Owner's manual
QLogic 8300 Series Converged Network Adapters Enable Convergence at the
VM Edge
QLogic Converged Network Adapter solutions leverage core
technologies and expertise, including the most established and
proven driver stack in the industry. These adapters are
designed for next-generation, virtualized, and unified data
centers with powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers. They
are optimized to handle large numbers of VMs and VM-aware
network services with support for concurrent NIC, FCoE, and
iSCSI traffic.
One QLogic 8300 Series Converged Network Adapter can be configured for connectivity to an Ethernet
network and to deliver storage networking via Fibre Channel over Ethernet simultaneously. Powerful iSCSI
and FCoE hardware offloads improve system performance, and advanced virtualization technologies are
supported through secure SR-IOV or switch- and OS-agnostic NIC Partitioning (NPAR). NPAR combined with
QLogic’s Quality of Service (QoS) capability provides consistent, guaranteed, and application-aware
performance in dense VM environments.
Lowering the Cost of VM I/O
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol allows Fibre Channel
trac to run over Data Center Ethernet (DCE) for LAN and SAN
convergence on one wire.
FCoE
For organizaons maintaining a parallel LAN and SAN architecture all the way to the server adapter, the company oers the
QLogic 8300 Series Adapters supporng 10GbE LAN, NAS, and iSCSI SAN trac, as well as Fibre Channel trac.
Network Convergence at the VM Server
Adapter and Fabric Convergence Adapter Convergence, Separate Fabrics
Both ports used for
LAN, NAS, and SAN
trac over Ethernet
Ethernet ToR Switch Ethernet ToR Switch
FCoE ToR Switch
1 port used as FCoE CNA
1 port used as Ethernet NIC