Improve Data Center Efficiency with I/O Convergence.

As the demand for storage continues to be relentless causing available bandwidth to fill up fast, and is fueling the rapid migration from 4Gbps to 8Gbps Fibre Channel and from 1Gbps Ethernet to 10Gbps Ethernet. According to this Infostor report, implementing FCoE with virtualization is one way to extract value from the virtualization framework, and can improve data center cost efficiency through I/O convergence.

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"Most servers are hosting more and more VMs. For example, many multi-core servers have as many as 16 VMs. A February 2010 Dell' Oro Group report forecasts that the number of VMs will double between 2010 and 2012 to 16 million VMs. This spectacular VM growth will continue to drive an endless thirst for higher and higher LAN and SAN I/O bandwidth, which in turn drives the opportunity for more and more VM growth.

"Consider that hypervisor vendor best practices for network I/O configurations recommended separate, redundant physical 1Gbps ports for each workload within a virtualized platform. This requirement may enable the proliferation of cable and server adapter (HBAs and NICs) sprawl. However, as data centers incorporate higher I/O bandwidth, such as lossless 10GbE Data Center Bridging (DCB) technology, virtualized servers can benefit from better cost-per-gigabit economics by maximizing I/O efficiency with SAN and LAN convergence via 10Gbps FCoE."

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