解决方案

Connect with Emulex

Emulex Blogs

企业都在想方设法优化性能，同时降低成本，而服务器虚拟化已成为实现这些目标的重要变革技术。VMware® vSphere® 4包含了一系列新产品，可以提供更高的可扩展性、灵活性和可靠性，实现服务器虚拟化，为实现云计算铺平道路。有了VMware vSphere 4，数据中心就能够以一种灵活而经济高效的方式交付各种计算资源。

VMware vSphere 4需要可扩展、可靠的数据基础架构来支持当前的服务器虚拟化和将来的下一代云计算。Emulex® LightPulse®主机总线适配器（HBA）和聚合网络适配器（CNA）可以提供到基于光纤通道协议的存储区域网的高速、高性能连接,从而满足这一需求。

Emulex HBA和CNA可与VMware vSphere 4协同运行，实现以下目的：

  • 大幅度降低服务器资本支出和运营成本
  • 提高CPU效率,卸载CPU负载,改进服务器整合
  • 最大化I/O带宽，支持基于SLA的应用，满足高峰时段的需求
  • 通过融合的10 Gb/s光纤通道和IP网络降低网络成本
  • 以在线方式高效地管理Emulex HBA和CNA，支持所有ESX和ESXi服务器

如果您希望降低成本，优化数据中心资源，我们邀请您了解与VMware vSphere 4一同使用Emulex HBA、CNA和管理应用可带来的各种优势。

Emulex LightPulse HBAs and OneConnect 10GbE Network Adapters work with VMware vSphere 4.1 to: click to view

Emulex LightPulse HBAs and OneConnect 10GbE Network Adapters work with VMware vSphere 4.1 to: click to hide

  • Dramatically reduce server capital and operational costs
  • Expand scalability with “cloud scale” capabilities that include 3,000 VMs per cluster
  • Increase server consolidation with improved  CPU efficiency and CPU offload
  • Maximize I/O bandwidth to support SLA-based applications and demand peaks
  • Reduce network costs with a converged 10 Gb/s FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
  • Optimize efficiency with vSphere 4.1 support for iSCSI adapters that provide hardware offload for the iSCSI protocol and TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
  • Efficiently manage Emulex adapters online for all ESX and ESXi servers

Emulex OneCommand Vision brings proactive management of I/O within virtualized data centers: click to view

Emulex OneCommand Vision brings proactive management of I/O within virtualized data centers: click to hide

OneCommand Vision is an intelligent application that enables IT administrators to maximize network resource utilization, proactively manage performance and availability and assess I/O infrastructure requirements for consolidation efforts within the data center by monitoring and analyzing the physical as well as virtual I/O layers. This includes the operating system, adapters, fabrics, and the array end-points.

While virtualization technologies have introduced greater computing flexibility into data center environments, they’ve also made detection of I/O bottle necks more difficult.  In a virtualized data center environment, I/O health is very critical.

As IT administrators deploy more applications to run on VMs, the performance of these applications depend on the performance of the I/O. The fact remains that virtualization technologies still depend on a physical infrastructure and virtualized environments create multiple layers which can mask where I/O issues lay. OneCommand Vision is the ideal solution to effectively unmask such issues and help maintain optimum application performance and availability.

With OneCommand Vision IT administrators can:

SEE - End-to-end I/O performance at the

  • Application Level
  • Server level
  • Storage level
  • LUN level

SOLVE - I/O degradation issues

  • I/O oversubscription
  • Availability issues
  • I/O infrastructure resource requirement 

SAVE - Realize greater savings within the data center

  • Enhance application availability
  • Improve asset utilization
  • Increase management efficiency  

If you’re looking to reduce costs and optimize your data center resources, we invite you to learn more about the synergistic benefits of using Emulex adapters and management applications with VMware vSphere 4.1.