XE201 Datasheet, PDF (1/4 Pages) List of Unclassifed Manufacturers – Advanced data integrity protects against silent data corruption

DATA SHEET
Emulex Engine^™ XE201
I/O Controller
Highly Scalable, Multi-fabric, Comprehensive Management
One Product, One SKU, Multiple I/O Connectivity Options
In a market landscape that has more I/O options to choose from than ever before,
the XE201 PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 I/O controller (IOC) provides best-of-breed Fibre
Channel (FC) connectivity, along with Ethernet and multiple Ethernet-based storage
protocols, providing unique connectivity combinations on a single ASIC.
The XE201 delivers the industry’s first native Gen 5 Fibre Channel (16GFC /8GFC) and
10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) product that enables you to choose a combination of up
to four ports of native Gen 5 8GFC and 16GFC, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE),
iSCSI (software), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), 10GbE and 40GbE for the
ultimate in design flexibility. The XE201 delivers a low-power, single-chip solution
that may be incorporated into industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) expansion
cards, custom format mezzanine cards, special-purpose storage target controllers,
daughter cards or integrated directly into a system motherboard (e.g., LOM).
Breakthrough Scalability Powers More Virtual Machines, More Workload
With its unique eight processor core architecture, the XE201 takes convergence
and scalability to a new level, supporting ever expanding virtualization and cloud
initiatives. The XE201 implements in hardware what was previously designed into
firmware to deliver optimum performance. The controller design took a holistic
system approach with Emulex vEngine™ technology, offloading more I/O onto
the XE201 ASIC, thereby lowering the CPU burden on the host server. In terms of
scalability, the XE201 supports up to 255 Virtual Functions (VFs),* 1024 Message
Signal Interrupts (MSI-X), 8192 concurrent logins and open exchanges for Fibre
Channel and FCoE, and 2048 queue pairs for Ethernet. Emulex vScale™ dynamic
resource pooling enables unmatched workload scalability across protocols.
Key Benefits
n Attain the ultimate in connectivity flexibility
with multi-network protocol options—Fibre
Channel, FCoE, iSCSI (software), RoCE and Ethernet
connectivity
n Achieve extreme application acceleration
performance for Fibre Channel with more than 1.2
million I/O operations per second (IOPS), as well as
dramatic improvements in application response
times, plus MSI-X support, enabling multi-threaded
interrupt support for multi-core servers
n PCIe 3.0 bus interface provides increased
performance to match the capabilities of PCIe 3.0
capable servers
n Unique quad-port density and high-availability
combo configurations
n Advanced data integrity protects against silent data
corruption
n Lower overall capital expenditures (CAPEX) and
operational expenditures (OPEX) costs by 50%
through support of new network convergence
strategies
n Meet slot and board real estate constraints with
feature-rich multi-fabric Fibre Channel and Ethernet
support
n Differentiate in virtualization and cloud markets
with support for leading-edge virtualization
features, such as support for N_Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV), Single Root I/O Virtualization
(SRIOV), VMQ , Netqueue and the ability to assign
quality of service (QoS) at the virtual machine
(VM) level