QLogic Collaborates With Dell

QLogic Corporation
announced that its 2600 Series FC adapters will be used as part of Dell, Inc.‘s
solutions to deliver an end-to-end 16Gb FC SANs.

These adapters will provide 16Gb FC connectivity for Dell 12th Generation
PowerEdge rack, tower and blade servers, as well as native 16Gb FC connectivity
for Dell Compellent Storage.

"With
the world’s largest installed base of FC adapters, QLogic delivers unmatched
versatility and industry-leading performance with our 2600 Series 16Gb FC
portfolio," said Amit Vashi, VP of marketing, Host Solutions Group,
QLogic. "Our long history of
collaboration with Dell and our expertise in FC networking, from server to storage,
have earned us this 16Gb FC business for Dell Compellent storage and PowerEdge
blade servers. Through dramatically increased I/O and bandwidth, QLogic
end-to-end 16Gb FC connectivity allows Dell to provide customers with faster
deployments and greatly improved application performance."

"QLogic 2600 Series adapters allow
Dell to deliver first-to-market, end-to-end 16Gb FC storage network solutions,"
said Dan McConnell, director of marketing and product management, Dell
Compellent. "From host to storage,
with no bottlenecks in between, Dell’s end-to-end 16Gb FC solution drives
unprecedented application performance and provides the perfect I/O companion
for state of the art Intel and AMD based servers, virtualized data centers and
cloud computing environments."

Available to Dell customers in both mezzanine and standard PCIe formats, the
QLogic 2600 Series provides enterprise data centers with several
attributes including:

• Performance: The
  QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb FC adapter handles three times the transactions (1.2
  Million IOPs) and double the throughput (6,000MBps) of 8Gb FC, thereby increasing
  application performance and cutting back-up times in half. These
  adapters are optimized for performance in next-generation servers with support
  for the new PCIe 3.0 bus architecture.
• Leadership, Confidence and Trust:
  The underlying QLogic FC stack is proven in more than 13 million ports deployed
  in enterprise data centers around the world. QLogic’s port-level isolation
  architecture adds an additional layer of reliability in dual-port
  configurations. Competitive offerings utilize the same resources for both
  ports, which means that if one port fails, both ports go offline, causing an
  outage. Port isolation architecture ensures that if one port should
  encounter issues, the second, isolated port will take over and keep data moving
  without interruption.
• Interoperability: QLogic
  solutions are tested and interoperable with more than 10,000 industry products.
  QLogic’s networking stack includes pervasive support for the OS platforms and
  hypervisors including Windows Server with Hyper-V, VMware ESX/ESXi, Red Hat and
  SUSE Linux (including KVM), Solaris and Citrix XenServer. The 2600 Series
  shares the same FC stack with the millions of QLogic 8Gb and 4Gb FC adapter
  ports already installed in enterprises around the globe.
• Virtualization: The
  2600 Series provides a scalable architecture for higher VM
  deployment per server while still providing offload capabilities with increased
  bandwidth allocation to each VM. 2600 Series adapters further enhance VM
  mobility by increasing availability to meet peak-demand workloads. The 2600 Series includes support for features such as virtual
  FC in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and management plug-ins for Microsoft System
  Center Virtual Machine Manager. For VMware environments, the QLogic
  QConvergeConsole Plug-in for VMware vCenter, a set of software components
  delivered through a common information model (CIM), enables use of the same
  application integrated within the vCenter.
• Powering
  the Cloud
  The 2600 series provides
  fine-grained QoS and the ability to allocate bandwidth
  through increased support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV). This enables
  cloud deployments to provide guaranteed bandwidth with fine-grained metering.