User`s guide

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1 Product Overview
Functionality and Features
This section provides the following information:
 Functional Description
 Features
 Supported Operating Systems
Functional Description
The QLE2670/QLE2672 adapters (referred to as the 2600 Series Adapters) are
QLogic’s sixth generation Fibre Channel Adapters. They boast industry-leading
native Fibre Channel performance—achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre
Channel throughput—at extremely low CPU use with full hardware offloads. This
extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful
multiprocessor, multicore servers. In addition, support for powerful virtualization
features make this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent
I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs).
Features
The 2600 Series Adapters provide the following features:
 Device management for SAN
 Connectivity to 16Gb/8Gb/4Gb Fibre Channel networks
 Greater than 500,000 IOPS per port
 PCIe Gen3 4 and PCIe Gen2 8
 Full hardware offload for the Fibre Channel protocol
 Message-signaled interrupts (MSI-X) and legacy interrupts (INT-X)
 NPIV
 Boot from SAN
 Several advanced management features for 2600 Series Adapters:
 QCC (GUI and CLI) is available if you are running Windows or Linux.
 The QLogic QConvergeConsole Plug-in for VMware vCenter Server is
available if you are running VMware ESX/ESXi.
 Conversion to 10GbE Converged Network Adapter (future firmware
upgrade)