Huawei Embraces QLogic 16Gb FC Connectivity

QLogic Corp. announced that its FlexSuite technology is the exclusive 16Gb Gen 5 FC connectivity solution for Huawei OceanStor storage systems.

The addition of Gen 5 connectivity enables Huawei customers to deploy Gen 5 SANs in combination with Huawei RH Series rack servers and X Series data center servers, also powered by FlexSuite technology. Continued collaboration between

“Huawei offers a diverse portfolio of OceanStor solutions that provides high-performance, highly reliable and scalable storage for HA clustering, big data and cloud storage environments,” said Fan Ruiqi, president, Huawei storage product line. “With end-to-end Gen 5 FC connectivity from QLogic, we can deliver high bandwidth server and storage networking solutions that can meet the demanding requirements of performance-intensive applications in today’s enterprise.“

“QLogic continues to expand its presence in China, and our level of collaboration with Huawei,” said Vikram Karvat, VP of products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “Gen 5 adoption continues to ramp across the industry and QLogic Gen 5 FC solutions provide the resiliency and performance that allow Huawei customers to speed up time-to-deployment and more easily manage their OceanStor storage solutions in today’s advanced computing environments.“

Huawei Gen 5 FC solutions are designed to tackle high-bandwidth, I/O-intensive applications with reliability. Gen 5 FC connectivity also allows enterprises to improve price-performance, reduce power consumption-per-gigabit and support more VMs per server. Huawei Gen 5 FC solutions eliminate throughput bottlenecks from host to storage, giving users application performance and I/O for advanced computing environments. All Gen 5 FC solutions are backward-compatible with 8Gb and 4Gb FC networks,