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Emulex Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters, drivers and management software deliver the ultimate connectivity solutions for VMware vSphere deployments; providing IT and Cloud service providers with cost-effective, high-performance, scalable and highly available virtual server connectivity solutions.
Organizations are looking for ways to optimize performance while reducing costs, and server virtualization has become the game-changing technology to achieve these objectives. VMware® vSphere® encompasses a new suite of products that provides enhanced scalability, flexibility and reliability for server virtualization and cloud computing.
With VMware vSphere, data centers can deliver computing resources in an agile, cost-effective way. VMware vSphere requires a scalable and reliable data infrastructure for today’s server virtualization and tomorrow’s next-generation cloud computing. Shared storage is a critical requirement to obtain virtual machine (VM) mobility. Whether you chose Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or NAS share storage, Emulex has the server connectivity solution.
Emulex LightPulse HBAs and OneConnect 10GbE Network Adapters work with VMware vSphere to: click to view
Emulex LightPulse HBAs and OneConnect 10GbE Network Adapters work with VMware vSphere 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 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.
