QLogic Single Chip FCoE CNAs Available From HP

QLogic Corp. announced that its 8100 Series CNAs are now certified and available for HP ProLiant DL and ML.

Built on the same QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel stack that customers use today, QLogic 8100 Series CNAs support simultaneous storage and data networking traffic at full 10GbE line speeds, allowing customers to leverage the ubiquity and economics of Ethernet while preserving the investment and strengths of Fibre Channel. QLogic 8100 Series CNAs consume only one third the power of existing CNA chip sets and are the only CNAs on the market to completely eliminate the need for a heat sink. The 8100 Series FCoE CNAs are the latest in an extensive list of HP network connectivity solutions from QLogic that includes InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, iSCSI and 10Gb Ethernet adapters.

"The QLogic 8100 Series single-chip FCoE converged network adapter, with its battle-proven Fibre Channel stack for proven interoperability and low profile design for easy integration into any server, allows customers to build highly efficient and affordable unified networks," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic Corp.

"Customers can reduce operating costs by minimizing the amount of adapters deployed in their unified networking environment," said McLeod Glass, manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "Combining QLogic’s single-chip converged network adapters with HP ProLiant DL and ML series servers allows customers to dramatically decrease power consumption while increasing data center space."

Based on QLogic’s advanced Network Plus Architecture, the 8100 Series is designed for next-generation, virtualized and unified data centers with powerful multi-processor, multi-core servers and is available in multiple form factors, including standard and mezzanine cards. QLogic 8100 Series CNAs are optimized for both data and storage networking virtualization with superior 10Gb Enhanced Ethernet performance to handle massive quantities of virtual machines.