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White Paper
QLogic 10000 Series Adapter Provides
Application Benefits Through I/O Caching
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Reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the validity and accuracy of these performance tests. QLogic Corporation is not liable for any error in this
published white paper or the results thereof. Variation in results may be a result of change in configuration or in the environment. QLogic specifically
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Table 2. Software Used for Exchange Query
Software
Description
Operating System
Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 R2
I/O Load Generation Tool
Benchmark Factory for Databases
version 6.8
Workload Generator
TPC-E
Database Type
Microsoft SQL Server
Database Size
200GB
Database LUN Size
1,000GB
Log LUN Size
500GB
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
With the introduction of the FabricCache 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel
Adapter, QLogic continues to be the industry leader in delivering high-
performance I/O solutions to the data center and in solving enterprise
customer requirements.
Key performance findings using the QLogic 10000 Series Adapter with
database applications:
•
Performance gains are available to non-clustered applications—up to
7.75 × performance in a single-server configuration.
•
Large performance gains are available for clustered applications—up to
22 × performance in a four-server configuration.
•
The QLogic 10000 Series Adapter enables system performance to scale
with server infrastructure. Storage performance scales with server
compute and memory capacity.
•
The QLogic 10000 Series Adapter provides efficient, remote access
support—less than 10 percent decrease between local configurations
and remote configurations.
Today’s virtualized and distributed workloads across the data center
demand faster I/O access. Existing solutions do not address the added
dimension of multiple servers acting together to run complex business-
critical applications, such as data warehousing, customer relationship
management (CRM), OLTP, enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-mail
servers, Web servers, reporting, analytics, financial trading applications,
and cluster applications: Oracle
®
Real Application Clusters (RAC) and
IBM
®
DB2
®
pureScale
®
. Increased server performance, higher VM
density, advances in network bandwidth, and more demanding business
application workloads create a critical I/O performance imbalance between
servers, networks, and storage subsystems servicing these environments.
The QLogic 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter provides best-in-
class features and an unprecedented level of high performance, superior
scalability, and enhanced reliability. The unique caching solution of the
QLogic 10000 Series Adapter increases the server performance needed to
meet the escalating requirements of enterprise-class users. Performance-
hungry, response-time-sensitive applications demand increased
transactions and decreased response times. By locating application data
closer to the server CPU with the QLogic 10000 Series Adapter, the server
delivers lower latency for improved response times, as well as higher
throughput to feed those hungry servers.
The QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series Fibre Channel Adapter bridges
the transaction-based I/O performance gap and meets application
performance challenges by delivering scalable performance to enterprise
applications.