QLogic 2500 Series FC HBAs Accelerate Application Performance - Manual

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Key Findings
Support for increased workloads, acceleration of application performance, and meeting critical elements of overall SaN performance
is key in the selection and deployment of an 8Gb hBa with the right architecture to scale and support robust databases, mail servers,
and secondary storage.
• Microsoft Exchange seats
– Driving Microsoft exchange-like i/O loads in an attempt to saturate the hBas showed 68 percent higher performance with the
8Gb hBa over the 4Gb hBa.
– the QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb FC hBa provided a 26 percent higher backup performance over the 4Gb hBa with 40 threads
per storage group using Microsoft exchange 2007.
• D2D backup
– Using NetBackup 6.5, there was a 100 percent higher backup performance with the 8Gb hBa over the 4Gb hBa.
– Using NetBackup 6.5, it took half the time (50 percent) to backup 14GB of data using the 8Gb hBa versus the 4Gb hBa.
• Oracle Applications
– Using best-in-class Oracle and intel ® Stoakley Quad Core system, the 8Gb hBa was up to 90 percent faster than the 4Gb hBa
testing Online transaction Processing (OLtP) with random and small 100 percent reads.
– When testing the Data Warehousing application workloads, the 8Gb hBa was up to 102 percent faster than the 4Gb hBa.
QLogic 2500 Series FC HBAs
Accelerate Application Performance
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