Product specifications

5-1
5 QLogic Management PRO
Pack and NPIV Technology
Overview
Increasing server consolidation results in multiple workloads exercising the
capabilities of the host server Fibre Channel adapter. High I/O workloads, such
as Microsoft
®
SQL Server
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data management software or Microsoft Exchange
Server e-mail messaging and collaboration software, may coexist with high
throughput workloads, such as backup, on the same host running Microsoft
Hyper-V virtualization technology.
These multiple workloads can easily overwhelm the capabilities of existing 4-
gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel adapters or even the new 8Gb Fibre Channel
adapters. The result is less than optimum I/O performance and reduced ability of
the administrator to fulfill quality-of-service related service level agreements
(SLAs). Specific scenarios related to suboptimum I/O performance include:
 Multiworkload I/O activity on a physical adapter port
 Multiworkload I/O activity on N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)-enabled virtual
adapter ports
Solution
A PRO Enabled Fibre Channel adapter management pack for VMM2008 that
monitors the adapter‘s physical or NPIV virtual host bus adapter ports (if
enabled) provides the administrator with maximum flexibility in optimizing I/O
performance on the SAN-attached Hyper-V hosts.
The QLogic PRO Pack for VMM2008 R2 will be available at the following web
site beginning November 2009: