QLogic 10000 Series DataSheet - Manual

Data Sheet
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The QLogic ® FabricCache™ 10000 Series Adapter is an industry-first,
integrated hardware solution that combines best-in-class Fibre Channel
SAN connectivity, backed by enterprise-class PCIe
® Flash to increase
application performance and decrease latency through I/O data caching.
The QLogic FabricCache Adapter is a PCIe-based adapter that caches
SAN data on a PCIe Flash card to accelerate server I/O access. The 10000
Series Adapter offloads caching to adapter hardware, which accelerates
I/O and provides shared caching for clustered, virtualized, and distributed
workloads across the data center. The 10000 Series Adapter also enables
simple deployment by means of a single driver and management model
that reduces software stack complexity.
Industry FIrst
The 10000 Series FabricCache Adapter is an industry-first, patent-pending,
SAN connectivity product that accelerates data throughput to dramatically
improve application performance by using industry-standard PCIe Flash as
its data cache.
Built on Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter, caching, and I/O management
technology that has been hardened and proven in the enterprise, QLogic
has created an adapter that transparently caches SAN data to QLE10000
Flash. The caching accelerates server I/O access and uniquely allows
servers to pool and share access to the cache. Today’s enterprise
applications demand faster I/O access because they are clustered and
virtualized, and have distributed workloads across the data center. The
QLogic FabricCache Adapter uniquely addresses these needs by providing
shared, cached data and adapter clustering, which in turn maintains cache
coherence, high availability, and optimal allocation of cache resources.
CaChIng OFFlOad tO adapter hardware
The 10000 Series Adapter controls all caching and Flash cache
management in the adapter hardware, with zero changes as a standard
Fibre Channel adapter in the server. This control results in a solution
that is application-transparent, as well as infrastructure and storage
subsystemagnostic. The 10000 Series Adapter caching offload enables
faster application response time, provides lower latencies for data access,
and results in increased productivity.
By providing full hardware offload, QLogic adapters deliver significant
performance benefits and remove the protocol processing overhead from
the CPU. Offloading conserves precious CPU cycles for applications and
services, and it maximizes server virtualization ratios and saves RAM.
OVerVIew
•Simplified caching implementation uses a single driver model in the
OS software stack.
•Caching offload to adapter hardware accelerates performance without
consuming additional server memory or CPU cycles, while minimizing
the quantity of I/Os processed in the server.
•Hot data located close to the application increases workload
performance and throughput, while improving storage performance
and utilization.
•Provisioning cache data pools across multiple servers allows clustered
applications to seamlessly share the cache.
•Seamlessly integrates cache data in the server with the SAN.
•Uses QLogic’s proven Fibre Channel 8Gbps-to-PCI Express ®
technology.
10000 Series
QLogic FabricCache Adapter