Avago LPe31000 User Manual

Product Brief

Emulex® Gen 6
Fibre Channel HBAs

LPe31000/LPe32000-Series

Faster Flash. Better Virtualization. Lossless Networking.

Faster Flash

• Completes data warehousing
transactions in 1/4 of the time

• Meet the massive bandwidth
requirements of flash storage arrays
with up to 32GFC throughput and
enable next-gen 128GFC SANs

• Maximize the performance of
flash-based systems by prioritizing
mission-critical trac in congested
networks with the exclusive
ExpressLane feature

• NVMe-enabled capability delivers
an additional 55% lower latency and
supports NVMe over Fibre Channel
and traditional SCSI over Fibre
Channel concurrently

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Better Virtualization

• Near limitless scalability to support
maximum VM density with 2X more
on-chip resources & bandwidth

• Improved VDI experience with low­latency HBAs providing noticeable
improvements during boot storms

• Simplified management &
installation with OneCommand®
Manager plug-in for VMware
vCenter server

Lossless, Reliable
Networking

• Near zero downtime— FC’s lossless
design ensures no dropped packets
and maximum uptime

• Industry Leader for Reliability—
Emulex HBAs can provide up to 1,141
years of uninterrupted service!

The Emulex Gen 6 (16/32G)
Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus
Adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom
are designed to address the
demanding performance, reliability
and management requirements
of modern networked storage
systems that utilize high
performance and low latency solid
state storage drives for caching
and persistent storage as well as
hard disk drive arrays.

Fibre Channel is the gold standard
for network storage connectivity in
enterprise and cloud deployments.
The latest Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs
oer higher performance, lower
latency, enhanced diagnostics and
manageability that benefit both
16GFC and 32GFC environments
and next-gen 128GFC SANs.
Emulex LPe31000-series HBAs
are available with single, dual or
quad 16GFC optics that can be
upgraded with 32GFC optics to
utilize the full performance of Gen
6 FC technology. A second quad­port 16GFC model is available that
features a low-profile design. It
provides the highest port density
within a low-profile form factor.
The LPe32000-series HBAs are
available with single, dual or quad
32GFC optics.

Unique to Fibre Channel
technology is its deep ecosystem
support making it ideal for large
scale, easy-to-manage storage
deployments. Users can count on
a complete suite of management
software, in-box drivers for
mainstream server operating
systems, software-defined storage

APIs and tools, and the strength
to support high service- level
agreement (SLA) applications.

Accelerate

The unique Emulex Dynamic
Multi-core Architecture delivers
unparalleled performance and
more ecient port utilization than
other HBAs by applying all ASIC
resources to any port that needs it.

Compared to the previous
generation, Emulex Gen 6 HBAs
deliver 2x greater bandwidth —
12,800 MBps (2 ports 32G, or 4
ports 16GFC, full duplex), less than
half the latency, and support an
industry-leading 1.6 million IOPS
on a single port, ensuring SLAs
are met. The quad-port LPe32004
supports SANs of up to 128GFC
by quadrupling throughput from
32GFC to 128GFC to deliver full­duplex speeds of 25,600 MBps
and up to 3.2M IOPS per adapter.
128GFC and 32GFC provide
seamless backward compatibility
to 16GFC and 8GFC networks.

1. Demartek TPC-H testing performed with

Emulex Gen 6 FC HBA s in a Microsoft
SQL Server environment vs. the previous
generations of HBAs

2. Based on published FIELD MTBF of 10

million hours for the Emulex family of FC
HBAs.

EMULEX

Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs

Product Brief

Emulex Gen 6 HBAs are an
excellent choice for database
applications as recent TPC-H
testing in a data warehousing
environment have demonstrated
up to 71% faster completion times
vs. the previous generations of
HBAs. To enable the highest Virtual
Machine density, Gen 6 HBAs
provide support for up to 255
virtual functions, 1,024 Message
Signaled Interrupts and expansive
on-board context for exchanges
and logins.

NVM Express (NVMe) is a relatively
new protocol for solid-state storage
devices built with non-volatile
memory technologies. NVMe
provides substantially lower latency
for storage I/O operations and
significantly higher IOPS per device.
NVMe scales-up the number of
devices it can address by adopting
NVMe over Fabrics technology.

Emulex Gen 6 HBAs are NVMe over
Fibre Channel-enabled, providing
an additional 55% lower latency
for storage I/O operations versus
SCSI. Gen 6 NVMe-enabled HBAs
support NVMe over Fibre Channel
and SCSI over Fibre Channel
concurrently, allowing datacenters
to transition to all-flash storage at
their own pace.

Protect

Emulex Gen 6 FC HBAs deliver
enhanced security via the new
secure firmware update feature
which protects and ensures the
authenticity of device firmware.

Forward Error Correction (FEC)
is a Gen 6 Fibre Channel standard
feature that provides enhanced
data reliability and performance
by automatically detecting and
recovering from bit errors. It is
especially useful in diverse and

complex user environments such
as blade system implementations.
FEC is a digital signal processing
technique that introduces
redundant data, called an error
correcting code, prior to data
transmission. FEC then provides the
receiver with the ability to correct
errors without a reverse channel to
request the retransmission of data,
which improves performance.

T10 Protection Information
(T10-PI) data integrity with high
performance hardware ooad
provides data protection from the
server to the storage array. As
one of the founders of the Data
Integrity Initiative (DII), Emulex,
along with Oracle and Seagate,
was instrumental in defining the
T10-PI standard, which, along
with the Data Integrity Extensions
(DIX) standard, delivers full
end-to-end data integrity. T10­PI assures the validity of I/O
operations through the exchange of
verification information during data
transmissions.

Emulex HBAs are renowned for
reliability, ensuring maximum
SAN uptime. Their “It Just Works”
reputation is based on 17 million
installed ports with proven
industry-leading reliability of 10
million hours field Mean Time
Between Failures (MTBF).

Control

The flagship OneCommand
Manager enterprise-class
management application features
a multiprotocol, cross-platform
architecture that provides
centralized management of all
current and previous generations
of Emulex FC HBAs. This enables IT
administrators to manage network
connectivity with one tool for
maximum eciency.

Emulex HBA troubleshooting is
simplified with OneCapture, an
Emulex device driver utility that
gathers system, adapter, device
driver, and applications information.
Data collected by OneCapture
is compressed into a single file
and can be sent to Broadcom
Technical Support for analysis when
debugging system issues or for
diagnostic purposes.

The LPe31000/LPe32000-series
HBAs support Brocade I/O Insight
for Gen 6 FC, which proactively and
non-intrusively monitors device and
application-level IO to gain insights
into performance and availability,
ensuring predictable performance
and operational stability.

Additionally Emulex HBAs support
the following Brocade features:

• ClearLink (D_Port)- automated
end-to-end signal integrity
checks help identify any cabling,
optics or port issues in minutes
versus hours.

• Link Cable Beaconing- locates a
connection on either the Brocade
switch port or the Emulex
HBA port by making the LED
port blink for easy end-to-end
identification.

• Host Name Registration­eliminates the need to manually
associate worldwide port names
with servers, with automated
capture of information from
Emulex HBA ports.

• Read Diagnostic Parameters­Brocade switches and Emulex
HBA ports will self-report
diagnostic information, including
port speed, link errors, and SFP
information (temperature, Tx and
Rx power, etc.).

Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs