World's Fastest 10GbE Converged Network Adapters from Broadcom

World's Fastest 10GbE Converged Network Adapters from Broadcom Earn Another Major Industry Certification - VMware vSphere® 5

10GbE Converged Network Adapters Deliver Complete Storage Solution for Enterprise Server Virtualization

 

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 

News Highlights:

• Broadcom Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) address growing demand for virtualization in data centers
• CNAs deliver fully certified storage solution for VMware vSphere5
• World's fastest FCoE performance – 80 percent faster than nearest competitor(1)

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its converged network adapters (CNAs) have earned FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) certification on VMware vSphere 5. Following other recent certifications – EMCE‑Lab and NetAppvalidation – VMware vSphere 5 marks another major industry certification milestone in Broadcom's expanding 10GbE storage and networking ecosystem. Visit http://www.broadcom.com to learn more.

Demand for server virtualization continues to rise as IT managers strive to maximize efficiency of servers, increase security, and ensure higher levels of automated performance. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts more than 70 percent of all server workloads installed on new shipments in 2014 will reside in a virtual machine.(2)

vSphere 5 is the latest version of VMware's virtualization platform for small- and mid-size businesses, as well as enterprise-class users. VMware vSphere 5 delivers better application performance and availability for business-critical applications while automating the management of an increasingly broad pool of data center resources. VMware's certification confirms Broadcom's CNAs offer full interoperability within vSphere 5 environments.

Industry Leading Performance

Broadcom CNAs deliver FCoE performance speeds of up to 1.7 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) – more than 80 percent faster than the nearest competitor(1), optimizing virtualization by uniting data and storage networks on a common 10GbE fabric. By taking advantage of switch-independent NIC partitioning, Broadcom's FCoE solution allows the server to adapt to a broad range of bandwidth configurations and reduce power and cooling costs while minimizing overall system complexity.  In addition to FCoE offload, it features multiprotocol support including Level 2 (L2) networking, Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI).

Quotes:

Parag Patel, Vice President, Alliances, VMware

"Broadcom's converged network adapters meet VMware's certification requirements for running business-critical applications. This certification underscores the long-standing relationship between Broadcom and VMware, bringing significant value to our mutual customers.  VMware vSphere accelerates the journey to the cloud for existing data centers while underpinning compatible public cloud offerings that pave the way to the hybrid cloud."

Benjamin Woo, VP Storage and Big Data, International Data Corporation

"Server virtualization is the 'killer app' for the datacenter and has forever changed IT operations. Virtualization customers are rapidly deploying converged hardware as a means to lower time to deployment and to simplify an increasingly complex datacenter infrastructure. This certification of Broadcom's 10GbE CNA is an important milestone because it ensures full interoperability with one of the industry's most popular virtualization environments."

Vinod Lakhani, General Manager, High Speed Controllers, Broadcom Corporation

"Server virtualization, cloud computing, and the need to contain costs and complexity are all major factors driving the need for 10GbE converged network adapters (CNAs). Broadcom is meeting that demand with the world's fastest CNAs and is proud that its fully offloaded FCoE solutions have earned VMware's vSphere 5 certification. This validation underscores Broadcom's growing ecosystem of solution partners."

Resources:

(1) Demartek (based on Broadcom's ~1.7 million IOPS compared to Emulex's 919,268 IOPS in OCe10102)

(2) International Data Corporation

(3) Broadcom BCM97712-T Dual-Port 10GBASE-T Adapter

(4) VMware vSphere 5

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments.  With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

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Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Market Share..

Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Post Double Digit Growth for Sixth Consecutive Quarter, According to IDC 

02 Dec 2011 

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., December 2, 2011 – Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 10.8%, totaling just under $5.8 billion, in the third quarter of 2011 (3Q11), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $7.6 billion in revenues, representing 8.5% growth from the prior year's third quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 5,429 petabytes, growing 30.7% year over year.

"The third quarter of 2011 was a strong quarter for Enterprise Storage, posting solid growth in factory revenue and signaling a return to 'business as normal'," said Liz Conner, senior research analyst, Storage Systems. "The trend of increased spending during the economic recovery period, specifically on high-end systems, has started to draw to a close. As IDC predicted, year-over-year growth has started to slow and is now approaching pre-economic crisis levels."

Total External Disk Storage Systems

EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 28.6% revenue share in the third quarter, followed by IBM and NetApp tied* for second with 12.7% and 12.1% market share respectively. HP ended the quarter in fourth position, with 11.3%. Hitachi and Dell finished in a tie* for fifth with 8.8% and 8.0% market share respectively.

Open Networked Disk Storage Systems

The total open networked disk storage market (NAS Combined with Open / iSCSI SAN) grew 12.3% year over year in the third quarter to just shy of $4.9 billion in revenues. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total open networked storage market with 31.3% revenue share, followed by NetApp with a 14.4% revenue share.

In the Open SAN market, which grew 16.1% year over year, EMC was the leading vendor with 25.3% revenue share, followed by IBM in second and HP in third with 15.4% and 14.0% share, respectively.

The NAS market grew 3.5% year over year, led by EMC with 46.7% revenue share and followed by NetApp with 30.9% share. The iSCSI SAN market continues to show strong growth, posting 19.5% revenue growth compared to the prior year's quarter. Dell led the market with 30.3% revenue share, followed by EMC in second with 19.2% and HP in third with 14.0% market share.

"Strong growth in the midrange segment (price bands 6 & 7, $50K-149.99K) helped the overall growth in the third quarter of 2011" said Amita Potnis, senior research analyst, Storage Systems. "The trend to buy modular systems offering enterprise level functionality, such as scale-out architectures, tiering, data deduplication, etc. continues."

Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Third Quarter of 2011 (Revenues are in Millions) 

Vendor	3Q11 Revenue	3Q11 Market Share	3Q10 Revenue	3Q10 Market Share	3Q11/3Q10 Revenue Growth
1. EMC	$1,649	28.6%	$1,351	25.9%	22.0%
T2. IBM*	$735	12.7%	$667	12.8%	10.2%
T2. NetApp*	$700	12.1%	$601	11.5%	16.5%
4. HP	$651	11.3%	$575	11.0%	13.1%
T5. Hitachi*	$505	8.8%	$414	8.0%	22.1%
T5. Dell*	$459	8.0%	$471	9.0%	-2.6%
Others	$1,069	18.5%	$1,128	21.7%	-5.2%
All Vendors	$5,767	100.0%	$5,207	100.0%	10.8%

Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, December 2, 2011

Notes:

• Starting in Q4 2010, HP is reported as the combined entity of HP and 3PAR.
• Starting in Q1 2011, EMC is reported as the combined entity of EMC and Isilon.
• Starting in Q1 2011, Dell is reported as the combined entity of Dell and Compellent.
• * IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide disk storage market when there is less than one percent difference in the factory revenues of two or more vendors.

Total Disk Storage Systems Market

In the total worldwide disk storage systems market, EMC finished in the top position followed by HP with market shares of 21.7% and 18.9% respectively.

Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Third Quarter of 2011 (Revenues are in Millions) 

Vendor		3Q11 Revenue		3Q11 Market Share		3Q10 Revenue		3Q10 Market Share		3Q11/3Q10 Revenue Growth
1. EMC	$1,649		21.7%		$1,351		19.3%		22.0%
2. HP	$1,436		18.9%		$1,359		19.4%		5.7%
3. IBM	$1,125		14.8%		$1,035		14.8%		8.7%
4. Dell	$879		11.6%		$838		12.0%		4.9%
5. NetApp	$700		9.2%		$601		8.6%		16.5%
Others	$1,812		23.8%		$1,822		26.0%		-0.6%
All Vendors	$7,600		100.0%		$7,006		100.0%		8.5%

Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, December 2, 2011

Notes:

• Starting in Q4 2010, HP is reported as the combined entity of HP and 3PAR.
• Starting in Q1 2011, EMC is reported as the combined entity of EMC and Isilon.
• Starting in Q1 2011, Dell is reported as the combined entity of Dell and Compellent.

Taxonomy Notes:

IDC defines a Disk Storage System as a set of storage elements, including controllers, cables, and (in some instances) host bus adapters, associated with three or more disks. A system may be located outside of or within a server cabinet and the average cost of the disk storage systems does not include infrastructure storage hardware (i.e. switches) and non-bundled storage software.

The information in this quantitative study is based on a branded view of the disk storage systems sale. Revenue associated with the products to the end user is attributed to the seller (brand) of the product, not the manufacturer. Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sales are not included in this study. In this study, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) sales do not reflect their OEM sales to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.

IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global disk storage market on a quarterly basis. The Tracker includes quarterly shipments and revenues (both customer and factory), Terabytes, $/Gigabyte, Gigabyte/Unit, and Average Selling Value. Each criteria can be segmented by location, installation base, operating system, vendor, family, model, and region.

For more information about IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, please contact Hoang Nguyen at 508-935-4718 or hnguyen@idc.com.

About IDC

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,000 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. For more than 47 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and events company. You can learn more about IDC by visiting www.idc.com.

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This is available only in the newer devices that support WLAN
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*#92702689# – takes you to a secret menu where you may find
some of the information below:
1. Displays Serial Number.
2. Displays the Month and Year of Manufacture
3. Displays (if there) the date where the phone was purchased (MMYY)
4. Displays the date of the last repair – if found (0000)
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Fiber Channel Maximum Distance

FCIP Routers – A Best Practice Design Tip

FCIP Routers – A Best Practice Design Tip

Posted  by Jim (Thanks)

Many years ago a Glaswegian friend of mine quoted someone as saying that the1981 anti-apartheid protests in New Zealand (South African rugby tour) showed that New Zealand was not just a floating Surrey as some had previously suspected. While the Surrey reference might be lost on those not from the England, I can tell you there are some distinct cultural and language differences between NZ and England.

For example, there was a (not very good) punk band called ‘Rooter’ back in the late 1970′s in New Zealand. They ended up having to change their name to The Terrorways because ‘Rooter’ was  considered too offensive by the managers of many pubs and clubs.

I guess that’s why in NZ we always pronounce ‘router’ to rhyme with ‘shouter’ even though we pronounce ‘route’ to rhyme with ‘shoot’. We’re kind of stuck in the middle between British and American English.

Pronunciation issues aside however, FCIP routers are a highly reliable way to connect fabrics and allow replication over the WAN between fibre channel disk systems. The price of FCIP routers seems to have halved over the last year or so, which is handy and live replicated DR sites have become much more commonplace in the midrange space in the last couple of years.

Apart from the WAN itself (which is the source of most replication problems) there are a couple of other things that it’s good to be aware of when assembling a design and bill of materials for FCIP routers.

1. When you’re using the IBM SAN06B-R (Brocade 7800) we always recommend including the licence for ‘Integrated Routing’ if you’re going out over the WAN. This prevents the fabrics at either end of an FCIP link from merging. If a WAN link bounces occasionally as many do, you want to protect your fabrics from repeatedly having to work out who’s in charge and stalling traffic on the SAN while they do that. Without IR your WAN FCIP environment might not really even be supportable.
2. Similarly I usually recommend the ‘Advanced Performance Monitoring’ feature. If you run into replication performance problems APM will tell you what the FC app is actually seeing rather than you having to make assumptions based on IP network tools.
3. The third point is new to me and was the real trigger for this blog post (thanks to Alexis Giral for his expertise in this area) and that is if you have only one router per site (as most do) then best practice is to connect only one fabric at each site as per the diagram below.

The reason for this is that the routers and the switches all run the same FabricOS and there is a small potential for an error to be propagated across fabrics, even though Integrated Routing supposedly isolates the fabrics. This is something that Alexis tells me he has explored in detail with Brocade and they too recommend this as a point of best practice. If you already have dual-fabric connected single routers then I’m not sure the risk is high enough to warrant a reconfiguration, but if you’re starting from scratch you should not connect them all up. This would also apply if you are using Cisco MDS922i and MDS91xx for example, as all switches and routers would be running NXOS and the same potential for error propagation exists.