Emulex Gen 7 Product Brief Fibre Channel HBAs LPe35000/LPe36000-Series Next-Gen HBAs for the Modern Data Center The Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom are designed for demanding mission-critical workloads and emerging applications. Applications continue to grow in size and scale, and to support them, enterprises are increasingly turning to new server technologies that contain hundreds of processor cores as well as high- performance storage solutions including low-latency NVMe, all-flash arrays (AFAs). NVMe can significantly increase the performance of storage area networks (SANs), making the selection of high-speed networking technology the critical element for achieving maximum system-wide performance. Fibre Channel is purpose-built for storage networks, meeting the requirements for high availability, scalability, predictable performance, and low latency. Compared to the previous generation, Emulex Gen 7 FC HBAs offer up to 2x higher bandwidth, 3x better latency, enhanced security, and operational efficiency for 32GFC and 64GFC SANs. Emulex LPe35000-series HBAs are available with single, dual, or quad 32GFC optics. The single-port and dual- Emulex LPe35004, LPe35000, and LPe35002 port models can be upgraded with 64GFC optics to tackle the toughest workloads, including NVMe deployments. Gen 7 32GFC provides seamless Accelerate Workload backward compatibility to 16GFC and 8GFC networks. Emulex LPe36000- series HBAs are available with single and dual 64GFC optics and provide Performance for NVMe seamless backward compatibility to 32GFC and 16GFC networks. Data Centers Emulex fully supports new industry standards that further enhance Accelerate workloads with up to 1 3x better latency than the previous Broadcoms autonomous SAN innovations to self-learn, self-optimize, and generation. self-heal, proactively keeping the SAN running at maximum speed and avoiding downtime. The new industry standards supported by Emulex Speed up applications and AFAs around Fabric Performance Impact Notifications (FPINs) include Link and handle peak workload I/O Integrity notification (FPIN-LI), Congestion notification (FPIN-CN), Peer spikes with up to 10M IOPS3x Congestion notification (FPIN-PN), and Delivery notification (FPIN-DN). more than the previous generation. The Emulex SAN Manager application is the first application in the industry Get faster data transfer speed with to automatically identify, minimize, and mitigate application performance the industrys first single- and problems caused by SAN congestion by utilizing the FPIN-CN standard. dual-port PCIe 4.0 HBAs delivering 2x more bandwidth per lane. Performance Easily Deploy, Manage, The Emulex Dynamic Multi-core architecture delivers unparalleled and Upgrade SANs performance and the most efficient port utilization with 8 processing Save time with no server reboots cores and 16 threads that dynamically apply ASIC resources to any port for firmware updates, queue depth that requires them, ensuring that SLAs are met. Compared to Gen 6 changes, and optics replacements. HBAs, Emulex Gen 7 HBAs can support 64GFC to deliver up to 2x greater Meet SLAs with industry-leading bandwidth. The Gen 7 HBAs deliver 12,800 MB/s (two 32GFC ports) or HBA reliability10M hours MTBF. 25,600 MB/s (two 64GFC ports) full duplex, they deliver 3x better hardware latency, and the 64GFC LPe36000-series HBAs deliver industry-leading Upgrade performance easily from 2 performance up to 10 million IOPS. 32GFC to 64GFC with Emulex- approved hot-plug optics kits. Emulex Gen 7 solutions have achieved this unprecedented performance Utilize the industry-standard by enhancing their Emulex Dynamic Multi-core architecture with fastpath INCITS/T11 specification, which hardware acceleration, reducing latency for each transaction. This includes full FPINs and signaling support to collaborate with the 1 fabric to identify and address Product Brief enhancement results in significant many operational tasks without the increased performance compared intervention of the host on which to legacy software-based solutions. they reside. Managed HBAs differ These performance advances from other adapters because they: Fully Protect Data enable Emulex Gen7 HBAs to Thwart malicious firmware with a Communicate to the Emulex SAN handle demanding workloads and Silicon Root of Trust and digitally signed firmware. Manager application and register I/O spikes experienced under peak as a managed HBA. workload conditions like no other Complies with the NIST 800-193 framework. Fibre Channel HBA in the industry. Utilize the industry-standard Verifies the digital signature INCITS/T11 specification, which during firmware download and Emulex Gen 7 HBAs support NVMe power-on. includes full FPINs and signaling over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC), Guarantee driver security with support to collaborate with the providing significantly lower latency Broadcom digitally signed drivers. fabric to identify and address versus the traditional Fibre Channel Secure Boot guarantees UEFI boot performance problems. SCSI protocol (SCSI FCP). Testing code security with digitally signed by independent performance boot code. Monitor and record performance labs has shown that NVMe/FC Data Integrity Field (T10 DIF) data and fabric notifications for can deliver up to 50% more IOPS, protects data from corruption. 4 analysis. 30% lower latency, and up to 3.4x higher online transaction processing Simplify HBA Emulex Gen 7 HBAs are easy to 5 (OLTP) transactions per minute Management and manage and save administrators than traditional SCSI FCP. Emulex time and operating costs with Remediate Network Gen 7 HBAs also support NVMe/ features such as no reboots for FC and SCSI FCP concurrently, Performance Problems firmware updates, queue depth providing investment protection and changes, or optics replacements. with the new Emulex allowing data centers to transition to Emulex Gen7 hot-plug (hot- 3 end-to-end NVMe over FC SANs at SAN Manager (ESM) swappable) optics enable optics to their own pace. Emulex Gen 7 HBAs work with the be removed and replaced without Emulex SAN Manager application shutting down the system, allowing to reduce operational cost and Emulex Gen 7 HBA port for uninterrupted service. complexity via the following: aggregation (also known as trunking) provides a method to Visibility into the endpoints of the The Emulex HBA Manager fabric aggregate physical ports to form application, formerly known as a single logical port. Aggregating Captures complete SAN HBA host Emulex OneCommand Manager, physical ports to make a single inventory host names and OS, provides centralized management software, and firmware versions. high-bandwidth datapath increases of current and previous generations the logical connection bandwidth Identifies multipath misconfiguration of Emulex FC HBAs. Emulex HBA errors via the multipath validation for applications that need it, such troubleshooting is simplified with tool. as data warehousing and virtual Emulex HBA Capture, an Emulex Centralized in-band access to machine migration. utility that gathers system, adapter, managed HBAs across the SAN and device driver information. Configures the Adaptive Congestion Data collected by HBA Capture Operational Efficiency Management feature. is compressed into a single file Emulex Gen 7 HBAs offer Enables optical transceiver statistics and can be sent to Broadcom to be downloaded for analysis to enhanced reliability, availability, Technical Support for analysis when help detect optic degradation lists and serviceability (RAS) including queue depths by port. debugging system issues or for port isolation and port-based error diagnostic purposes. Automatic identification and isolation that enables users to easily mitigation of application detect, isolate, and recover from performance problems with direct Emulex HBAs fully support the communication between Emulex errors. Brocade Fabric Vision suite of HBAs and Brocade fabric switches features, facilitating a solution from and directors Emulex Gen 7 HBAs are managed the switch to the server endpoints Visualizes SAN congestion with a HBAsintelligent adapters that have Emulex HBAs installed. dashboard that presents congestion designed to work with Emulex SAN Supported features include and bandwidth graphs. 3 Manager to reduce the complexity ClearLink (D Port), Link Cable Remediates congestion of managing enterprise-class SANs. Beaconing, Host Name Registration, automatically via the Adaptive Unlike other adapters, managed Congestion Management feature. Read Diagnostic Parameters, HBAs are designed to perform VMID, BB Credit Recovery, 3 The Emulex SAN Manager application is available separately. Contact Broadcom sales for information. 4 Emulex labs/Demartek, 2018 5 Tolly Test Report 220122, 2020 Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel HBAs