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Figure 1. Same Hardware: Any I/O – Any Network
Efficient I/O Provisioning Using Quality of Service
One of the key areas for a successful server virtualization deployment is
providing tunable network resources to meet Service Level Agreement
(SLA) requirements for individual applications without wasting bandwidth
due to over provisioning. QLogic allows dynamic reconfiguration of
bandwidth using QLogic’s VMware vCenter plug-in. The business benefit
of applying quality of service (QoS) is a reduction in I/O bottlenecks and
the ability to support a broad spectrum of workloads. QLogic’s SR-IOV
implementation reduces I/O emulation overhead and allows I/O hardware
to be assigned directly to VMs. This gives the ability to dedicate bandwidth
for VMs and associated applications, which conserves PCIe
®
slots in all
server environments. QLogic’s enhanced QoS implementation benefits
higher density compute environments by guaranteeing bandwidth for
business-critical applications and providing oversubscription capability.
QLogic FlexSuite Adapter Advantages
QLogic 8300 Series FlexSuite Adapters offer unprecedented advantages.
• The Ultimate in Performance
• Advanced virtualization
• Unparalleled flexibility
• Investment protection
• Simplified management
• Leadership, confidence, and trust
More specifically, the benefits are as follows:
The Ultimate in Performance
• 1 million IOPS
• PCI Express Gen3 x4
• Enhanced capabilities for target mode
• Enhanced server scalability
Advanced Virtualization
• Full support for networking SR-IOV
• Secure SR-IOV for multi-tenant cloud deployments
• Switch-agnostic NIC Partitioning (NPAR)
• Granular QoS control
• Up to 128 VFs per adapter
Unparalleled Flexibility
• QLogic I/OFlex technology—any I/O, any network (dual personality)
• Industry’s only adapter supporting fully offloaded concurrent
multi-protocol support (QLogic ConvergeFlex
®
technology)
• Granular QoS through QLogic VMflex™ technology (NPIV and NIC
partitioning)
• Heterogeneous infrastructure
Investment Protection
• QLogic SecureFlex™ technology ensures highest data integrity (with
overlapping protection domains (OPD) and T10 ready)
• Simultaneous multi-protocol converged networking (FCoE, iSCSI, and
TCP/IP)
• Certified with more than 10,000 products
Simplified Management
• Pervasive interoperability—any form factor, any protocol, any operating
system, any hypervisor
• Simplified adapter management
– QConvergeConsole
®
(QCC) GUI and CLI
– QCC vCenter plug-in
– Support for industry-standard management APIs
Leadership, Confidence, and Trust
• Proven field-hardened stack
• 13 million Fibre Channel/FCoE ports deployed in data centers
• Ninth consecutive year of Fibre Channel Adapter market share
leadership (2012)
• Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
• Industry’s longest warranty—5 years
Optimizing
Virtualization
Flexible Convergence
Resilient Data Center
Powering Cloud