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WHITE PAPER

Key Findings

• QLogic

8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters and 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapters continue to provide a high availability ASIC architecture

with complete port isolation across its dual-port architecture. During testing, the architecture demonstrated deterministic,

predictable, and scalable performance across both ports.

• The QLogic 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter delivered three times the transactions—double the bandwidth—compared to the

8Gb adapter. In a real-life business analytics type environment (TPC-H), the QLogic 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter completed the same

analytical queries in 35 percent less time.

• The QLogic 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapter delivers double the transaction rate compared to 8Gb Fibre Channel for Oracle

OLTP applications.

QLogic 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel

for Database and Business Analytics

Assessment for Database and Business Analytics

Summary of content (5 pages)

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White Paper QLogic 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel for Database and Business Analytics Assessment for Database and Business Analytics Key Findings •• QLogic® 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters and 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel Adapters continue to provide a high availability ASIC architecture with complete port isolation across its dual-port architecture. During testing, the architecture demonstrated deterministic, predictable, and scalable performance across both ports.
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White Paper Executive Summary Fibre Channel SANs are a key component of most large data center storage environments. Large IT organizations have made huge investments in Fibre Channel storage technology to meet their high availability storage and reliability needs. The FCIA calculates that more than $100 billion has been invested in Fibre Channel technology over the last two decades.
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White Paper Real-World Enterprise Workload Analysis To test the performance of the QLogic 2500 8Gb and QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapters in a real-world environment, QLogic ran a data warehousing (TPC-H) workload, not for the purpose of publishing official benchmark results, using Microsoft® SQL Server® in a Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 environment.
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White Paper QLogic 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel vs. QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel In addition, the deployment of 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel provides the opportunity to reduce the number of cables required within server racks. It can also play a role in consolidating the total number of Fibre Channel Switch ports required in a SAN, because of the increased bandwidth available. One of the key comparisons between 16Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel is the difference in performance.
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White Paper QLogic’s Gen 5 Fibre Channel isolated dual-port designed architecture delivers: The tests found that for the TPC-H workload: •• Moving from QLogic 8Gb to QLogic 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel improves TPC-H performance by up to 82 percent for some queries and increases the overall TPC-H full run by 35 percent.