Demartek Intel X520 10GbE Converged Network Adapter Evaluation

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As the interest in converged networks grows, and as the vendors from the traditional Ethernet adapter and Fibre Channel adapter marketplaces produce converged products, questions arise about the capabilities and performance of Converged Network Adapters (CNA) that support storage over Ethernet protocols including NFS, iSCSI, and FCoE. Intel® commissioned Demartek to compare the performance of CNAs from two leading Fibre Channel adapter vendors and the Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 in virtual server environments with various numbers of guest virtual machines.

A variety of application performance workloads were run on each of these three Converged Network Adapters connecting servers to storage targets using FCoE. These workloads were run with various numbers of guests running in a VMware vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 environment. The goal of this testing was to evaluate products in environments similar to actual customer environments. As a result, these tests were performed with well-known disk storage arrays with spinning disk drives in FCoE and iSCSI configurations similar to those typically found in customer data centers, rather than testing "micro-benchmark" performance with specialized hardware not typically found in customer environments.

The full report is available at http://www.demartek.com/Demartek_Intel_X520_Performance_Evaluation_2012-11.html on the Demartek website.
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