QLogic 2600 Series vSphere 5 Virtual Server Engine - Manual (Page 12)

QLogic 8300 Series Converged Network Adapters Enable Convergence at the
VM Edge
QLogic Converged Network Adapter solutions leverage core technologies and expertise, including the most
established and proven driver stack in the industry. These adapters are designed for next-generation,
virtualized, and unified data centers with powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers. Optimized to handle
large numbers of VMs and VM-aware network services with support for concurrent NIC, FCoE, and iSCSI
traffic.
One QLogic 8300 Series Converged Network Adapter can be configured for connectivity to an Ethernet
network and to deliver storage networking via Fibre Channel over Ethernet simultaneously. Key features and
benefits include:
 Powerful iSCSI and FCoE hardware offloads improve system performance
 Advanced virtualization technologies supported through secure SR-IOV or through switch- and OS-
agnostic NIC Partitioning (NPAR)
 Combined with QLogic’s Quality of Service (QoS) technology, delivers consistent and guaranteed,
application aware performance in dense VM environments.
Storage Protocol Flexibility
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol allows Fibre Channel
traffic to run over a converged Ethernet network for LAN and SAN traffic
over one wire.
FCoE
For organizations maintaining a parallel LAN and SAN architecture all the way to the server adapter, QLogic offers the QLE8300
Series of adapters supporting 10GbE LAN, NAS and iSCSI SAN traffic, as well as Fibre Channel over Ethernet traffic.
Network Convergence at the Host Server
Adapter and Fabric Convergence Adapter Convergence, Separate Fabrics
Both ports used for LAN, NAS
and SAN traffic over Ethernet
Ethernet ToR Switch Ethernet ToR Switch FCoE ToR Switch
1 port used as FCoE CNA
1 port used as Ethernet NIC