Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today its Emulex Fibre
Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are the industry’s first-ever HBAs
to provide full support for VMware ESXi 7.0, delivering
high-performing, NVMe over Fibre Channel, for applications running
on ESXi servers. With support from major storage vendors, operating
systems and hypervisors, Broadcom Fibre Channel will provide a
complete, hardened ecosystem— an NVMe industry first.
“We are thrilled that VMware has partnered with Broadcom to
deliver the first and only in-box NVMe over Fibre Channel HBA
solution for ESXi 7.0,” said Jeff Hoogenboom, vice president and
general manager, Emulex Connectivity Division, Broadcom. “VMWare’s
in-box inclusion of Emulex’s HBAs validates that NVMe over Fibre
Channel is ready for enterprise production deployment today and
that the application performance improvements and CPU utilization
benefits of NVMe over Fibre Channel are real and material.”
“VMware is very excited to introduce NVMe over Fabrics based SAN
infrastructure for its data center in broad collaboration with
Broadcom and rest of our storage eco-system partners,” said
Sudhanshu Jain, director of product management, VMware Inc. “NVMe
over Fibre Channel based SAN connectivity in vSphere 7.0 will help
customers to take advantage of performance enhancements, while
leveraging existing SAN infrastructure.”
Improved Performance ESXi 7.0 and Emulex HBAs
deliver stunning performance benefits using NVMe technologies for
virtualized servers on a Fibre Channel SAN. Third-party validated
test results show that compared to today’s Fibre Channel protocol
(FCP), running ESXi 7.0 with Emulex NVMe over Fibre Channel
HBAs:
- improves Oracle Database 19c performance by up to 2.1x1
- improves Microsoft SQL Server 2019 performance by up to 2.4x
2
Complete Ecosystem SupportFibre Channel is the
first transport with complete NVMe over Fabrics eco-system support
in production. From SAN switches by Brocade and Cisco, to storage
arrays from vendors including Dell EMC, IBM, and NetApp, to every
enterprise server vendor—all are shipping NVMe over Fibre Channel
technology today. With VMWare’s ESX 7.0 release, NVMe over
Fibre Channel is ready for production deployments.
“Fibre Channel has been the de facto standard for
high-performance virtualized data centers for more than a decade,”
said Jack Rondoni, senior vice president and general manager,
Brocade Storage Networking division, Broadcom. “Enabling a
next-generation NVMe over Fibre Channel fabric is a seamless and
simple transition that will break through current flash performance
barriers. The combination of an ESXi 7.0 environment with a Brocade
and Emulex NVMe over Fibre Channel fabric will set new standards
for application performance and availability.”
NetApp, VMware, and Broadcom have partnered to bring a robust
and easy to deploy NVMe over Fibre Channel based SAN solution to
enable faster connectivity between storage and servers,
accelerating the performance of existing high-performance
workloads.
“By bringing end-to-end NVMe over Fibre Channel to our
customers, NetApp, alongside Broadcom and our ecosystem partners,
are enabling customers to gain unparalleled performance at
lower latencies, accelerating their return on investment on IT
infrastructure,” said Rajiev Rajavasireddy, vice president, Product
Management for Foundational Data Services, NetApp. “With NVMe
over Fibre Channel support and compatibility across the technology
stack, these modern solutions offer customers the
performance and reliability that they demand in supporting
their mission critical applications.”
“We were impressed with the Emulex HBA IO performance with
VMware ESXi 7.0 server using the new NVMe over Fibre Channel
feature,” said Kevin Tolly, founder of The Tolly Group. “We
validated transactional performance of a virtual machine running
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and saw that it improved by as much as
2.4x when running NVMe over Fibre Channel compared to
traditional Fibre Channel SCSI connectivity.”
Enterprise-class Networking Delivered by Fibre Channel
Networks:Fibre Channel delivers key benefits to enterprise
storage environments including: coexistent support of SCSI FCP and
NVMe over Fibre Channel on the same infrastructure, trusted network
with proven security, full auto-discovery of storage resources,
sequence level error recovery for NVMe over Fabric IOs, and boot
from SAN for NVMe over Fibre Channel device capabilities.
Availability Emulex In-Box NVMe over Fibre
Channel Drivers for ESXi 7.0 are available starting April 2. Click
here to download the release from VMware.
About Broadcom Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:
AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs,
develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and
infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading
product portfolio serves critical markets including data center,
networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and
industrial. Our solutions include data center
networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber
security software focused on automation, monitoring and security,
smartphone components, telecoms and factory
automation. For more information, go
to www.broadcom.com.
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Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
VMware, ESXi and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks
of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
jurisdictions.
Press Contact: Jon Piazza
Corporate Communications press.relations@broadcom.com
Telephone: +1 408 433 7924
1 Tolly Test Report here, document number 220117 forthcoming
late April 2020
2 Tolly Test Report here, document number 220117 forthcoming
late April 2020
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