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SN0430935-00 Rev. D 04/14 1

White Paper

QLogic FabricCache Caching Technology

Delivers Scalable Performance to

Enterprise Applications

The QLogic 10000 Series delivers scalable performance to

enterprise applications and reduces the performance gap

between these applications and their storage subsystems.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The growing disparity between the performance of CPU-based and

disk-based storage continues to grow. Applications that are Web 2.0,

mission-critical, I/O intensive, virtualized, and clustered continue to put an

additional burden on processors and slower storage, which lowers overall

application performance. These increased performance demands on the

enterprise data center require application performance improvements

using innovative solutions that can scale across the enterprise

infrastructure.

The QLogic 10000 Series Adapter technology delivers a unique solution

optimized to address the growing performance gap between what the

processor can compute and what the storage I/O subsystem can deliver.

With a simple adapter deployment model, the seamless approach

combines enterprise SAN connectivity with shared server-based I/O

caching. The QLogic 10000 Series Adapter provides dramatic and scalable

performance improvements to the widest range of enterprise applications.

This white paper provides an overview of the application performance

capability of the QLogic 10000 Series Adapter. A query workload from

the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) Benchmark™

E (TPC-E) was used to generate database queries. TPC, an online

transaction processing (OLTP) workload, provides real-world, I/O-

intensive transactions that simulate activities found in complex database

application environments. The QLogic 10000 Series meets the application

performance challenge and accelerates performance across the entire

enterprise.

KEY FINDINGS

The QLogic

FabricCache™ 10000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel

Adapter enhances application performance by optimizing random

read-intensive workloads running in clustered, shared resource

environments. The QLogic 10000 Series technology integrates Fibre

Channel storage network connections, a ash memory interface, and

embedded processing. The technology delivers scalable performance

to enterprise applications and reduces the performance gap between

these applications and their storage subsystems.

QLogic’s caching technology in the 10000 Series Fibre Channel

Adapter delivers:

• Large application acceleration with modest cache congurations:

– In a single-server conguration, the adapter delivers 7.75 × the

performance over having no cache

• Performance that scales directly with the server infrastructure:

– In a multiserver (four or more) conguration, the adapter

delivers up to 22 × the performance over having no cache

• Remotely located cache performance difference of less than 10

percent compared to cache residing locally

QLogic 10000 Series Adapter Provides

Application Benets Through I/O Caching

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Enterprise Applications 1
White Paper 2

Summary of Contents

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SN0430935-00 Rev. D 04/14 3 White PaperQLogic 10000 Series Adapter ProvidesApplication Benets Through I/O CachingFigure 2: Single-Server Query TPS

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