Adapter of Choice for Next-Gen SAN and Converged Networks

Competitive Brief

QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapters Outperform Alternative Adapters

The QLogic® 2600 Series Fibre Channel Adapter provides more online transactions per second, faster throughput, higher scalability for enterprise workloads, greater flexibility, and stronger investment protection than other Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters available in Dell® PowerEdge™ 12G servers.

KEY BENEFITS INDUSTRY CHALLENGES • The Ultimate in Performance: 1.2 million IOPS and 6000 MBps Data center managers need to deliver high-performance and reliable bidirectional throughput. infrastructure that is simple to manage and lowers costs. The data center manager is experiencing tremendous application growth and increased –– Increased Application Throughput: Real-world performance use of server virtualization. Some enterprise applications that require better than alternative adapters at key application block sizes. high-performance bandwidth are database, back-up, cloud computing, –– Superior Scalability: QLogic’s adapter scales by 85 data migration, disaster recovery, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). percent from single to dual port, significantly better than alternative adapters. Today, technology shifts introduce multi-core processors, solid-state drives, and PCIe® 3.0, as well as increased memory and larger server • High Availability Architecture: Unlike the architecture of workloads. These shifts allow greater agility and increase optimization alternative adapters, QLogic’s 16Gb Gen 5 ASIC architecture using new architectures. ensures complete on-chip CPU and memory isolation across both ports of the adapter, providing a high-availability solution. IT administrators need a server attach strategy to protect their infrastructure investments and get the best performance from their • Leadership, Confidence, and Trust: QLogic technology is field equipment. For organizations that continue to invest in Fibre Channel hardened with the industry’s highest number of Fibre Channel/ SANs, Gen 5 Fibre Channel brings added performance and functionality. FCoE ports currently deployed in enterprise data centers. The Gen 5 Fibre Channel is 40 percent faster than 10G Ethernet FCoE and company marked its eighth consecutive year of Fibre Channel 2x faster than 8Gb Fibre Channel, improving price per performance, market share leadership in 2012. lowering power requirements, and increasing PCIe slot conservation. • Leadership, Confidence, and Trust: QLogic technology is field In addition, Gen 5 Fibre Channel’s backward compatibility ensures hardened with the industry’s highest number of Fibre Channel/ investment protection. FCoE ports currently deployed in enterprise data centers. The company marked its eighth consecutive year of Fibre Channel market share leadership in 2012.

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KEY DIFFERENCES QLOGIC 2600 SERIES ENTERPRISE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE • High Availability Architecture. The QLogic 2600 Series Fibre Channel ADVANTAGES Adapter is the superior choice for the enterprise data center. The • Faster Online Transactions1. QLogic Gen 5 Fibre Channel reasons include the following: QLogic sixth-generation Fibre Channel Adapters ensure data center applications meet and exceed SLAs architecture continues to provide complete port-level isolation across its by offering up to 30 percent more online transactions per second dual-port ASIC. The architecture, unlike those of alternative adapters, for typical OLTP workloads compared to alternative adapters. provides an independent function, firmware image, transmit/receive buffers, on-chip CPU, DMA channels, and firmware image for each port. • Superior Business Scalability. The QLogic 2600 Series Fibre These capabilities enable complete port-level isolation, eliminate errors Channel Adapter delivers higher performance scalability compared and firmware crashes that propagate across both ports, and provides to alternative adapters. As business grows and more ports are deterministically predictive and scalable performance across both added, the QLogic adapter’s throughput scales by 85 percent, ports. As a result, QLogic’s technology assures five nines availability which is significantly better than Emulex’s dual-port scalability. for mission-critical applications, which is essential for enterprise data centers. 1 • Scalable Enterprise E-mail . Host more mailboxes and provide • The Ultimate in Performance. QLogic delivers higher application an unrestricted e-mail experience to mobile users by choosing performance than alternative adapters in Oracle® and Microsoft QLogic’s Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter, which enables up to 88 Exchange Server® environments. The QLogic 2600 Series outperforms percent more e-mail transactions than alternative adapters. For alternative adapters at real-world workloads (block sizes) used in more details and performance coverage, please refer to the the enterprise data center. Typical workloads for Oracle database white paper: “QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 FC HBAs Double environments are 4KB and 8KB block sizes. QLogic adapters have Performance and Flexibility.” more than 30 percent higher throughput than alternative adapters. For Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (typical block sizes of 32KB), QLogic performs up to 88 percent better than alternative adapters. 1 In head-to-head benchmarks performed in Windows Server® 2008 R2 • Unique End-to-End Consistency. QLogic enables Dell to offer the industry’s first true end-to-end Gen 5 Fibre Channel SAN with QLogic

Windows Dual Port Read/Write connectivity at both ends: from Dell 12th-generation PowerEdge rack, 7,000 tower, and blade servers to native Gen 5 Fibre Channel connectivity QLE2672 for Dell Compellent Storage. This unique position ensures the same 6,000 Alternative LPe16002Adapters market-proven QLogic Fibre Channel driver stack functions consistently 5,000 at both the server and target side of the SAN. Data center managers 4,000 can rest assured they will experience reliable Gen 5 Fibre Channel

3,000 performance from market leaders Dell and QLogic.

2,000 • Proven Leadership. According to Dell’Oro Group, QLogic is the market leader, with a double-digit lead over the nearest competitor. With more 1,000

than 13 million ports deployed across multiple hardware platforms and 0 0.5 1 2 4 8 16 32 operating systems, QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters have been field- MBps Block size (KB) tested in enterprise data centers.

QLogic Outperforms Alternative Adapters at Key Block Sizes

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I/O Adapter of Choice QLogic Alternatives Superior Performance –– Faster online transactions –– Enhanced for enterprise workloads –– Scalable and predictable performance High Availability Architecture –– Independent CPU across ports –– Independent memory across ports –– Independent firmware image across ports Unique End-to-End Consistency –– Same market-proven Fibre Channel stack at the server and target –– Consistency of drivers throughout the SAN –– Reliable Gen 5 Fibre Channel performance from the market leader

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