Converged Network Adapter of Choice for Virtualized Data Centers

Competitive Brief

QLogic 8200 Series Converged Network Adapter Outperforms Emulex and Brocade

Key Benefits

The QLogic 8200 Series Converged Network Adapter leads the industry in CPU efficiency, application performance, and data backup times and reliability.

Competitive Brief

Industry Challenges 8KB Block Size 4KB Block Size Read/Write Write 30,000 Virtualization of networks, storage, servers, and applications continues to grow in the data center. While virtualization provides many benefits, 25,000

20,000 virtual deployment workloads have been increasing the demands placed Efficiency QLE8252 on the network I/O infrastructure, which can significantly impact system 15,000 BR-1020 IOPS/CPU% and application performance. To address performance demands, 10GbE OCe10102-F 10,000 X520

Converged Network Adapters can be used to provide the required capability Performance within the network. However, it is important to select a Converged Network 5,000 QLogic QLogic Intel Intel Brocade Emulex Adapter that offers the best performance and efficiency in a virtualized 0 Microsoft Exchange 2007 Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment. QLogic Outperforms Emulex and Brocade Key Advantages Over Competitors QLogic 8200 Series Converged Network Adapter Application Advantages •• Higher Application Performance. As demonstrated in the chart shown above, the QLogic® 8200 Series Converged Network Adapter delivers •• Line Rate Performance – Leading CPU Efficiency1 the best application performance, making it an ideal solution for high- The QLogic adapter offloads all of the TCP/IP, FCoE, and density virtualized and cloud computing environments. iSCSI protocol processing from the server CPU. As a result, •• Lowest Cost of Ownership – Powered by ConvergeFlex®. Offering more CPU resources are available for advanced applications the lowest CPU utilization, the QLogic 8200 Series is the only Converged and virtualization. Network Adapter in the industry to provide concurrent, high-performance offloads for TCP/IP, FCoE, and iSCSI simultaneously over one wire. This •• Best Enterprise-Class Application Performance1 allows for the highest VM density in a virtualized server environment. In a Microsoft Exchange® 2007 environment, the QLogic TM adapter has a performance efficiency advantage of 54 percent •• Superior Virtualization Technology (VMflex ). QLogic’s VMflex over Emulex® and 189 percent over the Intel® software FCoE technology encompasses OEM proprietary I/O virtualization (Flex-10 and initiator. In a Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment, the QLogic VF A), industry-standard technologies (VEB/VEPA), and NIC Partitioning adapter’s performance efficiency advantage is 33 percent over (NPAR), which delivers switch-agnostic I/O partitioning. the Brocade® adapter and 295 percent over Intel’s software •• Market Leadership. According to Dell’Oro Group, QLogic is the market FCoE initiator. leader for Converged Network Adapters with a double-digit lead over the nearest competitor. With more than 10 million Fibre Channel ports 1 •• Exceptional Business Continuity deployed, QLogic’s software stack is battle hardened and validated The QLogic adapter offers significantly shorter backup times across all major OSs, hypervisors, and hardware platforms. and higher reliability for data. In sequential write operations, ® the QLogic adapter performs 71 percent faster than the •• Single-Pane-of-Glass Manageability. QConvergeConsole delivers a Emulex adapter. unified, Web-based, single-pane-of-glass management console across a broad product line of storage and networking adapters.

1In head-to-head benchmarks performed in Windows Server® 2008 R2 using the Iometer benchmarking tool.

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