One Product, One SKU, Multiple I/O Connectivity Options

In a market landscape that has more I/O options to choose from than ever before, the XE201 I/O controller provides best-of-breed Fibre Channel technology, along with Ethernet and multiple protocols, providing unique connectivity combinations on a single ASIC.

The XE201 delivers the industry’s first native 16Gb/s Fibre Channel and 10Gb/s Ethernet product that enables you to choose a combination of up to four ports of native 8 and 16Gb/s Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), 10 and 40Gb/s Ethernet for the ultimate in design flexibility.

The XE201 delivers a low-power, single-chip solution that may be incorporated into industry standard PCI Express expansion cards, custom format mezzanine cards, special-purpose storage target controllers, daughter cards or integrated directly into a system motherboard (e.g., LOM).

Breakthrough Scalability Powers More Virtual Machines, More Workload

With its unique eight processor core architecture, the XE201 takes convergence and scalability to a new level to support ever-expanding virtualization and cloud initiatives.

The XE201 implements in hardware what was previously designed into firmware to deliver optimum performance. The controller design took a holistic system approach with Emulex vEngine™ technology, offloading more I/O onto the XE201 ASIC, thereby lowering the CPU burden on the host server. In terms of scalability, the XE201 supports up to 255 Virtual Functions (VFs), 1024 Message Signal Interrupts (MSI-X), 8192 concurrent logins and open exchanges for Fibre Channel and FCoE, and 2048 queue pairs for Ethernet. Emulex vScale™ dynamic resource pooling enables unmatched workload scalability across protocols.