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Overview

The 8300 Series Controllers are QLogic’s fourth generation of Converged Network Controllers. They boast industry-leading native Fibre

Channel performance—achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low CPU utilization with full

hardware offloads. In addition, the controllers support simultaneous LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and

iSCSI) traffic at line rate, 10Gbps Ethernet (GbE) speeds. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s

powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.

QLogic’s end-to-end data integrity with overlapping protection domain (OPD) and support for the T10 data integrity field (DIF) makes the

8300 Series Controllers ideal for file- and block-based storage controller applications. The ability to support either 16Gb Fibre Channel

or 10GbE and multiple protocols simultaneously on the same hardware offers multi-tenancy flexibility, which is ideal for private and

public cloud environments.

8300 Series

Dual-Personality 16Gb Fibre Channel/10GbE to PCIe

Converged Network Controllers

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Data Sheet 8300 Series Dual-Personality 16Gb Fibre Channel/10GbE to PCIe Converged Network Controllers Overview The 8300 Series Controllers are QLogic’s fourth generation of Converged Network Controllers. They boast industry-leading native Fibre Channel performance—achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low CPU utilization with full hardware offloads.
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Data Sheet Highlights •• 10GbE per-port maximum throughput for high bandwidth converged storage (SAN) and networking traffic, as well as support for linerate native 16Gb Fibre Channel traffic on both ports. •• OPD to ensure a high level of reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus. •• Complete investment protection for legacy 8Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure.
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Data Sheet Host Bus Interface Specifications Fibre Channel and FCoE Specifications •• Integrated 2MB SRAM Bus Interface Logins •• PCIe ×4 Gen3, PCIe ×8 Gen2, PCIe ×8 Gen1 •• Support for 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active exchanges Host Interrupts •• INTx and MSI-X Port Virtualization Compliance •• N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) •• PCI Express Base Specification 3.0 (v1.0), PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification rev 2.0, PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification rev. 1.
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