Optimizing Device Performance

2–Planning Multiple Chassis Fabrics

When choosing a topology for a multiple chassis fabric, you should also consider the locality of your server and storage devices and the performance requirements of your application. Storage applications such as video distribution, medical record storage/retrieval or real-time data acquisition can have specific latency or bandwidth requirements.

The QLogic 9000 Series switch provides the lowest latency of any product in its class. Refer to “Performance” on page 2-3for information about latency and bandwidth. However, the highest performance is achieved on Fibre Channel switches by keeping traffic within a single I/O blade. Therefore, for optimal device performance place devices on the same I/O blade under the following conditions:

Heavy I/O traffic between specific server and storage devices.

Distinct speed mismatch between devices such as the following:

An 8-Gbps server and a slower 4-Gbps storage device

A high performance server and slow tape storage device

When planning a fabric, consider how to create redundant paths and minimize latency. Initiators and targets experience the least amount of latency when connected to the same I/O blade. For example, connecting initiators and targets ports together in parallel on two I/O blades, as shown in Figure 2-1, creates redundant paths and minimizes latency.

Initiators

Targets

Figure 2-1 Single Switch Fabric with Initiators and Targets

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59229-05 A, 9100 specifications

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Q-Logic 59229-05 A, 9100 manual Optimizing Device Performance

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