Emulex Gen 7 Fibre Channel HBAs

Product Brief

Emulex® Gen 7

Fibre Channel HBAs

LPe35000/LPe36000-Series

Accelerate Workload

Performance for NVMe

Data Centers

• Accelerate workloads with up to

3x better latency than the previous

generation.

• Speed up applications and AFAs

and handle peak workload I/O

spikes with up to 10M IOPS—3x

more than the previous generation.

• Get faster data transfer speed with

the industry’s first single- and

dual-port PCIe 4.0 HBAs delivering

2x more bandwidth per lane.

Easily Deploy, Manage,

and Upgrade SANs

• Save time with no server reboots

for firmware updates, queue depth

changes, and optics replacements.

• Meet SLAs with industry-leading

HBA reliability—10M hours MTBF.

• Upgrade performance easily from

32GFC to 64GFC with Emulex-

approved hot-plug optics kits.

• Utilize the industry-standard

INCITS/T11 specification, which

includes full FPINs and signaling

support to collaborate with the

fabric to identify and address

performance problems.

Next-Gen HBAs for the Modern Data Center

The Emulex® Gen 7 Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) by

Broadcom are designed for demanding mission-critical workloads and

emerging applications. Applications continue to grow in size and scale,

and to support them, enterprises are increasingly turning to new server

technologies that contain hundreds of processor cores as well as high-

performance storage solutions including low-latency NVMe, all-flash arrays

(AFAs). NVMe can significantly increase the performance of storage

area networks (SANs), making the selection of high-speed networking

technology the critical element for achieving maximum system-wide

performance. Fibre Channel is purpose-built for storage networks, meeting

the requirements for high availability, scalability, predictable performance,

and low latency.

Compared to the previous generation, Emulex Gen 7 FC HBAs offer up to

2x higher bandwidth, 3x better latency, enhanced security, and operational

efficiency for 32GFC and 64GFC SANs. Emulex LPe35000-series HBAs are

available with single, dual, or quad 32GFC optics. The single-port and dual-

port models can be upgraded with 64GFC optics to tackle the toughest

workloads, including NVMe deployments. Gen 7 32GFC provides seamless

backward compatibility to 16GFC and 8GFC networks. Emulex LPe36000-

series HBAs are available with single and dual 64GFC optics and provide

seamless backward compatibility to 32GFC and 16GFC networks.

Emulex fully supports new industry standards that further enhance

Broadcom’s autonomous SAN1 innovations to self-learn, self-optimize, and

self-heal, proactively keeping the SAN running at maximum speed and

avoiding downtime. The new industry standards supported by Emulex

around Fabric Performance Impact Notifications (FPINs) include Link

Integrity notification (FPIN-LI), Congestion notification (FPIN-CN), Peer

Congestion notification (FPIN-PN), and Delivery notification (FPIN-DN).

The Emulex SAN Manager application is the first application in the industry

to automatically identify, minimize, and mitigate application performance

problems caused by SAN congestion by utilizing the FPIN-CN standard.

Performance

The Emulex Dynamic Multi-core architecture delivers unparalleled

performance and the most efficient port utilization with 8 processing

cores and 16 threads that dynamically apply ASIC resources to any port

that requires them, ensuring that SLAs are met. Compared to Gen 6

HBAs, Emulex Gen 7 HBAs can support 64GFC to deliver up to 2x greater

bandwidth. The Gen 7 HBAs deliver 12,800 MB/s (two 32GFC ports) or

25,600 MB/s (two 64GFC ports) full duplex, they deliver 3x better hardware

latency, and the 64GFC LPe36000-series HBAs deliver industry-leading

performance up to 10 million IOPS.2

Emulex Gen 7 solutions have achieved this unprecedented performance

by enhancing their Emulex Dynamic Multi-core architecture with fastpath

hardware acceleration, reducing latency for each transaction. This

1

https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/broadcom-autonomous-self-healing-sans

2

Tolly Test Report LPe36000-series, 2021

Emulex LPe35004, LPe35000, and LPe35002