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Fibre Channel Adapters

QLogic 2500 Series

The QLE256x 8Gb Adapters are the highest-performing adapters in QLogic’s industry-leading Fibre Channel technology portfolio. The adapters not only meet the needs of today’s demanding data center requirements by providing power and virtualization optimization, but also offer investment protection by being backwards compatible with previous generations of adapters, including 4Gb and 2Gb technology.

QLogic 2400 Series

The QLx246x 4Gb Adapters deliver unprecedented levels of performance, scalability, and reliability. The adapters offer unique networking functionality, including Intelligent Interleaved DMA (iiDMA), Dual Read DMA (DRDMA), and Overlapping Protection Domains (OPD). For virtualization at the Fibre Channel port level, QLogic 4Gb adapters support N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) by allowing multiple N_Port IDs to share the same physical Fibre Channel port.

 Intelligent Ethernet Adapters

QLogic 3200 Series

The QLogic 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters boast industry-leading networking performance, with dual-port throughput equaling approximately 40Gbps. The adapters are designed for use in virtualized environments, with support for industry-standard SR-IOV and QLogic’s unique NIC Partitioning feature. NIC Partitioning allows a user to divide a physical Ethernet port into four virtual ports with flexible, user-defined allocation of 10Gbps bandwidth.

QLogic 3100 Series

The QLogic 3100 Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters provide blazing-fast 10GbE Ethernet connectivity to host servers, eliminating performance bottlenecks for I/O-intensive applications. Numerous stateless offloads reduce server CPU utilization across all operating systems, leading to faster server application performance and higher levels of server virtualization.

QLogic 3000 Series

The QLogic 3000 Series of Intelligent Ethernet Adapters includes the QLE3044, which features four 1GbE ports with industry-standard RJ45 connectors. The QLE3044 is a high-performance adapter that supports numerous stateless offloads for reducing server CPU utilization and increasing overall system performance.

 iSCSI Adapters

QLogic 4000 Series

QLogic’s 4000 Series 1GbE iSCSI Adapters provide SAN connectivity over Ethernet and TCP/IP network infrastructures. Both the iSCSI and TCP/IP processing functions are performed on the adapters and not on the host server CPU. By offloading these functions to the QLogic 4000 Series Adapters, more host server CPU processing power is available to server applications, thus increasing the overall iSCSI SAN performance.

 InfiniBand Adapters

QLogic 7300 Series

High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions have used InfiniBand networks to meet the most demanding application requirements needs of the most demanding set of applications and grand challenges. The QLogic 7300 Series offers single-port and dual-port 40Gbps InfiniBand Adapters.

 Converged Network Adapters

QLogic 8200 Series

The 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters support concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE, iSCSI) traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link. The adapters showcase industry-leading LAN networking performance, full hardware offload for FCoE and iSCSI protocol processing, and an extensive set of features that enhance system virtualization. In addition, the 8200 Series Adapters leverage QLogic’s existing Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers, making the adapters the most dependable and battle-hardened Converged Network Adapters on the market.

QLogic 8100 Series

The 8100 Series Converged Network Adapters support concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE) traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link. The 8100 Series Adapters support full hardware offload for FCoE protocol processing, which frees up the server CPU to perform other tasks like running applications or host Virtual Machines. The 8100 Series Adapters also support iSCSI using software initiators available from most operating systems.”

 Switches

 Fibre Channel Switches

QLogic 9000 Series

The QLogic Stackable Modular Fibre Channel Switch is ideal for cost sensitive, business-critical, open system environments that require a high-density, high-availability switch platform for their data center core. The QLogic 9000 Series pioneers a number of industry firsts: stackable for simple, cost-effective scalability, 4U chassis for smaller footprint, and management tools included at no charge.

QLogic 5000 Series

The QLogic 5000 Series Stackable Switches support 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb servers and storage – all connected by the world’s fastest SAN backbone, with Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) that provide 20Gb throughput. The switches not only deliver the performance you need today, but also provide a simple migration path to 8Gb for the infrastructure of tomorrow.

QLogic 3000 Series

The QLogic 3000 Series offers the simplest and most affordable way to share the capacity of Fibre Channel storage devices among multiple servers. Maximize the value of your RAID and tape library investments with simultaneous direct server connections via a state-of-the-art Storage Area Network.

QLogic 1000 Series

Though small in size, QLogic 1000 Series Switches deliver big-time capabilities. With ten ports of 4Gb throughput, the entry-level QLogic 1000 Series allows the smallest organizations to enjoy the high performance and consolidation benefits of storage networking.

Enterprise Fabric Management Tools

QLogic Enterprise Fabric Suite is a suite of tools for setup, configuration, fabric management, fabric monitoring, performance monitoring, and configuring the extended distance capability on QLogic Fibre Channel Switches. Manage an unlimited number of switches and an unlimited number of fabrics from a single application, all for one price.

 InfiniBand Switches

QLogic 12000 Series

The QLogic 12000 InfiniBand Switch Series of products adapts to a wide range of customer High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Based on the QLogic TrueScale ASIC platform, these advanced 40Gbps QDR InfiniBand switches offer the highest port count, the highest port density, and the most flexibility for organizations with HPC needs that are continually evolving.

InfiniBand Fabric Suite

QLogic's InfiniBand Fabric Suite 6.0 is a powerful management solution that enables users to obtain the highest fabric performance, the highest communications efficiency, and the lowest management costs for HPC clusters of any size.

 Routers

 Intelligent Storage Routers

QLogic 6200 Series

The QLogic 6200 Series of Intelligent Storage Routers provides a powerful and cost-effective protocol connectivity tool for medium-sized businesses up to the largest enterprises. The router allows cross-protocol routing for 8Gb Fibre Channel and 10GbE/1GbE iSCSI. The QLogic 6240, 6250, and 6260 Series Routers can be used to provide multi-protocol for host connectivity to storage systems, SAN-over-WAN connectivity for business continuity and disaster recovery, and a flexible data migration solution.

QLogic 6100 Series

With the QLogic 6140, you can turn Fibre Channel storage into multi-protocol storage. That means that all of those servers on your IP LAN can now access the data stored on your SAN. And, best of all, the cost is less than $100 per server. In addition, you can use the QLogic 6142 to expand, bridge and connect SANs and servers across wide area IP networks.

ASICs

 Fibre Channel Controllers

QLogic 2500 Series

The QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel Controller offers next generation technology while providing investment protection and seamless integration into existing 4 and 2 Gbps storage area networks.

 Converged Network Controllers

QLogic 8200 Series

The QLogic 8200 Series Converged Network Controllers support concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE, iSCSI) traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link. The controllers showcase industry-leading LAN networking performance, full hardware offload for TCP/IP, FCoE, and iSCSI protocol processing, and an extensive set of features that enhance system virtualization.

QLogic 8100 Series

The 8100 Series Converged Network Controllers support concurrent LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (FCoE) traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link. The 8100 Series Controllers support full hardware offload for FCoE protocol processing, which frees up the server CPU to perform other tasks like running applications or hosting virtual machines. In addition, the controllers support iSCSI using software initiators available from most operating systems.