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Emulex OneConnect™ Universal CNA

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Data Center Customer Challenges

  Reduced Budgets = Need for New Efficiency   Virtualization = I/O Aggregation Bottleneck   Server Consolidation = Cable Congestion   Power & Cooling Costs = Green Demands   DC Space Limits = Convergence Consolidation

Network Connectivity Concerns

Server Consolidation Blades, Virtualization

Network Storage Connectivity Growth

Demand for higher network bandwidth

Environmental Concerns (heat, cooling, space, power)

Increasing Demand for Computing Resources

Operational Efficiency

(reducing CapEX and OpEx)

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OneCommand™ Framework

UCNAs – Drive Data Center Wide Convergence

Local Users Internet

Remote Users

Edge Routers

Routing Switches

1st Level Firewall

Authentication, DNS Intrusion Detect, VPN

Web Cache

Access Tier

Web Tier

Application Tier

Database Tier

Load Balancing Switches

Web Servers

2nd Level Firewall

Switches

Application Servers

Switches

Database SQL Servers

Storage Area Network (SAN) ‏

Files (NAS) ‏

Files (NAS) ‏

HBA

FC

1st Gen CNA

L2 NIC

FCoE

OneConnect Universal CNA

10Gb NIC

FCoE

Blades

iSCSI

RDMA

Virtualization

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OneConnect™ – The Universal CNA

  Operational Efficiency –  One Card, Every Network (10Gbps NIC, iSCSI and FCoE )

–  Simplifies I/O Choices & Optimizes Blade Servers Consolidation –  Investment Protection for existing FC, IP infrastructures

  Convergenomics™ = Data Center Savings –  Up to 28% savings on switches, adapters &

rack space

–  Up to 42% savings on power and cooling

–  Up to 80% savings on cabling

  Emulex VEngine™ – Scalability & Performance for Virtualization –  CPU off-load increases the number of VMs by up to 20%

  Emulex OneCommand™ Unified Management

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Emulex OneConnect Universal CNA Applications

Web Tier

Application Tier

Database Tier

Load Balancing Switches

Web Servers

2nd Level Firewall

Switches

Application Servers

Switches

Database SQL Servers

Storage Area Network (SAN) ‏

Files (NAS) ‏

Files (NAS) ‏

Universal CNA Drives Value Across All Server Tiers!

FC HBA CNA UNIVERSAL

CNA

BACKEND Database Servers

MID-TIER Application

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10GbE Higher Bandwidth

More MB/S & IOPS Per Watt

PCI-Express Optimization

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SR-IOV Technology

Emulex V-Engine Off-Load technology

NIC Driver Overhead Steals CPU Cycle

No ISCSI Offload

Other CNAs With No TOE for NAS

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Emulex Expands VM Scalability

NIC Error Handling

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OneConnect™ Advantages

CPU Offload for all Protocols (TOE, FCoE, iSCSI, RDMA)

Unified Management for HBA and Universal CNA

Proven FC Drivers & Broad Storage Interoperability Support

Industry Leading Performance/Watt

Common Drivers for NIC, iSCSI and FCoE products

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Competitive Comparison

Common NIC drivers for NIC, iSCSI and FCoE products

Emulex Tier 2 NIC Vendors

Leverages Existing FC and NIC Drivers Broad Storage Interoperability Support Unified Storage Management Software Unified NIC, iSCSI, FCoE, FC Management Software CPU Offload for all Protocols High Performance/Watt Support Model Integrated With Storage and Server OEMs

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Competitive Comparison

SR-IOV

Emulex Tier 2 NIC Vendors

iWARP iSCSI Offload NFS, CIFS Offload TCP/IP Offload NIC (stateless offload) FCoE Offload

PROTOCOL OFFLOAD

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