QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter of Choice in Microsoft Exchange Environments - Manual

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Key Findings
The QLogic ® FabricCache™ 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter enhances transaction and latency performance for
Microsoft Exchange Servers ® by optimizing random read-intensive workloads that are inherent in exchange and e-mail applications.
the QLogic 10000 Series FabricCache technology is implemented as a PCie ® -based intelligent i/O device that provides integrated Fibre
Channel storage network connectivity, flash memory caching, and embedded processing. the 10000 Series technology makes caching
i/O data from exchange transparent to the host.
QLogic’s caching technology* in the QLogic 10000 Series Fibre Channel adapter enhances Microsoft exchange with the following:
• increased transactional iOPS by up to 400 percent
• Decreased exchange i/O read latency by up to 80 percent
• Overall improved performance in the exchange environment
The QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter offers better throughput and IOPS compared to the Emulex ® 8Gb
LightPulse™ Adapter, and in turn supports the additional demand of Microsoft exchange e-mail volume and increasing workloads.
• Driving Microsoft exchange-like i/O loads in an attempt to saturate the adapters showed 133 percent better iOPS while pushing
more than 279 MBps throughput for the QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters versus the emulex 8Gb LightPulse adapter.
• the emulex LPe12000 fails to keep up with increasing exchange workloads as workloads increased past 16 outstanding
i/Os. in addition, the QLogic adapter continued to scale, achieving more than 35 percent better MBps than emulex with
64 outstanding i/Os.
The 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter of Choice
in Microsoft Exchange Environments
QLogic Offers Best Performance and Scalability for Microsoft
Exchange Workloads
*QLogic patent pending, caching technology.