Emulex Gen 7 Product Brief Fibre Channel HBAs LPe35000-Series Next-Gen HBAs for the Modern Data Center The Emulex LPe35000 Gen 7 Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) by Broadcom are designed for demanding mission-critical workloads and emerging applications. Applications continue to grow in size and scale and, to support them, enterprises are increasingly turning to new server technologies that contain hundreds of processor cores as well as high-performance storage solutions including low-latency NVMe, all-flash arrays (AFAs). NVMe can significantly increase the performance of storage area networks (SANs), making the selection of high-speed networking technology the critical element for achieving maximum system-wide performance. Fibre Channel is purpose-built for storage networks, meeting the requirements for high availability, scalability, predictable performance and low latency. Compared to the previous generation, Emulex Gen 7 FC HBAs offer up to 2x higher bandwidth, 3x better latency, enhanced security, and operational efficiency for 32GFC and 64GFC SANs. Emulex LPe35000-series HBAs are available with single, dual, or quad 32GFC optics that can be upgraded with 64GFC optics to tackle the toughest workloads and future NVMe deployments. Gen 7 32GFC provides seamless backward compatibility to Accelerate Workload 16GFC and 8GFC networks. Performance for NVMe Data Centers Performance Accelerate workloads with up to The Emulex Dynamic Multi-core Architecture delivers unparalleled 3x better latency than the previous performance and the most efficient port utilization with eight processing generation cores and 16 threads that dynamically apply ASIC resources to any port that requires them, ensuring SLAs are met. Compared to Gen 6, Emulex Speed up applications, AFAs, and handle peak workload I/O spikes Gen 7 HBAs can support 64GFC to deliver up to 2x greater bandwidth. The with up to 5M IOPSover 3x more LPe35000 series delivers 12,800 MB/s (two 32GFC ports) or than the previous generation 25,600 MB/s (when upgraded to two 64GFC ports) full duplex, 3x better hardware latency, and supports an industry-leading 5 million IOPS. Get faster data transfer speed with the industrys first PCIe 4.0 HBA The fastpath design provides hardware acceleration for Emulexs Dynamic delivering 2x more bandwidth per Multi-core architecture, reducing latency for each transaction by processing lane I/O requests in hardware, thereby operating significantly faster than Easily Deploy, Manage, software-based solutions. These performance advances enable Emulex Gen 7 HBAs to handle demanding workloads and I/O spikes experienced under and Upgrade SANs peak workload conditions like no other Fibre Channel HBA in the industry. Save time with no server reboots for firmware updates, queue depth Emulex Gen 7 HBAs support NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC), changes, and optics replacements providing significantly lower latency versus traditional Fibre Channel SCSI Protocol (SCSI FCP). Recent testing by independent performance Meet SLAs with industry-leading HBA reliability10M hours MTBF labs has shown that NVMe/FC can deliver up to 50% more IOPs and 30% lower latency than traditional SCSI FCP.* Emulex Gen 7 HBAs also support Easy performance upgrade from NVMe/FC and SCSI FCP concurrently, providing investment protection and 32GFC to 64GFC with hot-plug allowing data centers to transition to end-to-end NVMe over FC SANs at optics kits their own pace. Enable full end-to-end implementa- tion of Brocade Fabric Vision from *Emulex labs/Demartek, 2018. the HBA to the switch Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel HBAsProduct Brief LPe35000-series port aggregation the switch to the server end-points capability (also known as trunking) that have Emulex HBAs installed. provides a method to aggregate Supported features include physical ports together to form a ClearLink (D port), Link Cable Fully Protect Data single logical port. Aggregating Beaconing, Host Name Registration, Thwart malicious firmware with a physical ports to make a single Read Diagnostic Parameters, Silicon Root of Trust and digitally high-bandwidth datapath increases VMID, BB Credit Recovery, signed firmware the logical connection bandwidth Fabric-assigned Boot LUN, Fabric- Complies with NIST 800-193 for applications that need it, such assigned PWWN, FC Trace Route, framework as data warehousing and virtual FC Ping, Rest APIs, and more. Digital signature verification machine migration. during firmware download and Visit www.broadcom.com power-on for additional information on Operational Efficiency supported Fabric Vision features. Guarantee driver security with Broadcom digitally signed drivers LPe35000-series HBAs offer enhanced reliability, availability Secure Boot guarantees UEFI boot Security and serviceability (RAS) including code security with digitally signed One of the key initiatives port isolation and port-based error boot code for enterprises is that their isolation that enables users to easily Data Integrity Field (T10 DIF) pro- infrastructure is safe from network detect, isolate, and recover from tects data from corruption attacks. Fibre Channel has field errors. proven security in protecting Emulex HBAs are easy to manage the worlds most sensitive data and save administrators time and in banking, finance, healthcare, operating costs with features government, and military for such as no reboots for firmware over 20 years. Fibre Channel is updates, queue depth changes, or protected from threats coming optics replacements. Emulex Gen from IP networks because there is 7 hot plug (hot-swappable) optics no direct connectivity for an attack enables optics to be removed and from the IP network. This makes replaced without shutting down the Fibre Channel a very strong link in system, allowing for uninterrupted the security chain. service. Emulex Gen 7 HBAs provide The OneCommand Manager unmatched security features application provides centralized for Fibre Channel environments. management of current and LPe35000-series are the only Fibre previous generations of Emulex FC Channel HBAs with Silicon Root of HBAs. Emulex HBA troubleshooting Trust security embedded into the is simplified with OneCapture, hardware itself. Firmware digital an Emulex utility that gathers signatures are verified each time system, adapter, and device driver the system is booted as well as information. Data collected by before installing any new firmware, OneCapture is compressed into providing a tamper proof solution. a single file and can be sent to Emulexs digitally signed drivers Broadcom Technical Support for are integrated with all the major analysis when debugging system enterprise operating systems. issues or for diagnostic purposes. Drivers are digitally signed and Emulex HBAs fully support the are verified to be authentic code Brocade Fabric Vision suite of written by Broadcom before they features facilitating a solution from can be installed. Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel HBAs