QLogic BR-825 - Manual

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Data Sheet
OVERVIEW
SERVER CONNECTIVITY FOR NEXT-GENERATION DATA CENTERS
Today’s IT professionals face the difficult challenge of reducing data center
cost and complexity while satisfying numerous service-level agreements
(SLAs) and performance requirements. As a result, organizations are
seeking ways to improve server and storage usage, reduce ongoing
operational costs, and increase their flexibility and responsiveness.
Two major industry trends aimed at reducing cost and complexity—
server consolidation and virtualization—have quickly become the highest
priorities for server administrators. Most data centers were designed
to meet basic connectivity needs for physical servers, switches, and
storage. However, consolidation and virtualization drive new connectivity
requirements that legacy solutions are no longer able to meet, such as
streamlined manageability, increased performance, and virtualization
awareness. Performance of the applications under load and manageability
are often critical concerns for organizations deploying server virtualization.
The BR-815 and BR-825 Fibre Channel adapters are a new class of server
connectivity products with unmatched hardware capabilities and unique
software features. This new class of adapters is designed to help IT
organizations deploy and manage end-to-end SAN services across next-
generation data centers.
CENTRALIZED ADAPTER MANAGEMENT
QLogic’s Host Connectivity Manager (HCM) is an easy-to-use adapter
management tool for configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting the
QLogic BR-series adapters. HCM enables server administers to quickly
configure BR-series adapters locally or remotely.
HCM scans the SAN environment to discover visible storage resources
and display target LUNs. A simple to use graphical tree view provides fast
access to the managed Host Bus Adapters, Converged Network Adapters,
ports, and target storage resources. HCM also provides notifications of
various conditions and problems through a user-defined event filter.
In addition to providing a graphical interface, QLogic also provides
a powerful command line interface (BCU CLI), for scripting and task
automation.
For holistic data center wide management, QLogic HCM is tightly
integrated with Brocade
® Network Advisor (BNA) to provide end-to-
end configuration and management of the entire SAN infrastructure.
Administrators can launch QLogic HCM from within BNA to provide single-
pane-of-glass management of QLogic BR-series adapters and Brocade
switches.
• Provides high-performance, line-rate 8Gbps Fibre Channel for
enterprise-class, reliable SAN connectivity
• Maximizes bus throughput with a Fibre Channel-to-PCIe ® Gen2
(x8) bus interface with intelligent lane negotiation
• Delivers unprecedented performance with up to 500,000 IOPS
per port, 1,000,000 IOPS per dual-port adapter, and up to
1600MBps per port, full duplex
• Provides fabric-based boot LUN discovery for simplified SAN boot
configuration for both DAS and diskless server deployments
• Supports NPIV with up to 255 virtual ports
• Provides optimal support for Windows Server 2012, including
support for Virtual Fibre Channel
QLogic BR-815 and BR-825
Fibre Channel Adapters