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QLogic and Veeam Collaborate for 10GbE Converged Networking Solution

For virtualized environment

QLogic Corp. has collaborated with Veeam Software, Inc. to provide complete solutions that leverage the advantages of 10GbE converged infrastructure for virtualized environments.

Utilizing the increased performance and simplified management of next-generation 10GbE converged networks powered by QLogic, Veeam enterprise customers can meet and exceed their recovery and restore requirements.

QLogic is working with the Veeam Solutions Lab in Alpharetta, GA, which demonstrates Veeam Availability Suite v8 to customers and is also used for product performance testing with technical alliance partners. An I/O provider for the lab, QLogic, updated its next-generation 8400 Series CNAs which provide connectivity between vSphere and Hyper-V hypervisors and various storage arrays. Building on a long history of delivering interoperable solutions, QLogic and Veeam are working to ensure enterprises experience maximum performance and functionality when implementing QLogic 8400 Series adapters with Veeam Backup & Replication.

Veeam Backup & Replication provides image-based backup, replication and restore capabilities for vSphere and Hyper-V. Veeam has pioneered a market of Availability for the Modern Data Center by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data through a new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite v8, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, leverages virtualization, storage and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and reduce capital and operational costs.

Data centers are creating greater VM densities and are virtualizing mission-critical workloads. This trend is increasing the demand for shared storage; flatter, more scalable networks; higher bandwidth and more I/O capacity,” said Chris Lorenz, director, partner marketing, QLogic. “QLogic 10GbE 8400 Series converged network adapters and Veeam Availability Suite v8 are part of a new breed of high-performing and flexible solutions that have simplified the management of these virtualized environments.

The Veeam Availability Suite v8, combined with QLogic 10GbE 8400 Series converged network adapters, provides backup and recovery for today’s modern data center VMs, guest OS files and applications,” said Rick Vanover, community manager, product strategy ,Veeam. “By leveraging a high-performance converged networking infrastructure to perform backup and replication tasks, system administrators can relieve I/O multipathing and CPU cycles from the VMware or Hyper-V infrastructure. Organizations can lower their data center’s TCO and improve service levels by minimizing downtime and disruption with the fastest possible recovery and the lowest RTPO.

The 10GbE 8400 Series is a CNA with hardware-based FCoE and iSCSI offloads to maximize storage networking performance. It is a solution for workload-intensive computing environments, providing 10GbE connectivity for converged infrastructures. With low CPU utilization, it delivers performance for the demanding IT workloads. 10GbE 8400 Series adapters feature switch-independent NIC partitioning (NPAR) technology. Designed for both bare-metal and virtual environments, this switch-agnostic approach enables administrators to split up the 10GbE network pipe to divide and reallocate bandwidth and resources at the adapter level, as needed. This reduces implementation time and lowers the total cost of 10GbE migrations.

Designed for Next-Generation Multi-Tenant Server Virtualization
8400 Series 10GbE CNAs support most compelling network virtualization features, including: SR-IOV, enhanced and concurrent NIC partitioning, and tunneling offloads (VXLAN and NVGRE). This enhances customers’ choices and flexibility, allowing them to create more agile virtual server platforms. The adapters deliver network function virtualization (NFV) features for performance overlay networks. This maximizes server-processing performance by providing an offloaded NIC for cloud deployments on Windows Server 2012 and vSphere 5.

QLogic 10GbE: Performance with Flexibility
By delivering 10GbE performance with low CPU utilization, QLogic adapters excel in modern computing environments. Featuring multiple protocol offload and concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE, iSCSI) protocol processing over a shared 10GbE link, the adapters offer flexibility. Ultra-low CPU utilization frees up server cycles for business-critical applications and the increased mobility of VMs.

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