Intel 10GbE Adapter Performance Evaluation for FCoE and iSCSI

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Demartek
Intel
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10GbE Adapter Performance Evaluation
September 2010
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4 – Evaluation Environment
The tests were conducted at the Demartek lab in Arvada, Colorado and the Intel
®
lab in Hillsboro,
Oregon.
Basic functionality tests were performed in the Demartek lab. The performance tests were
performed in the Intel
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lab.
• Demartek lab: Supermicro X8DTH-6F, Dual Intel
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Xeon processor E5540, 2.53 GHz, 5.86
QPI, 48GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
Servers:
• Intel
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lab: Dell PowerEdge R710, Dual Intel
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Xeon processor X5550, 2.67 GHz, 6.40 QPI,
24GB RAM, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.
• Demartek lab: Cisco Nexus 5020, 10GbE, supporting DCB/FCoE with 4Gb FC blade
Switches:
• Intel
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lab: Cisco Nexus 5020, 10GbE, supporting DCB/FCoE with 4Gb FC blade
• Demartek lab: NetApp FAS3040
Storage targets:
• Intel
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lab: NetApp FAS3170, EMC CX4
o NetApp FAS3170: Dual-controller, 4xAMD Opteron processors, 16GB RAM,
four disk shelves populated with 136GB, 15K RPM, FC disk drives for a total of
56 disk drives, 7TB raw capacity. One QLogic QLE8152 dual-port FCoE CNA.
One dual-port 10G Ethernet Controller T320E. Disk storage configures as RAID-
DP groups.
o EMC CX4: Dual-controller, 16GB RAM, four disk shelves populated with
45x133.7GB, 15K RPM FC disk drives and 15x268.4GB, 15K RPM FC disk drives
for a total of 60 disk drives, 10TB raw capacity. 4x4Gb FC host ports. Disk storage
configured as RAID10 groups.