QLogic BR-1860 Fabric - Manual

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Data Sheet
OVERVIEW
To keep pace with dynamic and growing business demands, many
organizations are transitioning their data centers to private cloud
architectures to leverage the many benefits of virtualization. This
approach enables them to consolidate, scale, simplify, and automate
their IT resources to increase business agility while reducing capital and
operational expenditures. The QLogic BR-1860, designed for today’s data
centers, simplifies the journey to the private cloud.
Server virtualization continues to be a key technology for enabling private
cloud architectures. Organizations worldwide are taking virtualization to
the next level, increasing virtual machine (VM) densities and virtualizing
mission-critical workloads. This trend is increasing demand for shared
storage and flatter, more scalable networks—as well as higher bandwidth
and I/O capacity for client/server and storage networks.
To help address that demand, the BR-1860 Fabric Adapter meets all
the connectivity needs of cloud-enabled data centers while providing
unmatched performance, application-aware services, unified
management, and reduced cost and complexity. It is the simplest, most
flexible, and most powerful server connectivity adapter designed to extend
fabric services to VMs and applications in highly demanding virtualized
environments (Figure 1).
A SINGLE ADAPTER FOR ALL CONNECTIVITY NEEDS
Available in single-port and dual-port models, the BR-1860 features
QLogic AnyIO technology, making it the industry’s first multiprotocol
server connectivity product designed for highly virtualized, cloud-enabled
data centers. The BR-1860 is a new class of adapters that combines a
Gen 5 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter with a 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Converged Network Adapter and a NIC to support native Fibre Channel,
TCP/IP, data center bridging (DCB) Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE), and iSCSI running simultaneously in a single product.
• Provides a class of adapters that meets all Fibre Channel and
Ethernet connectivity needs in cloud-enabled data centers
• Supports Gen 5 Fibre Channel and 10GbE DCB connectivity for
TCP/IP, iSCSI, and FCoE with QLogic AnyIO ® technology
• Consolidates I/O devices and optimizes QoS with QLogic vFLink
technology
• Enhanced virtualization support, including Windows Server ®
2012 Virtual Fibre Channel and network QoS (bandwidth
management) functionality
• Centralized management through single pane-of-glass by
integration with Brocade ® Network Advisor
QLogic BR-1860
Fabric Adapter
Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built, data center-proven network
infrastructure for storage, delivering unmatched reliability, simplicity,
and 16Gbps performance. The BR-1860 Fabric Adapter with Gen 5
Fibre Channel unleashes the full potential of high-density server
virtualization, cloud architectures, and next-generation storage.