QLogic 8300 Series Advanced Virtualization Using QLogic 8300 Series Adapters - Manual

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Key Findings
Support for increased workloads, acceleration of application performance, and meeting the growing demands placed on the enterprise
data center is key in the selection and deployment of a 1OGbe Converged Network adapter with the right architecture to scale and
support robust databases, mail servers, and secondary storage.
• Enterprise Performance: QLogic delivers double the performance of previous-generation adapters with more than 1 million iOPS
and 4500 MBps bidirectional throughput.
• Application Workloads: QLogic delivers up to 40 percent higher throughput than emulex ® in Oracle ® and Microsoft exchange
Server ™ environments.
• Advanced Virtualization: Support for secure NiC Sr-iOV with more Virtual Functions (VFs) and switch-agnostic NiC Partitioning
(NPar) to enable multi-tenant cloud deployments.
• Superior Business Scalability: the scalable architecture of the QLogic 8300 Series Converged Network adapters provides 75
percent more performance when more VMs are added to VMware
® eSXi 5 than the emulex OCe11102.
• Unparalleled Flexibility: QLogic i/OFlex technology—any i/O, any network from the same physical adapter—allows supporting
Fibre Channel SaNs and 10Gb converged networks (FCoe, iSCSi, and tCP/iP) with the same physical adapter.
Advanced Virtualization Using
QLogic 8300 Series Adapters
Eliminate I/O Bottlenecks for Enterprise Applications
and Accelerate Virtualization Deployments