QLogic 8200 Series is the Adapter of Choice for Converged Data Centers - Manual (Page 6)

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Figure 9. Dual Port FCoE Throughput Divided by CPU Percentage
Figure 10. FCoE CPU Utilization
Summary and Conclusion
Consolidation onto a single unified network—Fibre Channel over
ethernet—will reduce physical complexity, lower material costs, and
simplify operations. Ultimately, though, the most important benefit of a
unified network is the gained efficiency in resource utilization. this is
true as networks are consolidated onto a single protocol supporting all
enterprise requirements, along with backward compatibility of each across
existing hardware and management applications. however, if the wrong
Converged Network adapter is chosen to standardize on, efficiency for high
throughput demands of applications, density of virtual servers, and overall
consolidation efforts will fall short.
as leading CiOs and data center managers strive to achieve maximum
efficiency through resource utilization, QLogic delivers high-performance
i/O solutions that minimize CPU resources, allowing efficient scaling of the
entire data center. this is especially important for virtualized environments
that support increasingly powerful applications as well as growing amounts
of data.
QLogic furnishes key infrastructure components with the greatest offload
capabilities to provide high-performance data and storage applications
the i/O bandwidth they require and to ensure that server resources are
available when needed. Data center fabrics based on QLogic technology
will increase enterprise it efficiencies derived from the ability to expand the
number of simultaneous applications or virtualized operating systems that
can be run on a given platform.
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