James Morle Oracle large-scale implementation specialist discusses keys to deploying 8Gb Fibre Channel using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Linux 6.2. The presentation will include and overview of the Oracle Architecture, how SAN performance can impact database performance, results of a Scale Abilities study comparing 8GFC to 4GFC HBAs.
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8GFC vs. 4GFC2x throughput33% more IOPS16% faster latencyMore than 2x the vPorts, supports more Virtual Machines4x the exchanges (XRI) to support bigger SANs
-Broad InteroperabilityEmulex has achieved broad market acceptance with over 11 million ports shipped worldwide to date.Emulex HBAs are sold by all the major system and storage OEMS including Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, to name but a few.The HBA product line consists of single, dual, and quad-port 4 and 8Gb/savailable in mezzanine and standard form factors.The LightPulse family of adapters were designed and built for the enterprise from day one, with a common driver model across the product line and a unified management tool,OneCommand Manager, that manages all HBAs and UCNAs in a data center environment.
Enhancing your 4Gb/s infrastructure with 8Gb/s HBAs results inincreased performance as documented in a recent benchmarkby Emulex Labs. This benchmark compared Emulex 4Gb/s HBAswith Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs using the Oracle Orion I/O calibrationtool and the SwingBench load generator to profile an order entryand data warehousing workload. For a complete description ofthis study, go to www.emulex.com.The Emulex LPe12002 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA was comparedto the Emulex LPe11002 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA with storagearrays that only support 4Gb/s port connections. With thesebenchmarks, 8Gb/s HBAs in 4Gb/s environments showed:1. Nearly double data warehousing throughput (Figure 2)2. 15 percent greater IOPS (Figure 3)3. 16 percent improvement in I/O latency (Figure 4)