Qlogic QLE2672 Dual Port 16G Fibre Channel HBA

Overview

The 2600 Series adapters are QLogic’s sixth generation of Fibre Channel Adapters. They boast industry – leading native Fibre Channel performance – achieving dual port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel
throughput – at extremely low CPU utilization with full hardware offloads. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.

In addition, support for powerful virtualization features make this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs)

Highlights

• 16Gbps per port maximum throughput for high
  bandwidth storage (SAN) traffic
•  Decreased power and cooling costs by using the
  fewest PCI Express® lanes in PCIe Gen3
  environments
• Up to 1 million IOPS reduce latency in high transaction
  intensive applications and virtualized environments
• Overlapping protection domains (OPD) to ensure
  a high level of reliability as data moves to and
  from the PCI Bus and Fibre Channel network
• SR-IOV support for faster performance in virtualized
  environments
• Complete investment protection for legacy 8Gb
  and 4Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure
• Reduced hardware, cabling, and management costs
  by enabling more applications (virtual machines) to run
  on a single server and Fibre Channel port

Virtualization Optimized

The 2600 Series adapters, powered by QLogic VMflex technology™, support standards-based virtualization such as N-port ID virtualization (NPIV) and virtual storage area networks (virtual fabrics). In addition, single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) may be enabled to allow enhanced I/O performance in virtualized environments and improved VM scalability for increasing storage workloads.

Superior Applications Performance

The QLogic 2600 Series of 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters consume the lowest CPU to drive storage traffic at line rate across all ports. With support for over 1 million I/O transactions per second, QLogic adapters deliver the best storage application performance in virtualized and non-virtualized environments.

Investment Protection

The adapters are backward compatible with existing 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure.

The adapters are also compatible with the same Fibre Channel software driver stack that has been tested and validated across all major hardware platforms, all major Hypervisors and operating systems (OSs), and has been battle-hardened in millions of previous installations.

Fibre Channel Specifications

Throughput

• 16Gbps full-duplex line rate per port
  (maximum)
  Logins
• Support for 2,048 concurrent logins
  and 2,048 active exchanges
  Port Virtualization
• N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)

Compliance

• SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSIFCP), Fibre Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) Profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2), Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3), FCoE & FIP (FC-BB-5)

Tools and Utilities

Management Tools and Device Utilities

• QConvergeConsole: a unified management tool (GUI and CLI) for Fibre Channel/FCoE, iSCSI, and networking

Boot Support

• BIOS, UEFI, FCode APIs
•  SNIAHBAAPI V2, SMI-S

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Server®, Red Hat® Linux®, Novell® SLES, VMware ESX®/ESXi, Citrix® XenServer® , Oracle Solaris® Oracle VM, and Oracle Linux