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QLogic 16Gb FC Adapters Available Through EMC

2600 series

QLogic
Corporation
announced that its 2600 Series 16Gb FC adapters are available
through the EMC Select program for a range of EMC Corporation storage platforms.

EMC customers can now implement QLogic
16Gb FC technology for storage environments.

The EMC version of the QLogic 2600 Series
adapter is listed on the EMC Support Matrix (ESM) and qualified through the EMC
E-Lab with VMAX, VNX and VPLEX storage arrays. The adapter is
pre-configured and designed for quick implementation within
these storage environments.

"For
well over a decade QLogic has provided high-performance FC solutions for EMC
and its customers,
" said Amit Vashi, VP marketing, host solutions group,
QLogic. "QLogic 2600 Series adapters
allow customers to accelerate performance of bandwidth-hungry enterprise
applications such as video streaming, databases, backup and online transaction
processing. Fully compatible with 8Gb and 4Gb products, QLogic 16Gb FC
solutions protect organizations’ IT investments.
"

"Today’s
bandwidth-intensive environments require higher levels of service while keeping
costs and power usage down,
" said Deirdre Wassell, director of
solutions marketing, EMC. "The
increased I/O and bandwidth of 16Gb FC will result in improved application
performance for more Exchange mailboxes and VMs, as well as faster database
processing and reduced backup times.
"

2600 Series 16Gb FC adapters
consist of several compelling attributes:

  • Performance: The
    2600 Series handles three times the transactions (1.2 million IOPs) and double
    the throughput (6,000MB/s) of 8Gb FC, increasing application performance and
    cutting backup times in half. They are optimized for
    performance in next-generation servers with support for the new PCIe 3.0 bus
    architecture.
  • HA Architecture: QLogic’s  port-level isolation architecture adds an additional layer of reliability and
    security, and ensures that if one port should encounter issues, the second,
    isolated port will continue to function securely and without interruption. This
    enables the 2600 series to offer secure, deterministically predictive
    and scalable dual-port performance.
  • Optimized for Virtualization: The
    2600 series provides a scalable architecture for higher VM deployment per
    server while still providing full offload capabilities with increased bandwidth
    allocation to each VM. The adapters enhance VM mobility
    by increasing availability to meet peak-demand workloads. The 2600
    Series includes support for features such as virtual FC (vFC) in
    Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and provides dynamic setting of fine-grained
    Quality of Service (QoS) on a per VM basis.
  • Management: QLogic QConvergeConsole
    (QCC) provides a single pane of glass to remotely manage all FC adapters and
    10GbR converged network adapters throughout the network. It is integrated in VMware vCenter. In addition to managing the
    QLogic adapters, it simplifies the physical and logical topology mapping of the
    entire virtual SAN.
  • Leadership, confidence and trust: The
    underlying QLogic FC stack is proven in more than 13 million ports shipped to
    enterprise data centres around the world.
  • Interoperability: QLogic
    solutions are tested and interoperable with more than 10,000 industry products.
    QLogic’s networking stack includes pervasive support for the leading OS
    platforms and hypervisors including Windows Server with Hyper-V, VMware ESX/ESXi,
    Red Hat and SUSE Linux (including KVM), Solaris and 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.
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