Product Brief Emulex® Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs LPe31000/LPe32000-Series for Cisco UCS C-Series and MDS 9000 Product Family Faster Flash. Better Accelerate Virtualization. Lossless The unique Emulex Dynamic Networking. Multi-core Architecture delivers unparalleled performance and The Emulex Gen 6 (16/32Gb) more efficient port utilization than Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus other HBAs by applying all ASIC Adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom resources to any port that needs it. are designed to address the demanding performance, reliability Compared to the previous Faster Flash and management requirements of generation, Emulex Gen 6 HBAs • Completes data warehousing modern networked storage systems deliver 2x greater bandwidth—up 1 transactions in 1/4 of the time that utilize high performance and to 12,800MBps (2 ports 32G, full • Meet the massive bandwidth low latency solid state storage duplex), less than half the latency, requirements of flash storage arrays drives for caching and persistent and support an industry-leading with up to 32GFC throughput storage as well as hard disk drive 1.6 million IOPS on a single port, • Maximize the performance of arrays. ensuring SLAs are met. Emulex flash-based systems by prioritizing mission-critical traffic in congested Gen 6 HBAs are an excellent networks with the exclusive Fibre Channel is the gold standard choice for database applications ExpressLane feature for network storage connectivity in as recent TPC-H testing in a data • NVMe-enabled capability delivers enterprise and cloud deployments. warehousing environment have an additional 55% lower latency and The latest Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs demonstrated up to 71% faster supports NVMe over Fabrics and offer higher performance, lower completion times vs. the previous SCSI concurrently latency, enhanced diagnostics generations of HBAs. To enable the Better Virtualization and manageability for Cisco highest Virtual Machine density, UCS C-Series rack servers. The • Near limitless scalability to support Gen 6 HBAs provide support for maximum VM density with 2X more LPe32000-series HBAs are available up to 255 virtual functions, 1,024 on-chip resources & bandwidth with single or dual 32GFC optics. Message Signaled Interrupts and • Improved VDI experience with low- The LPe31000 is available with dual- expansive on-board context for latency HBAs providing noticeable port 16GFC optics. exchanges and logins. improvements during boot storms • Simplified management & installation Unique to Fibre Channel technology with OneCommand Manager plug-in is its deep ecosystem support for VMware vCenter server making it ideal for large scale, easy- 1. Demartek TPC-H testing performed with Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs in a Microsoft Lossless, Reliable to-manage storage deployments. SQL Server environment vs. the previous Networking Users can count on a complete generations of HBAs suite of management software, in- • Near zero downtime— FC’s lossless 2. Based on published FIELD MTBF of 10 design ensures no dropped packets box drivers for mainstream server million hours for the Emulex family of FC HBAs. and maximum uptime operating systems, software-defined EMULEX • Industry Leader for Reliability— storage APIs and tools, and the Emulex HBAs can provide up to 1,141 strength to support high service- years of uninterrupted service!2 level agreement (SLA) applications. Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs for Cisco UCS C-Series Product Brief NVM Express (NVMe) is a relatively transmission. FEC then provides the Control new protocol for solid-state storage receiver with the ability to correct devices built with non-volatile errors without a reverse channel to The flagship OneCommand® memory technologies. NVMe request the retransmission of data, Manager enterprise-class provides substantially lower latency which improves performance. management application features for storage I/O operations and a multiprotocol, cross-platform significantly higher IOPS per device. T10 Protection Information architecture that provides NVMe scales-up the number of (T10-PI) data integrity with high centralized management of all devices it can address by adopting performance hardware offload current and previous generations NVMe over Fabrics technology. provides data protection from the of Emulex FC HBAs. This enables IT server to the storage array. As administrators to manage network Emulex Gen 6 HBAs are NVMe one of the founders of the Data connectivity with one tool for over Fabrics-enabled, providing Integrity Initiative (DII), Emulex, maximum efficiency. an additional 55% lower latency along with Oracle and Seagate, for storage I/O operations versus was instrumental in defining the Emulex HBA troubleshooting is TM SCSI. Gen 6 NVMe-enabled T10-PI standard, which, along simplified with OneCapture , an HBAs support NVMe over Fabrics with the Data Integrity Extensions Emulex device driver utility that and SCSI concurrently, allowing (DIX) standard, delivers full gathers system, adapter, device datacenters to transition to all-flash end-to-end data integrity. T10- driver, and applications information. storage at their own pace. PI assures the validity of I/O Data collected by OneCapture operations through the exchange of is compressed into a single file and can be sent to Broadcom Protect verification information during data transmissions. Technical Support for analysis when Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs deliver debugging system issues or for enhanced security via the new Emulex HBAs are renowned for diagnostic purposes. secure firmware update feature reliability, ensuring maximum which protects and ensures the SAN uptime. Their “It Just Works” authenticity of device firmware. reputation is based on 17 million installed ports with proven Forward Error Correction (FEC) industry-leading reliability of 10 is a Gen 6 Fibre Channel standard million hours field Mean Time feature that provides enhanced Between Failures (MTBF). data reliability and performance by automatically detecting and recovering from bit errors. It is especially useful in diverse and complex user environments such as blade system implementations. FEC is a digital signal processing technique that introduces redundant data, called an error correcting code, prior to data Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs for Cisco UCS C-Series Product Brief Standards Comprehensive OS and Agency and Safety Approvals Hypervisor Support General Specifications North America • Microsoft Windows • The LPe31000/LPe32000-series FC • FCC/ICES Class A • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HBAs are powered by the XE501 • UL/CSA Recognized controller and utilizes an eight-lane (x8) • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server PCIe 3.0 bus (backward compatibility to • VMware vSphere Europe PCIe 2.0 supported)—the architecture • CE Mark enables all resources to be applied to Hardware Environments • EU RoHS compliant any port that needs it, delivering over 1.6M IOPS on a single-port • Cisco UCS Series • TUV Bauart Certified Optical Australia Industry Standards • RCM • Data rates: 28.05 Gb/s (32GFC); • Current ANSI/IETF Standards: FC-PI-4; 14.025 Gb/s (16GFC); 8.5 Gb/s (8GFC); Japan FC-PI-5; FC-PI-6; FC-FS-3; FC-LS-2; 4.25 Gb/s (4GFC) automatically • VCCI Class A FC-GS-6; FC-DA; FC-DA-2; FCP-4; negotiated SPC-4; SBC-3; SSC-4 Taiwan • Optics: Short wave lasers with LC type • Legacy ANSI/IETF standards: FC-PH; connector • BSMI Class A FC-PH-2; FC-PH-3; FC-PI; FC-PI-2; FC-PI-3; FC-FS; FC-GS-2/3/4/5; FCP-2/3; • Cable: Operating at 32Gb Korea FC-HBA; FC-TAPE; FC-MI; SPC-3; SBC-2; - 20m at 32Gb on 50/125 μm OM2 MMF • MSIP (formerly KCC/MIC) Class A SSC-2; SSC-3 - 70m at 32Gb on 50/125 μm OM3 MMF China • PCIe base spec 3.0 - 100m at 32Gb on 50/125 μm OM4 MMF • China RoHS Compliant • PCIe card electromechanical spec 3.0 • Fibre Channel Class 3 Physical Dimensions • PHP hot plug-hot swap • Short, low profile PCIe card • 167.64mm x 68.91mm (6.60” x 2.71”) Architecture • Standard bracket (low profile bracket ships in box) Single-port LPe32000 or dual-port LPe32002 • Supports 32GFC, 16GFC and 8GFC link Environmental Requirements speeds, automatically negotiated • Operating temperature: 0° to 55°C (32° to 131°F); 150 LFM required Dual-port LPe31000 • Storage temperature: -20° to 85°C • Supports 16GFC, 8GFC and 4GFC link (-4° to 185°F) speeds, automatically negotiated • Relative humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs for Cisco UCS C-Series Product Brief Ordering Information Added Features Management Features • The Emulex OneCommand Manager The LPe31000/LPe32000-series is Performance Features application enables centralized discovery, available from Cisco using the following • Doubling the maximum FC link rate monitoring, reporting, and administration part numbers: from 16GFC to 32GFC and enhanced of HBAs provided by Emulex on local virtualization capabilities, help support IT LPe32000-M2 and remote hosts. Powerful automation “green” initiatives. Part Number: UCSC-PCIE-BS32GF capabilities facilitate remote driver • Frame-level multiplexing increases • 1 Port 32GFC Short Wave Optical – parameter, firmware and boot code link efficiency and maximizes HBA LC SFP+ (32GFC optical transceiver upgrades. performance. included) • Advanced diagnostic features, such as • Accelerates network access to SSDs adapter port beaconing and adapter LPe32002-M2 with NVMe over Fibre Channel-enabled statistics, help optimize management Part Number: UCSC-PCIE-BD32GF feature- supports the upcoming NVMe and network performance, while the • 2 Port 32GFC Short Wave Optical – over FC T11 standard environmental monitoring feature LC SFP+ (32GFC optical transceivers helps to maintain optimum host-to- Data Protection Features included) fabric connections. In addition to the • End-to-end data protection with GUI interface, management functions LPe31002-M6 hardware parity, CRC, ECC and other can also be performed via a scriptable Part Number: UCSC-PCIE-BD16GF advanced error checking and correction Command Line Interface (CLI) as well as • 2 Port 16GFC Short Wave Optical – algorithms ensure data is safe from a web browser. LC SFP+ (16GFC optical transceivers corruption. • Meet SLAs and QoS with ExpressLane included) • Enhanced silent data corruption application prioritization on hosts.