Emulex Blog: Emulex Labs

See Emulex's CNAs In Action at Partners' Labs

Posted December 4th, 2009 by Emulex Labs Team

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When an exciting new technology comes out it can sometimes feel more like myth rather than reality. Similar to Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster, or the Unicorn, it can often be talked about but rarely seen or heard. The good news is there are many places to see Emulex Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) in action prior to buying them.

As leaders in converged networking, Emulex Labs works with our ecosystem partners to deploy Emulex CNAs as part of partner tested solutions. Below is a list of some of the partner demonstration labs where Emulex CNAs are deployed:
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Welcome to Emulex Labs

Posted July 24th, 2009 by Emulex Labs Team

Emulex Labs is not your ordinary corporate blog. Emulex Labs is about bits instead of wits, and specs over spin.

Emulex Labs includes the collective of Emulex engineers and techies who benchmark, configure, test, demonstrate and support Emulex adapters for a living. They also explore the functionality, performance and potential limitations of our competitors’ product offerings. They are the “Real Gurus” of connectivity.

This blog is a forum for sharing our tribal knowledge on network convergence, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, management and configuration of Emulex product capabilities, and G2 on competitive products. We will share information on currently shipping products, as well as some that are still in the labs. For IT folks, we will share helpful hints on how to make your storage area network (SAN) run better or provide undocumented time-saving tips. Our labs are overflowing with relevant, yet not widely communicated, stuff that you will hopefully find interesting. If you have your own findings or information, we invite you to share them with us. Or, if you have a question, e-mail it to emulex-labs@emulex.com.

This week, Emulex is hunkering down, preparing for the release of our OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA).

Thao Vo, one of our curious Technical Marketing Managers, was eager to measure the relative performance of our new UCNA compared to our 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s host bus adapters (HBAs) in terms of IOPS and bandwidth, so he plugged an Emulex LPe11000 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA, Emulex LPe12000 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs and Emulex OneConnect 10Gb/s Universal CNA to Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch and configured it, using failover multipathing, to a common set of targets. Thao used IOmeter to benchmark the performance and created this video.

Watch it. We think you will be surprised.

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