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Data Sheet

OVERVIEW

To keep pace with dynamic and growing business demands, many

organizations are transitioning their data centers to private cloud

architectures to leverage the many benets of virtualization. This

approach enables them to consolidate, scale, simplify, and automate

their IT resources to increase business agility while reducing capital and

operational expenditures. The QLogic BR-1860, designed for today’s data

centers, simplies the journey to the private cloud.

Server virtualization continues to be a key technology for enabling private

cloud architectures. Organizations worldwide are taking virtualization to

the next level, increasing virtual machine (VM) densities and virtualizing

mission-critical workloads. This trend is increasing demand for shared

storage and atter, more scalable networks—as well as higher bandwidth

and I/O capacity for client/server and storage networks.

To help address that demand, the BR-1860 Fabric Adapter meets all

the connectivity needs of cloud-enabled data centers while providing

unmatched performance, application-aware services, unied

management, and reduced cost and complexity. It is the simplest, most

exible, and most powerful server connectivity adapter designed to extend

fabric services to VMs and applications in highly demanding virtualized

environments (Figure 1).

A SINGLE ADAPTER FOR ALL CONNECTIVITY NEEDS

Available in single-port and dual-port models, the BR-1860 features

QLogic AnyIO technology, making it the industry’s rst multiprotocol

server connectivity product designed for highly virtualized, cloud-enabled

data centers. The BR-1860 is a new class of adapters that combines a

Gen 5 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter with a 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE)

Converged Network Adapter and a NIC to support native Fibre Channel,

TCP/IP, data center bridging (DCB) Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet

(FCoE), and iSCSI running simultaneously in a single product.

• Provides a class of adapters that meets all Fibre Channel and

Ethernet connectivity needs in cloud-enabled data centers

• Supports Gen 5 Fibre Channel and 10GbE DCB connectivity for

TCP/IP, iSCSI, and FCoE with QLogic AnyIO

technology

• Consolidates I/O devices and optimizes QoS with QLogic vFLink

technology

• Enhanced virtualization support, including Windows Server

2012 Virtual Fibre Channel and network QoS (bandwidth

management) functionality

• Centralized management through single pane-of-glass by

integration with Brocade

Network Advisor

QLogic BR-1860

Fabric Adapter

Gen 5 Fibre Channel is the purpose-built, data center-proven network

infrastructure for storage, delivering unmatched reliability, simplicity,

and 16Gbps performance. The BR-1860 Fabric Adapter with Gen5

Fibre Channel unleashes the full potential of high-density server

virtualization, cloud architectures, and next-generation storage.

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Data Sheet QLogic BR-1860 Fabric Adapter •• Provides a class of adapters that meets all Fibre Channel and Ethernet connectivity needs in cloud-enabled data centers •• Supports Gen 5 Fibre Channel and 10GbE DCB connectivity for TCP/IP, iSCSI, and FCoE with QLogic AnyIO® technology •• Consolidates I/O devices and optimizes QoS with QLogic vFLink technology •• Enhanced virtualization support, including Windows Server® 2012 Virtual Fibre Channel and network QoS (bandwidth management) functionality •• Centrali
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QLogic BR-1860 Data Sheet I/O Virtualization (IOV) and Virtual Switching The BR-1860 supports QLogic virtual Fabric Link (vFLink) technology, which partitions a single adapter into as many as eight virtual adapters called vNICs. This is done in hardware by using multiple physical functions (PFs) at the PCIe® bus level, appearing as separate physical devices at the OS level.
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QLogic BR-1860 Data Sheet VM1 VM2 VM3 VF Driver VF Driver VF Driver Hypervisor VF1 VF2 VF3 ..... • Integration into Brocade's Brocade Network Advisor (BNA): Provides customizable health and performance dashboard views to pinpoint problems faster, simplify SAN configuration and management, and reduce operational costs. VMn VF Driver • Critical diagnostic and monitoring capabilities: Helps ensure early problem detection and recovery. PF Driver .....
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QLogic BR-1860 Data Sheet Through its support of Windows Server 2012 policy-based QoS, the BR-1860 enables administrators to specify network bandwidth controls based on application type, users, and servers for the physical network. In addition, support of Hyper-V QoS enables cloud hosting providers and enterprises to deliver predictable network performance for multiple types of traffic for VMs using BR-1860 adapters running in DCB mode.
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QLogic BR-1860 Fibre Channel Specifications Data Rate •• 14.025Gbps (1600MBps); 8.5Gbps (800MBps); 4.25Gbps (400MBps); 2.125Gbps (200MBps) auto-sensing (per port); full duplex Performance •• Over 500,000 IOPS per port (1,000,000 IOPS per dual-port adapter) Topology •• Point-to-point (N_Port), switched fabric (N_Port), FC-AL, FC-AL2 Key Features •• Dynamic fabric provisioning (DFP). Fibre Channel fabric assigned worldwide name (FA-PWWN) •• D_Port.
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QLogic BR-1860 Data Sheet NOTICES Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) is a management solution from Brocade that enables unified management across SAN and IP networks. Brocade Server Application Optimization (SAO) is an optional feature available on Brocade switches. SAO works with QLogic BR series adapters to enhance application performance and VM scalability. Licenses for Brocade's BNA and SAO products can be purchased separately through Brocade Corporation.