At Emulex Labs, we often work with third parties to validate the testing we do ourselves. Recently, we invited Steven Hill, IT Brand Pulse to validate the 10GbE for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and TCP/IP performance.
Benchmarks were run on the following adapters:
- Emulex OCe10102 Product Family
- Brocade 1020
- Chelsio N310
- Intel X520
- QLogic QLE8152
Testing Accuracy
For this test series, Steven Hill, contributing analyst for IT BrandPulse, travelled to our Emulex lab in Costa Mesa. He ensured objectivity by coordinating the tests in advance, verifying the test beds for all three protocols, and running additional, random tests on all three configurations to audit the accuracy of their results and establish repeatable baseline performance.
Additionally, Emulex Labs went to great lengths to ensure that all products under test were portrayed as fairly as possible. Substantial pre-test evaluations were done with each card to determine the highest possible performance capabilities, and only the best repeatable statistics for each device was used for this study. The products tested used the most current firmware set to factory defaults and were in no way tuned or optimized to ensure that the results in this report were not skewed for any product.
IT BrandPulse concluded the following:
Emulex OneConnect offers Superior FCoE Performance
The Emulex OCe10102-F Converged Network Adapter demonstrated 919,268 IOPS (Input/Output Cycles Per Second) and exceptional throughput for read operations
Emulex OneConnect offers Superior iSCSI Performance
The Emulex OCe10102-I iSCSI Adapter achieved 400K IOPS significantly better than the competition and superior throughput regardless of I/O operations
Emulex OneConnect offers Superior TCP/IP Performance
The Emulex OCe10102-N Network Adapter demonstrated significantly better TCP/IP throughput achieving over 18Gb/s for block sizes of 256K
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