Breakthrough Features for Unique Product Differentiation

Beyond unmatched multi-protocol functionality and performance, XE201 supports a wide range of new features for both server initiator and storage target modes, including:

• End-to-end data integrity with BlockGuard™ T10 Protection Information (T10 PI) offload eliminates silent data corruption as data traverses the system from the O/S all the way to the disk array. The XE201 features high performance, hardware offload of data integrity checks, eliminating the performance penalty of software enabled T10 PI implementations
• Virtualization and Cloud Scalability::
  • vScale™ workload-based performance and scalability—multi-core ASIC engine with eight cores, running a combination of standard protocols and specialized functions
    • Eight independent processing cores enable dramatic improvement in application response time, accelerating most applications by over 50% through the IOC
    • All eight cores can work with each port. The XE201 will automatically apply all required processing power and cores to any port, which can significantly improve the performance of single port implementations
  • vScale resource pooling—dynamically allocates resources to multiple protocols, enabling scale-up of up to 255 virtual functions (VF)* + 1 physical function (PF) per ASIC
  • vEngine™—I/O offload lowers CPU burden on host server, enabling support for more VMs
  • vPath™—supports emerging I/O standards including Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) and Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB), all of which are supported by an internal Emulex Ethernet switch that allows data to be forwarded between VMs, which are collocated on same adapter, without travelling to an external switch, for higher performance and ensuring traffic isolation
• Comprehensive management support:
  • Internal thermal and power instrumentation
  • Administer multiple protocols from a single, integrated interface with OneCommand Manager
  • Common driver architecture—the same device drivers work across all generations of Emulex Fibre Channel and networking adapters and ensures in-box and in-distribution driver support with leading OS vendors

Key Features

• Combinations of 16GFC and 8GFC and/or 10GbE, or a single 40GbE port
• PCIe 3.0 bus interface
• Virtualization and cloud scalability features to support up to 255 VFs,* 2048 queue pairs for Ethernet and lower CPU overhead
• End-to-end enhanced data integrity with ECC, parity and support of Emulex-patented BlockGuard® offload implements the T10 PI standard to prevent silent data corruption
• GreenState™ power efficiency—4 times better IOPS performance per watt
• Compatible with short- and long-wave optics
• Supports Emulex Service Level Interface (SLI 4) to enable driver compatibility with standard Emulex Common Drivers
• FC/FCoE Linux Target mode driver software development kit to speed deployment
• Extensive boot code, such as support for network boot, FCoE Boot and Universal Boot
• Supports both initiator and target modes