Storage controller card XE201

PCIeEthernet

One Product, One SKU, Multiple I/O Connectivity Options In a market landscape that has more I/O options to choose from than ever before, the XE201 PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 I/O controller provides best-of breed Fibre Channel connectivity, along with Ethernet and multiple protocols, providing unique connectivity combinations on a single ASIC. The XE201 delivers the industry’s first native 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) product that enables you to choose a combination of up to four ports of native 8GFC and 16GFC, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, RDMA* over Converged Ethernet (RoCE*), 10GbE and 40GbE for the ultimate in design flexibility. The XE201 delivers a low-power, single-chip solution that may be incorporated into industry-standard PCI Express expansion cards, custom format mezzanine cards, special-purpose storage target controllers, daughter cards or integrated directly into a system motherboard (e.g., LOM). Breakthrough Scalability Powers More Virtual Machines, More Workload With its unique eight processor core architecture, the XE201 takes convergence and scalability to a new level, supporting ever expanding virtualization and cloud initiatives. The XE201 implements in hardware what was previously designed into firmware to deliver optimum performance. The controller design took a holistic system approach with Emulex vEngine™ technology, offloading more I/O onto the XE201 ASIC, thereby lowering the CPU burden on the host server.