Emulex® LPe36002 Host Bus Adapter, 64G Fibre Channel HBA Performance vs. 32G

Sponsor: Broadcom Inc.

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Document Number: 221123

Publication Date: 5/11/2021

Page Count: 7

Abstract

Data storage and retrieval is growing at an extraordinary pace. Analysts note that data grew world-wide by 4x in recent years and that database data warehousing will double in the next five years. Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can dramatically increase data retrieval rates.

Next-generation Fibre Channel alone and in conjunction with next-generation PCIe 4.0 technology can provide dramatic improvements in application data throughput. Broadcom’s Emulex Gen 7 LPe36002 64G Fibre Channel (64G) dual- port host bus adapter (HBA) leverages both 64G and PCIe 4.0.

Broadcom commissioned Tolly to benchmark the performance of its new adapter in terms of raw performance and compared to existing 32G Fibre Channel (32G) HBAs. The adapter demonstrated dual-port performance in excess of 11 million IOPS. Running relational database transaction benchmarks, the adapter effectively doubled performance by dramatically cutting run times. Similarly, the adapter leveraged PCIe 4.0 technology increasing application throughput to ~12,000MBPS compared to ~6,600MBPS maximum achieved on PCIe 3.0 servers. Testing used the Medusa Labs Test Suite and open-source HammerDB.