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    Top Ten for Intel® Nehalem-based Xeon® Processor Platforms and Emulex® LightPulse® and OneConnect™ Adapters

    Top Ten for Intel® Nehalem-based Xeon® Processor Platforms and Emulex® LightPulse® and OneConnect™ Adapters

    1. Optimized System Efficiency - 30% Increase> MORE
      System efficiency of Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processor 5500, 5600 and 7500 series server platforms are substantially improved with their scalable, shared memory architecture and Intel QuickPath Technology. When configured with Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters, efficiency increases due to optimization around the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture and Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X). Testing of the Emulex LPe12000 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA and the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series server resulted in a demonstrated 30% increase in CPU efficiency over the previous generation server.
    2. Maximum I/O Performance - Increased by 3.4x> MORE
      Server performance is maximized with the Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors and their integrated memory controller, PCI Express 2.0, and innovative Intel technologies—QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), Turbo Boost Technology, and Hyper- Threading Technology. Emulex LightPulse 8Gb/s Fibre Channel and OneConnect 10Gb/s Ethernet adapters complement these new platforms with offloads for storage and networking protocols to achieve maximum server performance. Testing with the Emulex LPe12000 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs with framelevel multiplexing, out-or-order frame reassembly, and NUMA optimized firmware and driver stack resulted in benchmarks of up to 225% increase of IOPs per GHz of CPU resource and 3.4 times maximum IOPs versus the previous generation servers.
    3. Server Virtualization Scalability> MORE
      The Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors deliver innovations that boost server virtualization performance by up to 2x based on VMware vConsolidate benchmarks and increase consolidation ratios resulting in the scaling of virtual machine deployments. With an increased number of virtual machines, the requirement for a scalable and high performance I/O architecture is critical. Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters, with their scalable designs supporting over a thousand simultaneous exchanges and remote logins, are ideal complements to these new Xeon processor-based servers. In particular, the LPe12000 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA supports 4,000 simultaneous exchanges and remote logins.
    4. Virtualization Technology Enhancements > MORE
      With hardware-assist capabilities in the processor with Intel VT-x and in the chipset with Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d), the Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors improve virtualization benefits through added flexibility and manageability. The Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters enhance these benefits to include I/O connectivity improvements through N-Port Virtualization ID (NPIV) and virtual ports. With virtual ports, Emulex adapters virtualize I/O connections for flexible, simplified and enhanced management of SAN connections in server virtualization environments. The result is an ideal server virtualization solution for virtual machine migration, load balancing, and disaster recovery.
    5. End-to-End Power Management > MORE
      The Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors and their new intelligent power technologies puts power management in all platform components—the processor, chipset, and memory—with 5x as many operating states, a 5x reduction in idle power, and 5x faster transitions to and from low-power states. The Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters add PCI Bus Power Management and PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM) to enable Intel and Emulex to deliver complete end-to-end power management for the green data center.
    6. Reduced Energy Costs > MORE
      Energy efficiency estimations for the Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processor 5500 series show that customers who replace older Intel servers will recoup their CapEx within as little as 8 months and realize an estimated reduction of 90% annual energy OpEx. The energy costs for SAN connectivity are further reduced with the cooler temperature and lower power consuming Emulex 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs and the LPe12002 Fibre Channel I/O controller running a substantial 20° cooler than its competitor.
    7. Accelerated Return on Investment (ROI) > MORE
      Research indicates that upgrading to servers based on the higher performing, more efficient Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors will accelerate ROI. The energy cost savings alone should pay for the Xeon processor 5500 series-based servers in 8 months and with up to 9x performance compared to currently installed singlecore servers, the overall savings are substantial. The additional platform solution cost consideration is the Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters required to achieve optimal performance, virtualization, and scalability benefits.
    8. Enhanced Boot from SAN > MORE
      The Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with its newer user interface and additional functionally is the primary firmware reference choice for the Intel Xeon 5500, 5600 and 7500 processor based platforms replacing legacy BIOS support. For the boot from SAN configuration in the UEFI environment, the Emulex UEFI boot driver for LightPulse and OneConnect adapters enables all the redundancy, availability, and serviceability advantages of fabric connectivity for reduced system management costs and increased uptime.
    9. Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)> MORE
      With the Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processor 5500, 5600 and 7500 series, Intel QPI’s tightly integrated reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features ensure high reliability with implicit CRC with link-level retry to ensure data quality and performance, self-healing links, clock fail-over, and hot plug capability. The Xeon processor 7500 series includes mainframe-class RAS with Machine Check Architecture (MCA) recovery error correction. With the Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters, Emulex implements end-to-end data protection with hardware parity, CRC, ECC and other advanced error checking and correcting to verify data blocks passed from the host interface through the adapter are safe from data corruption.
    10. Broad Qualification and Interoperability > MORE
      Emulex works closely with Intel and its IHV Optimization Lab to ensure that Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters are interoperable and optimized for the Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors. Together, the Intel Xeon processor 5500, 5600 and 7500 series in rack, tower, and blade server configurations and Emulex LightPulse and OneConnect adapters in standard and mezzanine form factors have been qualified and are available from all major server vendors.