Dell Emulex 6W2FW Single Port 16GB Fibre Channel HBA

Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D Single Port 16GB

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D is a high-performance Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) designed for seamless integration with enterprise-level data centers, providing reliable and efficient connectivity for high-speed storage environments. This single-port adapter offers a 16GB Fibre Channel connection, ensuring optimal data throughput and low latency for demanding applications. With its robust features and capabilities, it is the ideal solution for businesses that require fast and secure data transmission in a highly scalable and cost-effective manner.

Key Features

• Single-port 16GB Fibre Channel connection for high-speed data transfer
• Low-latency performance for real-time applications
• Supports a wide range of operating systems for seamless integration
• Dual-ported design for redundancy and high availability
• Compliant with enterprise-class storage solutions
• Optimized for both SAN and NAS environments
• Advanced features including hardware offload for increased efficiency

High-Speed Data Transfer and Low Latency

The 16GB Fibre Channel connectivity of the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D enables ultra-fast data transfer speeds, reducing bottlenecks and enhancing system performance. This is crucial for applications that demand high throughput and low latency, such as virtualized environments, databases, and large-scale storage systems. With a high-speed connection, users can rely on the HBA for uninterrupted and fast data access, which is essential in mission-critical environments.

Improved Storage Efficiency with Hardware Offload

One of the standout features of the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D is its ability to offload intensive processing tasks from the host CPU, ensuring that the system can maintain optimal performance without being bogged down by storage operations. Hardware offload features enhance the overall efficiency of the system, reducing the impact on the host processor and improving system responsiveness in high-demand environments.

Compatibility and Integration

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D HBA is compatible with a wide range of servers, workstations, and operating systems, making it a versatile solution for businesses with diverse IT infrastructure. Its adaptability ensures smooth integration into both existing and newly deployed storage environments.

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows Server (all major versions)
• Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu)
• VMware vSphere and ESXi
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Various enterprise-class storage solutions

Perfect for SAN and NAS Environments

Whether your organization relies on Storage Area Networks (SAN) or Network-Attached Storage (NAS), the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D is engineered to deliver outstanding performance. Its Fibre Channel technology ensures that storage traffic is efficiently handled, enabling smooth data access across the network.

Reliability and Redundancy for Critical Environments

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D HBA is built to offer high reliability and redundancy, making it an excellent choice for organizations that cannot afford downtime. With its failover capabilities and dual-port functionality, the adapter ensures continuous operation in case of a hardware failure, providing high availability for mission-critical applications.

Dual-Port Redundancy for High Availability

The dual-port design of the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D allows for multiple Fibre Channel connections to be established, creating a redundant data path. This redundancy minimizes the risk of downtime, ensuring that if one port or link fails, the other port can take over the data transmission, maintaining seamless access to storage resources.

Advanced Data Protection and Data Integrity

In addition to redundancy, the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D also supports various data protection features such as CRC error detection and end-to-end data integrity. These advanced features help ensure that data is accurately transmitted across the Fibre Channel network, without corruption, even in high-throughput environments.

Enterprise-Class Scalability and Flexibility

As businesses grow and their storage needs evolve, scalability becomes a critical consideration. The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D is designed with scalability in mind, providing the flexibility needed to expand your storage infrastructure as your company’s requirements increase. It supports various network topologies, including point-to-point, fabric, and arbitrated loop, ensuring that it can meet the needs of any size deployment.

Scalable Network Topologies

• Point-to-Point: Direct connection between two devices, ideal for smaller environments or dedicated links.
• Fabric: Centralized fabric for large, complex networks, offering greater flexibility and better management.
• Arbitrated Loop: Simplified loop configuration ideal for smaller environments where simplicity is a key consideration.

Support for High-Density Storage Systems

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D is also capable of supporting high-density storage systems, such as blade servers and dense data centers. This ensures that it can meet the storage requirements of enterprises, even those with the most demanding workloads. With its advanced features, the adapter can scale efficiently to meet future growth without compromising performance.

Energy-Efficient Performance

In today's environmentally conscious world, energy efficiency is a crucial consideration for any data center. The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D has been optimized to deliver high performance while minimizing energy consumption. This helps reduce operational costs and contributes to a greener IT infrastructure. The HBA’s design ensures that the device operates within energy-efficient parameters, reducing the carbon footprint of your data center.

Low Power Consumption

Unlike other high-performance HBAs, the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D features a low-power design that minimizes energy usage. By reducing the amount of power required for operation, organizations can lower their energy bills while maintaining top-tier performance for their storage networks.

Reduced Heat Generation

Another benefit of the low-power consumption design is that it generates less heat. This reduces the need for extensive cooling solutions, further improving the overall energy efficiency of the system and making it easier to maintain optimal environmental conditions in data centers.

Comprehensive Support and Management Tools

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D HBA is backed by a comprehensive suite of management tools that make it easy to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot. These tools provide administrators with the visibility they need to optimize performance, ensure reliability, and perform maintenance tasks with minimal disruption.

Management Software and Tools

• Emulex OneCommand Manager: A powerful suite of tools that allows for easy configuration, monitoring, and management of Emulex HBAs and CNAs.
• Emulex LightPulse HBA: Provides a simple and efficient way to manage the HBAs, with advanced diagnostics and reporting features.
• SNMP and CLI support: For integration into existing IT management frameworks, allowing remote monitoring and control of the system.

Proactive Monitoring and Diagnostics

The monitoring and diagnostic capabilities of the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D enable IT teams to proactively identify and resolve potential issues before they escalate. This ensures that storage systems remain operational and performance remains consistent, reducing downtime and minimizing disruptions in the data center.

Use Cases

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D HBA is a versatile component that can be used in various storage-related applications, making it a crucial asset for businesses in need of reliable storage connectivity. Its support for Fibre Channel ensures that it can meet the requirements of both small and large-scale deployments in a variety of industries.

Virtualization Environments

The Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D is perfect for virtualization environments where high-performance storage access is needed. By utilizing Fibre Channel, it can provide the low-latency and high-throughput connectivity required to support virtual machines and ensure that data is accessible at all times. Its compatibility with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V makes it an excellent choice for virtualized infrastructures.

Database Management Systems

For enterprises that rely on database management systems, the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D offers exceptional performance and reliability. Whether for transactional databases, data warehousing, or real-time analytics, the HBA ensures that databases can access storage quickly and efficiently, without compromising performance.

Large-Scale Data Centers

For large-scale data centers, where performance, scalability, and redundancy are critical, the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D offers an ideal solution. Its dual-port redundancy, high-speed connectivity, and flexible integration options make it an essential component in any enterprise-class storage environment.

Storage Area Networks (SAN)

As the backbone of many large data centers, SANs rely on high-performance HBAs like the Dell Emulex LPE31000-M6-D to maintain fast, secure data transmission between servers and storage devices. Its support for Fibre Channel ensures that it is well-suited for SAN deployments, offering the scalability and reliability required in complex IT infrastructures.