPU off-load increases the number of VMs by up to 20% Emulex OneCommand™ Unified Management Emulex Confidential 4
- 5. Emulex OneConnect Universal CNA Applications Universal CNA Drives Value Across All Server Tiers! UNIVERSAL Database Tier FC HBA CNA CNA Storage Area Network (SAN) OneCommand Framework Database SQL Servers BACKEND Application Tier Database Servers Files Switches (NAS) Application Servers Switches MID-TIER Web Tier Application Servers Files (NAS) 2nd Level Firewall Web Servers FRONT END Web Load Balancing Switches Servers Emulex Confidential 5
- 6. Emulex UCNAs Scale Virtualization Emulex Expands VM Scalability Not Using Emulex V-Engine Application Performance and VMs per CPU VM VM VM VM VM VM Emulex? Off-Load technology SR-IOV Other CNAs VM VM VM VM VM VM Technology With No TOE for NAS PCI-Express No ISCSI Optimization VM VM VM VM VM VM Offload (MSI-X) More MB/S & IOPS NIC Driver Overhead VM VM VM VM VM VM Per Watt Steals CPU Cycle NIC Error 10GbE Higher Handling VM VM VM VM VM VM Bandwidth Emulex Confidential 6
- 7. OneConnect™ Advantages Common Drivers for NIC, iSCSI and FCoE products CPU Offload for all Protocols (TOE, FCoE, iSCSI, RDMA) Proven FC Drivers & Broad Storage Interoperability Support Unified Management for HBA and Universal CNA Industry Leading Performance/Watt Emulex Confidential 7
- 8. Competitive Comparison Emulex Tier 2 NIC FEATURE Vendors Common NIC drivers for NIC, iSCSI and FCoE products – – – – Leverages Existing FC and NIC Drivers – – – – Broad Storage Interoperability Support – – – Unified Storage Management – – – Software Unified NIC, iSCSI, FCoE, FC Management Software – – – – CPU Offload for all Protocols – – – – High Performance/Watt – – – – Support Model Integrated With Storage and Server OEMs – – – Emulex Confidential 8
- 9. Competitive Comparison Emulex Tier 2 NIC PROTOCOL OFFLOAD Vendors SR-IOV – iWARP – – iSCSI Offload – – NFS, CIFS Offload – – TCP/IP Offload – – NIC (stateless offload) FCoE Offload – – – – Emulex Confidential 9