White paper – QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 FC HBAs Double Performance and Flexibility User Manual
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QLogic FlexSuite Adapter Advantages
QLogic 2600 Series FlexSuite adapters offer unprecedented advantages.
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the Ultimate in Performance
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Unparalleled Flexibility
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investment Protection
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Simplified Management
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Leadership, Confidence, and trust
More specifically, the benefits are as follows.
the Ultimate in Performance
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1.2 million iOPS
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PCie 3.0
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enhanced server scalability
Unparalleled Flexibility
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QLogic i/OFlex technology—any i/O, any network (dual personality)
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industry’s only adapter supporting fully offloaded concurrent
multiprotocol support (QLogic ConvergeFlex
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technology)
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Granular quality of service (QoS) through QLogic VMflex™ technology
(NPiV and NiC partitioning)
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Optimized for virtualization
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Cloud computing deployment—provides granular QoS and bandwidth
allocation
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heterogeneous infrastructure
investment Protection
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QLogic SecureFlex technology ensures highest data integrity (with
overlapping protection domains (OPD) and t10 ready)
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Backward compatible—auto-negotiate 16/8/4Gb Fibre Channel (same
stack)
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Future proofed for converged networking (FCoe, iSCSi, and
tCP/iP)
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Multiprotocol
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Qualified with major OeMs
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Certified with more than 10,000 products
Simplified Management
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Pervasive interoperability—any form factor, any protocol, any operating
system, any hypervisor
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Simplified adapter management
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QConvergeConsole
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(QCC) GUi and CLi
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QCC vCenter™ plug-in
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Leadership, Confidence, and trust
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Proven field-hardened stack
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13 million Fibre Channel/FCoe ports deployed in data centers
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eighth consecutive year of Fibre Channel adapter market share
leadership (2011)
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reliability, availability, and serviceability (raS)
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industry’s longest warranty—5 years
QLogic’s High Availability Architecture
QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel architecture continues
to provide complete port-level isolation across its dual-port aSiC.
the architecture, unlike the one from its nearest competitor, provides
an independent function, firmware image, transmit/receive buffers,
on chip CPU, DMa channels, and firmware image for each port. this
enables complete port-level isolation, eliminates errors and firmware
crashes to propagate across both ports, and provides deterministically
predictive and scalable performance across both ports. this is extremely
essential for enterprise data centers—assuring five nines availability for
mission-critical applications.
QLogic Outperforms Emulex
the QLogic Common Performance test Platform is used to provide
performance benchmark results; providing it administrators and system
architects visibility into product performance in a clear and unbiased
manner. QLogic performs testing to evaluate adapter capabilities and
adapter performance in real-world enterprise application environments.
QLogic has compared the out-of-box performance of its 2600 Series
16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapter with the emulex LPe16000, using the
test setup described in the QLogic Technology Brief, QLogic Platform and
Methodology for Product Evaluations
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. the results of this testing, which
emulates real-world Oracle and Microsoft exchange Server
workloads
using the QLogic Common test Platform, are presented in this white paper.
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For the QLogic Technology Brief, QLogic Platform and Methodology for Product Evaluations, visit the following site
Select “adapters.” Under Product Literature, select
“technology Briefs.”