QLogic 16Gb FC Adapters Available Through EMC
2600 series
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 21, 2013 at 2:48 pm
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.