Most medium and large sized IT organizations have deployed several generation of virtualized servers, becoming more comfortable with the performance and reliability with each deployment. As IT organizations started to increase VM density, they hit the limits of Hyper-V software and server memory, CPU, and I/O.
A new VM Engine is now available and this documents describes how it can help IT organizations maximize use of their servers running Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012.
VMmark virtualization performance of Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SANPrincipled Technologies
The storage you use for your virtualization solution can be a significant factor in its performance and effectiveness. Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, paired with Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN, ran 10 VMmark tiles for a total of 80 running VMs and achieved a score of 12.05@10 tiles, making it the top score running VMware ESXi 5.5 of the 32-core server configurations. For enterprises that need excellent virtualization performance, this makes Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN a wise investment.
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $96,236 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Microsoft SQL Server in a virtualized scenario – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
Competitive advantages-of-windows-server-hyper-v-over-v mware-v-sphereMotty Ben Atia
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides significant scalability, performance, and density advantages over VMware vSphere 5.1. Key advantages include support for up to 64 virtual processors and 1TB of memory per virtual machine, 320 logical processors per host, and 1,024 active virtual machines per host. It also supports larger cluster sizes of up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines per cluster. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V also has enhanced storage capabilities like support for virtual fiber channel, 4KB disk sectors, and larger 64TB virtual disk sizes.
Dell PowerEdge R920 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Migration and Benefits GuidePrincipled Technologies
The latest Dell PowerEdge R920 server is designed to provide highly scalable performance for large enterprises, with greater memory capacity, improved and expanded attached storage options, and processor architectures designed for high availability. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the perfect companion software to take advantage of the Dell PowerEdge R920’s impressive specifications. Upgrading has never looked more attractive, and with hardware/software upgrades must come data migration.
Migrating legacy database applications to the latest database technologies on newer Dell server platforms is a common task for businesses upgrading their hardware/software stack. As this guide shows, the process is straightforward and the cost benefits can be enormous. We calculated the savings attainable from multiple consolidation ratios, as well as how long it would take to pay off the replacement server. We found that a consolidation ratio of 13 to 1 could yield $531,725 in software savings, many times the cost of the replacement hardware itself. So not only will the business benefit from the massively-scalable current-generation Dell server technology paired with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 running SQL Server 2014, but you can save money in the process.
The switching method you choose for your SBC environment can help determine performance and the experience that end-users have. We found that unifying switching with Cisco VM-FEX resulted in up to 29 percent lower latency than a solution using a traditional vSwitch when running a Citrix XenApp hosted shared desktop farm. Furthermore, the Cisco VM-FEX solution used up to 53 percent less CPU than the vSwitch solution did under extreme network conditions. In addition to these performance advantages, Cisco UCS Manager provides a central point of management and a simplified method to add vSphere hosts to the VM-FEX-enabled vSwitch, which can reduce management time and costs.
As our results show, switching to Cisco VM-FEX can provide your users with a more responsive environment.
This document discusses virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V, a new technology in Windows Server 2012 that allows direct access to Fibre Channel shared storage by multiple guest virtual machines. It simplifies connectivity between Fibre Channel SAN storage and Hyper-V applications, offering unprecedented levels of availability, scalability, and operational efficiency for virtualized workloads and cloud architectures when combined with Brocade's Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure. Key capabilities enabled include distributed workload clustering across shared storage, live migration of virtual machines without storage connectivity disruption using dual World Wide Names, and leveraging multipath I/O functionality for continuous storage connectivity.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
The document describes testing of two Dell PowerEdge servers' ability to support graphics-accelerated virtual desktops. A Dell PowerEdge R740xd server with 3 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs supported 96 virtual desktops, 50% more than a Dell PowerEdge R730 server with 2 GPUs which supported 64 desktops. Both servers maintained below 80% CPU utilization. The R740xd's ability to support more desktops in the same rack space allows more efficient use of datacenter resources.
VMmark virtualization performance of Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SANPrincipled Technologies
The storage you use for your virtualization solution can be a significant factor in its performance and effectiveness. Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers, paired with Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN, ran 10 VMmark tiles for a total of 80 running VMs and achieved a score of 12.05@10 tiles, making it the top score running VMware ESXi 5.5 of the 32-core server configurations. For enterprises that need excellent virtualization performance, this makes Micron Enterprise PCIe SSD-based SAN a wise investment.
Minimizing licensing costs for enterprise applications is vital to organizations looking to keep costs down. When your applications use per-core licensing, choosing higher-performance servers with fewer cores dramatically reduces your software-related spending. The Dell PowerEdge M820 blade solution with Compellent storage could deliver up to $96,236 in savings as compared to a single HP ProLiant BL680c G7 solution, and if consolidating multiple workloads, could deliver even more savings in licensing costs when running Microsoft SQL Server in a virtualized scenario – all while maintaining or exceeding previous performance levels.
Competitive advantages-of-windows-server-hyper-v-over-v mware-v-sphereMotty Ben Atia
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides significant scalability, performance, and density advantages over VMware vSphere 5.1. Key advantages include support for up to 64 virtual processors and 1TB of memory per virtual machine, 320 logical processors per host, and 1,024 active virtual machines per host. It also supports larger cluster sizes of up to 64 nodes and 8,000 virtual machines per cluster. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V also has enhanced storage capabilities like support for virtual fiber channel, 4KB disk sectors, and larger 64TB virtual disk sizes.
Dell PowerEdge R920 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Migration and Benefits GuidePrincipled Technologies
The latest Dell PowerEdge R920 server is designed to provide highly scalable performance for large enterprises, with greater memory capacity, improved and expanded attached storage options, and processor architectures designed for high availability. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the perfect companion software to take advantage of the Dell PowerEdge R920’s impressive specifications. Upgrading has never looked more attractive, and with hardware/software upgrades must come data migration.
Migrating legacy database applications to the latest database technologies on newer Dell server platforms is a common task for businesses upgrading their hardware/software stack. As this guide shows, the process is straightforward and the cost benefits can be enormous. We calculated the savings attainable from multiple consolidation ratios, as well as how long it would take to pay off the replacement server. We found that a consolidation ratio of 13 to 1 could yield $531,725 in software savings, many times the cost of the replacement hardware itself. So not only will the business benefit from the massively-scalable current-generation Dell server technology paired with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 running SQL Server 2014, but you can save money in the process.
The switching method you choose for your SBC environment can help determine performance and the experience that end-users have. We found that unifying switching with Cisco VM-FEX resulted in up to 29 percent lower latency than a solution using a traditional vSwitch when running a Citrix XenApp hosted shared desktop farm. Furthermore, the Cisco VM-FEX solution used up to 53 percent less CPU than the vSwitch solution did under extreme network conditions. In addition to these performance advantages, Cisco UCS Manager provides a central point of management and a simplified method to add vSphere hosts to the VM-FEX-enabled vSwitch, which can reduce management time and costs.
As our results show, switching to Cisco VM-FEX can provide your users with a more responsive environment.
This document discusses virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V, a new technology in Windows Server 2012 that allows direct access to Fibre Channel shared storage by multiple guest virtual machines. It simplifies connectivity between Fibre Channel SAN storage and Hyper-V applications, offering unprecedented levels of availability, scalability, and operational efficiency for virtualized workloads and cloud architectures when combined with Brocade's Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure. Key capabilities enabled include distributed workload clustering across shared storage, live migration of virtual machines without storage connectivity disruption using dual World Wide Names, and leveraging multipath I/O functionality for continuous storage connectivity.
Resource balancing comparison: VMware vSphere 6 vs. Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...Principled Technologies
Having ample resources to handle user requests is a necessity of modern virtualization solutions. Allocating and distributing those resources evenly, however, is imperative to the success of your business’s virtualized environment. In our tests, after powering on the other two servers in our three-node cluster and adding resource management features, VMware vSphere 6 improved performance by 183 percent over its baseline configuration of one active server and no resource management features. RHEV 3.5, in contrast, delivered only a 79 percent increase over its baseline. As you design your business’s infrastructure and applications, improvements such as those offered by VMware vSphere 6 DRS and Storage DRS can play a critical role by offering your users better application experiences. Optimized and modern resource management provided by VMware DRS can also help to lower your IT purchase and maintenance costs by reducing the number of servers necessary to run your applications.
The document describes testing of two Dell PowerEdge servers' ability to support graphics-accelerated virtual desktops. A Dell PowerEdge R740xd server with 3 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs supported 96 virtual desktops, 50% more than a Dell PowerEdge R730 server with 2 GPUs which supported 64 desktops. Both servers maintained below 80% CPU utilization. The R740xd's ability to support more desktops in the same rack space allows more efficient use of datacenter resources.
Blade Server I/O and Workloads of the Future (report)IT Brand Pulse
At the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 inflection point, this technology brief looks at how the latest Cisco UCS and HP BladeSystem blade servers match-up to workloads of the future.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a five-year-old legacy server and traditional SAN by offering twice as many VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $167.89 per user in hardware costs.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Setting up a failover cluster on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series servers, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. By setting up a failover cluster on your compact Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can maximize server uptime to keep your business moving.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX with one Dell PowerEdge M...Principled Technologies
Keeping a legacy disparate hardware solution composed of nine older servers instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3 family may cost more than one would expect. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could do the work of nine legacy servers running email, database, and file/print server workloads. The VRTX ran all nine workloads in VMs, achieving a slight performance boost on the database and file/print workloads while using much less datacenter space and reducing power consumption by 38.4 percent.
The VRTX achieved these savings using 88.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices.
Despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could actually lower the total cost of ownership over five years by as much as 48.5 percent, delivering a solid return on investment in less than two years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family could provide a compact solution to optimize application performance and reduce complexity at a lower lifetime cost than a legacy solution composed of nine older servers.
SQL Server 2016 database performance on the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 QLogic 1...Principled Technologies
Upgrading the hardware running your SQL Server to a space-efficient modular Dell EMC modern environment can help your company achieve a great deal of database work in a small amount of space. With the Dell Express Flash technology, adding a caching solution such as Samsung AutoCache can make the environment even more efficient.
In the PT labs, we ran a mixed database workload on six Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 servers, powered by Intel Xeon E5-2667 processors, in three PowerEdge FX2 enclosures. The solution included the QLogic QLE2692 16Gb FC adapter with StorFusion Technology, Dell EMC Storage SC9000 all-flash storage, and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe Performance PCIe SSDs.
With no caching solution, the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs on the six servers achieved a total of 431,839 orders per minute while an Oracle workload ran on 12 VMs. When we added a caching solution to accelerate the SQL database volumes, the performance across the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs doubled to 871,580. These numbers show the power of server-side caching to alleviate pressure on the storage array allowing you to get even more out of the Dell EMC modern environment.
Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the Del...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a 41.3% faster response time than an HPE Synergy solution
Migrate VMs faster with a new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution - Infographic Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a report about the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution. It states that the PowerEdge MX solution is designed for kinetic infrastructure, allowing servers and storage to be swapped out flexibly as needs change. It can also scale from one to ten chassis quickly and easily. Testing showed the PowerEdge MX solution evacuated VMs up to 42.3% faster and achieved up to 73.0% lower latency and 1.7X more throughput than competing HPE and Cisco solutions.
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database: Benefits of upgrading with NVMe ...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R920 provides strong performance in its base configuration with 24 SAS hard disks, but this performance gets an enormous boost when running the configuration containing NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs. In our testing, the upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R920 delivered 14.9 times the database performance of the base configuration. In addition, in testing the raw I/O throughput of the NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs, we saw as much as 192.8 times the IOPS as compared to the base configuration. Given that the storage subsystem is critical in servers and specifically database applications, the performance improvements offered by NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs can lead to great service improvements for your customers, making this upgrade a very wise investment.
Consolidate and upgrade: Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Microsoft SQL Server 2014Principled Technologies
Your growing business shouldn’t run on aging hardware and software until it fails. Adding memory and upgrading processors will not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge VRTX running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while adding features such as high availability.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge VRTX can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge VRTX and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $16,390 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers and upgrading existing storage infrastructure. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
This document summarizes test results of deploying virtual Windows 7 desktops using Citrix XenDesktop 4, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Intel Xeon processors. Key findings include:
- A server with an Intel Xeon 7500 series processor supported 239 virtual desktops, a new density record.
- Servers with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors saw a 30% decrease in processor utilization compared to Xeon 5500 series for the same workload.
- One configuration supported 671 virtual desktops using either a Xeon 5600 or 7500 series processor based server.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
Managing clients with Dell Client Integration Pack 3.0 and Microsoft System C...Principled Technologies
Client management is an important part of any enterprise. Employees have workstations in their offices or notebooks that travel with them around the globe, and efficient updates and remote management capabilities keep an organization’s IT assets ordered and secure. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 can provide a robust, efficient, management system for your IT infrastructure. Selecting clients that not only operate within your IT framework, but that have built-in software to integrate with it seamlessly to make client management tasks even easier is an intelligent strategy for your IT department.
In our tests, we found that Dell client management tools (Dell Client Integration Pack, Dell Client Configuration Toolkit, and Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation) integrated in a typical SCCM 2012 environment reduced the steps it took to complete client management tasks by as much as 77 percent, and included a number of features that weren’t available with clients from HP and Lenovo.
High performance sql server workloads on hyper vManuel Castro
This document describes testing of SQL Server workloads on Hyper-V virtualization. It found that Hyper-V provided close to native performance for OLTP and Analysis Services workloads. It demonstrated Hyper-V can scale to run complex SQL Server workloads on commodity servers supporting hardware virtualization. The document also showed how Hyper-V optimized performance when using advanced processor technologies like SLAT. System Center products provide effective management of SQL Server workloads on Hyper-V virtual machines.
Harness Enterprise Data with SQL Server 2008 R2 and New Intel Xeon ProcessorsReadWriteEnterprise
The document discusses how SQL Server 2008 R2 and new Intel Xeon processors can help enterprises harness large volumes of data. It describes innovations in SQL Server 2008 R2 like self-service BI and complex event processing. It also outlines developments in Intel Xeon processors 7500 and 5600 series that improve scalability, performance, virtualization, and reliability. The combination of these software and hardware advances provides massive processing power, flexibility, and lower costs to help organizations address challenges of rapidly growing and complex enterprise data.
The document compares the performance of migrating virtual machines between chassis using VMware vMotion on three modular server solutions: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, HPE Synergy, and Cisco UCS. Testing showed the Dell EMC solution moved VMs between chassis up to 42.3% faster than the other solutions, with throughput up to 1.7x higher and latency up to 73.0% lower. This allows maintenance to be completed more quickly and with less impact on workloads.
The document discusses the benefits of using the new 2010 Intel Core vPro processors and Microsoft Office 2010 together for business PCs. It notes that these products provide improved performance and security features that allow businesses to better support mobile workforces, comply with regulations, and remotely manage devices. Using these solutions can help IT organizations tackle challenges around deployment, data access, and keeping PCs secure and up to date.
The document describes the key specifications of a modern Formula One race car. It is a single-seater open-cockpit car with a V8 engine mounted behind the driver. It has lightweight carbon fiber body construction, produces over 1750 kW of heat dissipated through radiators, and can brake from 100 to 0 km/h within 15 meters. Aerodynamic wings and drag reduction systems are adjustable to control air flow and reduce drag during races.
Blade Server I/O and Workloads of the Future (report)IT Brand Pulse
At the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 inflection point, this technology brief looks at how the latest Cisco UCS and HP BladeSystem blade servers match-up to workloads of the future.
VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 servers with VMware ...Principled Technologies
Replacing your legacy VDI servers with a new Intel Xeon processor E5-2670 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a great boon for your enterprise.
In the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, this space-efficient, affordable solution outperformed a five-year-old legacy server and traditional SAN by offering twice as many VDI users. Additionally, it achieved greater performance while using 91 percent less space and at a cost of only $167.89 per user in hardware costs.
By supporting more users, saving space, and its affordability, an upgrade to the Intel-powered Dell PowerEdge FX2 solution using VMware Virtual SAN can be a wise move when replacing your aging, older infrastructure.
Setting up a failover cluster on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a straightforward process. In very little time, you can deploy Dell PowerEdge VRTX with up to four M-series servers, switches, and storage in a redundant configuration using Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. By setting up a failover cluster on your compact Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can maximize server uptime to keep your business moving.
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX with one Dell PowerEdge M...Principled Technologies
Keeping a legacy disparate hardware solution composed of nine older servers instead of choosing the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3 family may cost more than one would expect. We found that the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could do the work of nine legacy servers running email, database, and file/print server workloads. The VRTX ran all nine workloads in VMs, achieving a slight performance boost on the database and file/print workloads while using much less datacenter space and reducing power consumption by 38.4 percent.
The VRTX achieved these savings using 88.6 percent less rack-equivalent space than the legacy disparate hardware solution and with one-third as many cables, to reduce complexity and reduce the burden of space in small offices.
Despite a larger initial investment, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with an Intel Xeon processor E5-4650 v3-powered Dell PowerEdge M830 server could actually lower the total cost of ownership over five years by as much as 48.5 percent, delivering a solid return on investment in less than two years.
As our test results show, investing in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family could provide a compact solution to optimize application performance and reduce complexity at a lower lifetime cost than a legacy solution composed of nine older servers.
SQL Server 2016 database performance on the Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 QLogic 1...Principled Technologies
Upgrading the hardware running your SQL Server to a space-efficient modular Dell EMC modern environment can help your company achieve a great deal of database work in a small amount of space. With the Dell Express Flash technology, adding a caching solution such as Samsung AutoCache can make the environment even more efficient.
In the PT labs, we ran a mixed database workload on six Dell EMC PowerEdge FC630 servers, powered by Intel Xeon E5-2667 processors, in three PowerEdge FX2 enclosures. The solution included the QLogic QLE2692 16Gb FC adapter with StorFusion Technology, Dell EMC Storage SC9000 all-flash storage, and Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe Performance PCIe SSDs.
With no caching solution, the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs on the six servers achieved a total of 431,839 orders per minute while an Oracle workload ran on 12 VMs. When we added a caching solution to accelerate the SQL database volumes, the performance across the 36 SQL Server 2016 VMs doubled to 871,580. These numbers show the power of server-side caching to alleviate pressure on the storage array allowing you to get even more out of the Dell EMC modern environment.
Ensure greater uptime and boost VMware vSAN cluster performance with the Del...Principled Technologies
The Dell EMC PowerEdge MX with VMware vSAN Ready Nodes delivered a 55.9% faster response time than a Cisco UCS solution and a 41.3% faster response time than an HPE Synergy solution
Migrate VMs faster with a new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution - Infographic Principled Technologies
The document summarizes a report about the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX solution. It states that the PowerEdge MX solution is designed for kinetic infrastructure, allowing servers and storage to be swapped out flexibly as needs change. It can also scale from one to ten chassis quickly and easily. Testing showed the PowerEdge MX solution evacuated VMs up to 42.3% faster and achieved up to 73.0% lower latency and 1.7X more throughput than competing HPE and Cisco solutions.
Business-critical applications on VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and V...Principled Technologies
The document summarizes performance testing of VMware vSphere 6, VMware Virtual SAN, and VMware NSX running business-critical applications. In single-site testing, the solution delivered over 189,000 IOPS and 5ms average read latency under heavy workload. In two-site testing, it live migrated all VMs between sites in under 9 minutes with no downtime or performance degradation for applications. The software-defined datacenter solution provided reliable performance and business continuity for critical workloads.
Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database: Benefits of upgrading with NVMe ...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R920 provides strong performance in its base configuration with 24 SAS hard disks, but this performance gets an enormous boost when running the configuration containing NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs. In our testing, the upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R920 delivered 14.9 times the database performance of the base configuration. In addition, in testing the raw I/O throughput of the NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs, we saw as much as 192.8 times the IOPS as compared to the base configuration. Given that the storage subsystem is critical in servers and specifically database applications, the performance improvements offered by NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs can lead to great service improvements for your customers, making this upgrade a very wise investment.
Consolidate and upgrade: Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Microsoft SQL Server 2014Principled Technologies
Your growing business shouldn’t run on aging hardware and software until it fails. Adding memory and upgrading processors will not provide the same benefits to your infrastructure as a consolidation and upgrade can. Upgrading and consolidating your IT infrastructure to the Dell PowerEdge VRTX running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 can improve performance while adding features such as high availability.
Based on our findings, a single Dell PowerEdge VRTX can replace four four-year-old dual-socket servers with VMs running heavy SQL database workloads. We found that consolidating four older servers onto a Dell PowerEdge VRTX and upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save up to $16,390 over three years, compared to keeping the four-year-old dual-socket servers and upgrading existing storage infrastructure. If your business runs older versions of Microsoft SQL Server on end-of-life dual-socket servers, the Dell PowerEdge VRTX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and SQL Server 2014 could save your company these costs while delivering better performance than the aging hardware and software.
This document summarizes test results of deploying virtual Windows 7 desktops using Citrix XenDesktop 4, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Intel Xeon processors. Key findings include:
- A server with an Intel Xeon 7500 series processor supported 239 virtual desktops, a new density record.
- Servers with Intel Xeon 5600 series processors saw a 30% decrease in processor utilization compared to Xeon 5500 series for the same workload.
- One configuration supported 671 virtual desktops using either a Xeon 5600 or 7500 series processor based server.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
Managing clients with Dell Client Integration Pack 3.0 and Microsoft System C...Principled Technologies
Client management is an important part of any enterprise. Employees have workstations in their offices or notebooks that travel with them around the globe, and efficient updates and remote management capabilities keep an organization’s IT assets ordered and secure. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 can provide a robust, efficient, management system for your IT infrastructure. Selecting clients that not only operate within your IT framework, but that have built-in software to integrate with it seamlessly to make client management tasks even easier is an intelligent strategy for your IT department.
In our tests, we found that Dell client management tools (Dell Client Integration Pack, Dell Client Configuration Toolkit, and Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation) integrated in a typical SCCM 2012 environment reduced the steps it took to complete client management tasks by as much as 77 percent, and included a number of features that weren’t available with clients from HP and Lenovo.
High performance sql server workloads on hyper vManuel Castro
This document describes testing of SQL Server workloads on Hyper-V virtualization. It found that Hyper-V provided close to native performance for OLTP and Analysis Services workloads. It demonstrated Hyper-V can scale to run complex SQL Server workloads on commodity servers supporting hardware virtualization. The document also showed how Hyper-V optimized performance when using advanced processor technologies like SLAT. System Center products provide effective management of SQL Server workloads on Hyper-V virtual machines.
Harness Enterprise Data with SQL Server 2008 R2 and New Intel Xeon ProcessorsReadWriteEnterprise
The document discusses how SQL Server 2008 R2 and new Intel Xeon processors can help enterprises harness large volumes of data. It describes innovations in SQL Server 2008 R2 like self-service BI and complex event processing. It also outlines developments in Intel Xeon processors 7500 and 5600 series that improve scalability, performance, virtualization, and reliability. The combination of these software and hardware advances provides massive processing power, flexibility, and lower costs to help organizations address challenges of rapidly growing and complex enterprise data.
The document compares the performance of migrating virtual machines between chassis using VMware vMotion on three modular server solutions: Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, HPE Synergy, and Cisco UCS. Testing showed the Dell EMC solution moved VMs between chassis up to 42.3% faster than the other solutions, with throughput up to 1.7x higher and latency up to 73.0% lower. This allows maintenance to be completed more quickly and with less impact on workloads.
The document discusses the benefits of using the new 2010 Intel Core vPro processors and Microsoft Office 2010 together for business PCs. It notes that these products provide improved performance and security features that allow businesses to better support mobile workforces, comply with regulations, and remotely manage devices. Using these solutions can help IT organizations tackle challenges around deployment, data access, and keeping PCs secure and up to date.
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Harnessing the Power of Hyper-V Engine
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Most medium and large sized IT organizations have deployed several generation of virtualized servers, becoming more comfortable with the performance and reliability with each deployment. As IT organizations started to increase VM density, they hit the limits of Hyper-V software and server memory, CPU, and I/O.
A new VM Engine is now available and this documents describes how it can help IT organizations maximize use of their servers running Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012.
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Racing Exhaust Systems: 16Gb FC, 10GbE & Converged Networking………..………….…..…..8
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Accelerating App Performance………………………………..……………………………………………...…16
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Harnessing the Power
In a survey conducted by IT Brand, IT professionals said the average number of VMs per server would almost double in the next 24 months.
VMs Per Server
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Best Practices in Hyper-V
No hardware resource is more important to overall performance than memory. Plan to ensure each VM has the memory it needs, but without wasting memory in the process.
Memory
Start with Planning
When planning a Hyper-V installation, it is important to take into account the new capabilities of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. Windows Server 2012 has added significantly to the scalability of Hyper-V. For datacenters virtualizing Tier-1 applications, the critical scalability enhancement is the ability to have up to 1TB of memory and 64 virtual CPU cores per VM. This will ensure almost all Tier-1 applications should perform well in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
However, these new capabilities bring new complexities, and with them the need to plan new datacenter architectures. This not only includes planning the deployment for today’s needs, but also thoroughly investigating evolution strategies for applications before bolting down racks and filling them with servers.
Planning which applications are going to run on your virtualized servers is the first step in understanding your needs.
From there, it is critical to define server integration points with existing resources (likely core switching and storage resources), and how these will be affected by the evolution of existing resources.
After that, planning your approach to Live Migration and capacity growth over the lifetime of your new infrastructure will help you scope internal I/O requirements appropriately.
Finally, determining whether to utilize converged networks or not, and what I/O performance you need, will enable you to intelligently discuss your I/O and networking options with your SAN/LAN equipment providers. These steps will help you ensure success when virtualizing your Tier-1 applications.
To fully optimize virtualized data centers, servers need maximum I/O capacity to support high input output operation rates and high bandwidth applications. Increased bandwidth is also needed for server virtualization, which aggregates I/O from multiple virtual machines (VMs) to the host’s data path. This next- generation combination takes full advantage of new features that are described in detail in this planning guide. Read on to discover how QLogic can increase your infrastructure ROI and overall competitiveness.
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The Great VM Migration
With many server admins working on their 3rd and 4th generation of virtualized servers, the focus has changed from interoperability and learning the behavior of Hyper-V, to increasing VM density (#VMs/Physical Host Server). With the availability of servers based on Intel’s E5 processors (multi-core, 768GB of RAM, PCI Express Gen3) and the combination of new features within Hyper-V, a new, game-changing compute platform was introduced. This new platform allows for new levels of VM density and for the first time Tier-1 applications that previously required dedicated server hardware can now run on virtual servers, achieving improved performance, scalability and efficiency.
While Hyper-V and E5-based servers are seeing significant deployments in many enterprise datacenters, the I/O and network infrastructure to support these new technologies lags far behind. In a survey conducted by IT Brand Pulse, IT professionals said the average number of VMs per server would almost double in the next 24 months. Approximately 25% of IT professionals surveyed also said what they need most to increase the VM density is more I/O bandwidth. The purpose of this industry brief is to provide a planning guide to help enterprises deploy Tier-1 applications with adequate bandwidth in a dense Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 virtualization environment.
Power Needed for more VMs
Approximately 25% of IT professionals surveyed said what they need most to increase the density of VMs per server is more I/O bandwidth.
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The average number of VMs per server in my environment:
What I need most to increase the density of VMs per physical servers is more:
IT Brand Pulse
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A New VM Engine
2 more cores, 8MB more of cache, 6 more DIMMs of faster DDR3- 1600 memory increasing to 768GB, double the I/O bandwidth with PCIe 3.0, and more Intel QuickPath links between processors.
Xeon E5
Xeon E5 offers double the I/O bandwidth to 10GbE NICs, 10GbE/16Gb FC CNAs and 16Gb FC HBAs.
The Intel Xeon E5 Platform
The introduction of the Intel® Xeon® E5 family of processors responds to the call for more virtual server re- sources with 2 more cores, 8MB more of cache, 6 more DIMMs of faster DDR3-1600 memory. Increasing the total to 8 cores, 768GB of RAM, and doubling the I/O bandwidth with PCIe 3.0.
Intel’s new Xeon E5 promises a significant increase in server I/O by enabling full- bandwidth, four-port 10GbE server adapters as well as dual-port 16Gb FC server adapter support, addressing the VM density issue with a substantial increase in I/O bandwidth that host servers require.
Intel Xeon E5 Platform
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
The newest release of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V delivers a high-performance VM chassis harnessing the new I/O capabilities of 16Gb Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Networking and 10GbE Data Networking. Several new features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V are highlighted below:
vCPU—Virtual machines can now have up to 64 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and 1TB of virtual RAM (vRAM) allowing Tier- 1 application to be virtualized and new levels of VM density to be reached.
Virtual Fibre Channel (Virtual FC)—Hyper-V now enables VM workloads to access FC SANs by provisioning virtual FC ports with a standard Worldwide Name (WWN) within the guest OS.
Live Migration—Virtual FC also enables Live Migration of VMs across Hyper-V hosts while maintaining FC connectivity. Two WWNs are configured and maintained for each virtual FC adapter.
Live Storage Migration—A VM’s Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX) storage can now be migrated without shutting down the VM. The operation copies data from source storage device to a target via a FC or similar interconnect.
Multipath I/O (MPIO)— Hyper-V now extends MPIO capability to VMs ensuring fault-tolerant FC connectivity for delivering High Availability and Resiliency to virtualized workloads
16Gb Fibre Channel—To help maximize efficiency of Live Migration and Storage Motion, Hyper-V includes support for 16Gb Fibre Channel, the fastest storage interconnect available today.
10GbE and SR-IOV— Allows 10GbE NIC to appear as multiple virtual devices that can optimize I/O performance by providing direct I/O for individual virtual machines.
From a storage planning perspective, when comparing Windows Server 2012 to previous version, there are two specifications which stand-out: the amount of memory/VM (1TB), and the amount of active VMs per machine (1,024).
Using today’s storage usage, a petabyte of storage could be needed to support 1024 VMs. While this scenario is unlikely for at least a few years, running 100 VMs with 512GB of virtual memory each on a single server (which would require 52TB of storage for the memory contents alone) is very foreseeable.
The ability to provide high-performance storage is critical for a high-density or Tier-1 virtualization strategy. The new storage tools in Hyper-V that we will cover later in this paper (virtual Fibre Channel, offloaded data transfer, and the new virtual hard disk format) can positively impact performance in these environments.
A New VM Chassis
In Hyper-V, Virtual Fibre Channel SAN connectivity on a per VM basis.
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Picking the Right I/O Pieces, and Making Them Work Together
Tier-1 applications are uniquely demanding in many dimensions. Their needs with respect to CPU power, memory footprint, high availability/failover, resiliency and responsiveness to outside stimuli is typically unmatched within the enterprise. Moreover, Tier-1 applications also tend to be tightly integrated with other applications and resources within the enterprise. Because of this, virtualizing a Tier-1 application requires rigorous planning of the I/O strategy. There are five steps to this:
Identify the I/O fabrics that the Tier-1 applications will use (it may very well be “all of them”).
Quantify the data flows for each fabric when the application was operating on a standalone system.
Estimate Live Migration I/O needs for failovers and evolution. Note that most Live Migration traffic will be storage I/O; if the data stays within one external array during the Live Migration, Microsoft’s ODX capability can significantly reduce the I/O traffic.
Determine your primary and secondary I/O paths for multi-pathing on all of your networks.
Determine QoS levels for the Tier-1 apps.
One simplifying option available is to utilize converged networking adapters that can function on both FC and Ethernet/ FCoE networks. The QLogic QLE2672 is an example of such an adapter; it can be reconfigured in the field to operate on 16Gb FC or 10Gb FCoE/ Ethernet networks.
Virtualized I/O
Business Critical Applications such as ERP, CRM, eCommerce and Email need high-performance and high availability I/O infrastructure to meet business SLAs.
Tier-1 Apps
Networking Considerations When Virtualizing Tier-1 Applications
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QLogic Server Adapters
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Xeon E5 streamline the process of moving VMs and their associated storage with Live Migration and Live Storage Migration and support low-latency networking traffic with SR- IOV. Moving terabytes of data across the virtual machines and migration virtual servers requires low-latency, high performance I/O adapters. QLogic offers a family of server adapters for 16Gb Fibre Channel , 10GbE or converged network connectivity provide the bandwidth for increased Virtual Machine (VM) scalability and to power Tier-1 application workloads.
Racing Exhaust Systems
The latest generation of CNAs from QLogic support Ethernet LANs, NAS, iSCSI SANs and FCoE SANs, as well as native Fibre Channel SANs
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Highest performance Fibre Channel SAN connectivity for storage intensive applications
Consolidate multiple 1GbE server connections to LAN and NAS on one high-speed Ethernet wire
Consolidate server connections to LAN and SAN on one Ethernet wire
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The size of a dynamically expanding VHD is as large as the data that is written to it. As more data is written to a dynamically expanding VHD, the file increases to a maximum size. A differencing VHD is similar to a dynamically expanding VHD, but it contains only the modified disk blocks of the associated parent VHD. Dynamically expanding VHDs are useful for testing environments because there is less impact if you have to rebuild the VHD. For example, some of the tests performed for this report used multiple dynamically expanding VHDs, each with a different Windows image. Fixed VHDs are recommended for production.
New Hyper-V Performance
VHDX
A new Hyper-V virtual hard disk (VHD) format introduced with Windows Server 2012 which increases storage capacity from 2TB to 64 TB
25% More Throughput with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
One of the most important features in Microsoft Windows 2012 Hyper-V for I/O performance is the VHDX virtual hard disk format, which provides storage for the guest OS. Testing by Microsoft shows that VHDX delivers nearly 25% better write throughput than VHD for both dynamically expanding and differencing disks.
VHDX Performance —1MB Sequential Writes
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Testing with Iometer showed the performance of competitive products was identical at real world 4k, 8k and 16k block sizes. However, the QLogic QLE2672 used up to 23% less CPU processing power to do the same work.
Performance with 16Gb FC
QLE2672
Testing by QLogic shows the QLE2672 16Gb Fibre Channel adapter delivers high IOPS with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with significantly less CPU utilization than competitive products.
Real World Performance and CPU Efficiency
When used with a high-efficiency 16Gb Fibre Channel adapter, Hyper-V with VHDX can provide even larger performance advantages. In testing performed by QLogic, the QLogic QLE2672 16Gb FC adapter delivered the same IOPS performance using real-world 4KB & 8KB block sizes for dual-port adapters as the nearest competitor—with 23% less CPU utilization. This frees CPU cycles for virtual machines and their workloads which is critical for Tier-1 applications or in dense VM environments.
CPU % - Dual Port, 100% Reads
IOPS - Dual Port, 100% Reads
IOPS Performance and CPU Utilization with 16Gb FC Adapters
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ODX Data Copy Model Offloads Server
Microsoft’s Live Migration offers the ability to move a live virtual machine from one physical server to another. Included are some interesting storage-oriented capabilities that provide added value if you use SANs (especially Fibre Channel SANs). The first is the ODX Data Copy Model. On compatible external storage arrays, ODX provides the ability to move data between LUNs without involving the server. For large data movements, this results in a huge performance improvement.
Improved Live Migration with vFC
Hyper-V’s Virtual Fibre Channel (vFC) is a new capability that augments Live Migration for those end users with Fibre Channel SANs. By creating virtual FC HBAs natively within Hyper-V, Microsoft simplifies migrations by moving the adapter with the virtual machine. This eliminates the need to re-configure network switches after a Live Migration.
Microsoft Hyper-V’s powerful migration capabilities can provide even more utility if likely failover and evolution paths in the private cloud are planned into the framework. This is especially true for migrations to resolve hardware failures, which tend to be done under considerable stress. Planning failover migrations decreases the likelihood of negative performance impacts that may ultimately have to be undone later.
Live VM Migration
Windows Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) in Windows Server 2012 directly transfers data within or between compatible storage devices, bypassing the host computer.
ODX
This diagram shows a Live Migration utilizing vFC. The 2-port virtual HBA ping-pongs from the first port to the second port, avoiding traffic disruption during the live migration.
Traditional Data Copy Model
ODX Data Copy Model
1. A user copies or moves a file or this occurs as part of a virtual machine migration.
2. Windows Server 2012 translates this transfer request into an ODX and creates a token representing the data.
3. The token is copied between the source server and des- tination server.
4. The token is delivered to the storage array.
5. The storage array internally performs the copy or move and provides status information to the user.
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16Gb Fibre Channel Helps Close the Storage Migration Window
A process known as Live Storage Migration allows for a non-disruptive migration of a running VM disk files between to different physical storage devices. This process allows for the virtual machine to remain running with no need to take its workload offline to move the VM’s files to a different physical storage device. Additional use cases for Live Storage Migration include migration of data to new storage arrays or larger capacity, better performing LUNs. NPIV zoning and LUN masking must be properly configured to ensure the VM and host server continue to have access to the storage after the migration is completed. Live Storage Migration across a 16Gb Fibre Channel link can finish in half the time it takes a 8Gb Fibre Channel link. All paths related to Live Storage Migration should be supported by high performance networks in order to reduce the time it takes to evacuate storage safely to a new destination and resume normal operations. Additionally, 10GbE links can replace 1GbE links to ensure proper bandwidth exists for Live Storage Migration in Ethernet environments.
Live Storage Migration
A single port QLE2670 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA doubles throughput for a live storage migration.
Storage Live Migration at 16Gbps
This bandwidth intensive operation now enables virtual machines and associated VHDX files to be migrated between clusters that do not have a common set of storage.
Live Storage
Migration
QLE2670 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs
QLE3240 10Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapters
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8300 Series CNAs Enable Convergence at the VM edge
QLogic Converged Network Adapter solutions leverage core technologies and expertise including the most established and proven driver stack in the industry. These adapters are designed for next-generation, virtualized, and unified data centers with powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers. Optimized to handle large numbers of virtual machines and support for VM aware network services with support for concurrent NIC, FCoE, and iSCSI traffic.
One 8300 series CNA can be configured for connectivity to an Ethernet network and to deliver storage networking via Fibre Channel over Ethernet simultaneously. Powerful iSCSI and FCoE hardware offloads improve system performance and advanced virtualization technologies are supported through secure SR-IOV or switch and OS agnostic NIC Partitioning (NPAR). Combine with QLogic’s Quality of Service (QoS) capability for consistent and guaranteed, application aware performance in dense VM environments.
Lowering the Cost of VM I/O
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol allows Fibre Channel traffic to run over Data Center Ethernet (DCE) for LAN and SAN convergence on one wire.
FCoE
For organizations maintaining a parallel LAN and SAN architecture all the way to the server adapter, QLogic offers the QLE8300 Series of adapters supporting 10GbE LAN, NAS and iSCSI SAN traffic, as well as Fibre Channel traffic.
Network Convergence at the VM Server
Adapter & Fabric Convergence
Adapter Convergence, Separate Fabrics
Both ports used for LAN, NAS and SAN traffic over Ethernet
Ethernet ToR Switch
Ethernet ToR Switch
FCoE ToR Switch
1 port used as FCoE CNA
1 port used as Ethernet NIC
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8300 Series CNAs Offload the VM Kernel from Switching Virtual NICs
Single Root I/O Virtualization is a standard that allows one PCI Express (PCIe) adapter to be presented as multiple separate logical devices to virtual machines for partitioning adapter bandwidth. The hypervisor manages the Physical Function (PF) while the Virtual Functions (VFs) are exposed to the virtual machines. In the hypervisor, SR-IOV capable network devices offer the benefits of direct I/O, which includes reduced latency and reduced host CPU utilization. With SR-IOV, pass through functionality can be provided from a single adapter to multiple virtual machines through Virtual Functions. To deploy SR-IOV today, an organization needs to ensure a minimum level of infrastructure (server hardware and OS) support for SR-IOV. In contrast, QLogic NPAR technology can similarly be used today without the minimum levels of dependencies of SR-IOV.
Low-Latency Connectivity
Latency is the time between the start and completion of one action measured in microseconds (μs) .
Latency
With SR-IOV enabled on a 10GbE NIC, pass through functionality can be provided from a single adapter to multiple virtual machines through Virtual Functions (VFs).
Implementing Pass-Through Functions with SR-IOV
8300 Series CNAs
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In Transaction Intensive and Bandwidth Intensive Environments
For virtualized environments, the most critical measure of performance is the ability to scale as the number of VMs and application workloads increase. In testing conducted by QLogic, the QLogic QLE2672 delivered three times the transactions and double the bandwidth of 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters. The QLE2672 also demonstrated a 50% advantage over competitive products for read-only performance and 25% better mixed- read-write performance. The superior performance of QLogic 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapters translates to support for higher VM density and support for more demanding Tier-1 applications.
QLogic achieves superior performance by leveraging the advanced 16Gb Fibre Channel and PCIe® Gen3 specifications—while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing Fibre Channel networks. The unique port-isolation architecture of the QLogic FlexSuite adapters ensures data integrity, security and deterministic scalable performance to drive storage traffic at line rate across all ports. QoS enables IT teams to control and prioritize traffic. And paired with adapter partitioning technology the QLE2672 can deliver capacity on demand and multitenant feature requirements of highly virtualized environments.
More Virtual CPUs for scaling Tier-1 Apps
If you’re concerned about hosting tier-1 apps on VMs, the argument about virtualizing tier-1 apps is over. Even flagship enterprise applications such as Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Exchange 2010 have adopted server virtualization as a best practice. In fact the CPU, memory, storage and networking requirements are well documented by Microsoft.
In the example on the right, a mission-critical OLTP Workload running on a single SQL Server 2012 VM demonstrates linearly increasing transactional performance and reduced transaction response times as the number of virtual CPUs assigned to the workload are increased to the maximum of 64 now supported on Hyper-V.
Scalability with 16Gb FC
Throughput
Bandwidth refers to the maximum potential volume. Throughput is the actual volume. Both are measured as the amount of data transferred in a given time or megabytes per second (MBps).
The number of transactions processed per second and the average response time were monitored as virtual CPUs were increased from 4-64. The OLTP workload and concurrent user counts remained constant.
Hyper-V Virtual CPU Scalability
With OLTP Workloads
(Source: Microsoft )
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10000 Series FabricCache Adapters Cache Hot VM Data
The 10000 Series is the industry's first caching SAN adapter. This new class of server- based PCIe SSD/Fibre Channel HBAs uses the Fibre Channel network to cache and share SAN metadata. Adding large caches to servers places the cache closest to the application and in a position where it is insensitive to congestion.
An advantage to this approach is that PCIe flash based caching can be shared and replicated in different servers for high-availability and for cache coherency across migrating servers in a virtual machine cluster. With the FabricCache architecture, the new generation of PCIe SSDs provide redundancy and fail-over for a new level of enterprise-class availability.
Accelerating App Performance
A QLogic architecture for sharing and replicating cache on a PCIe SSD adapter in a SAN.
FabricCache
The lightning fast SSD SLC flash from the 10000 Series FabricCache adapters is used to cache hot data stored on a FC SAN array. For high availability, the cache LUNs from a FabricCache adapter in one server can fail-over to a FabricCache adapter in another server and can also be used for cache coherency across migrating servers in a virtual machine cluster.
Shared PCIe SSD
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The Bottom Line
The improvement factor for Memory per VM for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V — addressing the biggest issue in scaling VMs.
16X
More VMs with Hyper-V, Xeon E5 and QLogic Server Adapters
Fabric-based networks are a fundamental requirement in supporting highly virtualized data centers. Fibre Channel SANs are the nucleus of the next-generation Windows Server 2012 data center. If your goal is to increase VM density, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, combined with the latest generation of servers based on Intel Xeon E5 processors, and QLogic server adapters allow you to more than double the number of VMs per server while enjoying the same level of performance. Virtualization features like Microsoft vFC and Fibre Channel QoS from QLogic combine to deliver reliability, performance, and the flexibility necessary to manage the complexity and risks associated with virtualization projects. Choosing to virtualize tier-1 data center applications or increase virtualization densities with QLogic and Hyper-V will enable your businesses to leverage the built-in architecture of both products to increase availability, improve agility, and overcome scalability and performance concerns.
Hyper-V delivers improvements on all key virtualization metrics—making I/O performance critical.
Windows Server
2008 R2 Hyper-V
2012 Hyper-V
Factor
Host
HW Logical Processors
64 LPs
320 LPs
5x
Physical Memory
1 TB
4 TB
4x
Virtual CPUs per Host
512
2048
4x
VM
Virtual CPUs per VM
4
64
16x
Memory per VM
64GB
1TB
16x
Active VMs per Host
384
1024
2.7x
Guest NUMA
No
Yes
-
Cluster
Max Nodes
16
64
4x
Max VMs
1,000
8,000
8x
18. Related Links
What’s New in Hyper-V—Platform
What’s New in Hyper-V—Networking
What’s New in Hyper-V— Virtual Fibre Channel Storage
What’s new in Hyper-V—Storage Migration
QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters
QLogic Converged Network Adapters
Acceleration for Microsoft SQL Servers
About the Authors
Rahul Shah, Director, IT Brand Pulse Labs Rahul Shah has over 20 years of experience in senior engineering and product management positions with semiconductor, storage networking and IP networking manufacturers including QLogic and Lantronics. At IT Brand Pulse, Rahul is responsible for managing the delivery of technical services ranging from hands-on testing to product launch collateral. You can contact Rahul at rahul.shah@itbrandpulse.com.
Tim Lustig, Director of Corporate Marketing, QLogic Corporation
With over 18 years of experience in the storage networking industry, Lustig has authored numerous papers and articles on all aspects of IT storage, and has been a featured speaker at many industry conferences on a global basis. As the Director of Corporate Marketing at QLogic, Lustig is responsible for corporate communications, , third party testing/validation, outbound marketing activities and strategic product marketing directives of QLogic. His responsibilities include customer research, evaluation of market conditions, press and Media relations, social media and technical writing.
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