qlogic end-to-end san

8/14/2019 Qlogic End-to-End SAN

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Building an end-to-end SAN requires you to cope with server connectivity, the switched

abric connecting servers to storage and the network services that run on the SAN. Thats

why deploying end-to-end SAN inrastructure is the intelligent approach. Only QLogic

delivers this end-to-end SAN inrastructure. Only QLogic provides everything you need to

install, congure and operate a world-class SAN, rom host bus adapters (HBAs) to switches

to intelligent storage routers. O course, i you enjoy rolling up your sleeves and wading into

complex, costly integration projects, then choosing separate SAN switch, HBA and routervendors may be your cup o tea. But i you have better things to do with your time and money,

QLogic is or you.

end-to-end

QLogic. The Only Provider oEnd-to-End SAN Inrastructure.

- A uniied network platorm or server connectivity, switchedabrics and abric management

- Avoid complex and costly integration projects with single pointso management

- Higher perormance, pervasive interoperability, simpleinstallation and management

End-to-End

End-to-end SAN infrastructure from QLogic. Our Host Bus Adapters

(HBAs) provide server connectivity throughout the SAN, and SANbox

switches provide the switched fabric that connects servers to

storage and converged fabrics. SANbox Intelligent Storage Routers

connect networks, servers and SAN storage, allowing you to replicate

data across WANs. The vFabric architecture provides network-

based fabric virtualization to simplify management and provide fault-

tolerant SAN isolation. And QLogic Fabric Management provides

command and control over performance, security and uptime of your

storage and converged networks.

From the heart o the datacenter to the workgroup to the edge o the enterprise and even in the increasingly

sophisticated networks o small-to-medium businesses QLogic does more or dynamic businesses

and organizations. Were rst in Fibre Channel stackable switches, and no one sells more Fibre Channel and

iSCSI HBAs than QLogic. Regardless o environment, platorm, operating system, server brand or storage vendor,

QLogic has the solution thats right or you. At a price thats right or your budget, too.


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SANbox Switches

SANbox 9000 Stackable FC Director Switch

SANbox 6000 Intelligent Storage Router

SANbox 5000 Stackable FC Switch

SANbox 1000 Fixed-Port FC Switch

1000. . . . . . . . . . .9000

The new look or powerul,

easy-to-manage abrics.

Core-to-Edge Switches andIntelligent Storage Routers

SANbox

As individual components, QLogic SANbox products provide best-in-class

advantages. Working together as integrated solutions, they not only look better,

they make your SAN perorm better, too. Thats why the entire QLogic SANbox

line won the Windows IT Pro Readers Choice Award. For your switched abric,

you can count on QLogic or exactly the right switch... rom the core to the

distribution layer to the edge. For server and WAN connectivity, QLogic

Intelligent Storage Routers boost utilization while driving down cost and

complexity. And or the holy grail o virtualization, the QLogic architecture will

oer vFabric partitioning and transparent routing in your heterogeneousSAN. By organizing a SAN into individual virtual abrics, you greatly simpliy

management and provide secure SAN isolation. More importantly, you ensure

an open environment that can accommodate multiple vendors, new solutions

and uture fexibility.


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SANbox 1000

SANbox 1000SeriesFixed-Port Fibre Channel Switch

- Plug-and-play installation

- Lowest cost / entry level

- Smallest ootprint possible

1000

Though small in size, SANbox 1000 Series switches

deliver big-time capabilities. With ten ports o 4Gb

throughput, the entry-level SANbox Express 1000

Series allows the smallest business to enjoy the high

perormance and consolidation benets o storage

networking. Wizards guide you through installation and

conguration, so you dont need to hire a SAN expert.

Extensive interoperability testing means it works in

virtually any environment, including yours. I all that

doesnt get you, the price will. These are the most

aordable SAN switches you can buy.

- Quick Start guide or simple and quick installation

- Auto-sensing, sel-conguring ports

- Conguration Wizard to quickly deploy in a ew mouse clicks

- Drag and drop device zoning

- Track conguration changes with Fabric Tracker

- Zoning Wizard or simple device security

- In-band, out-o-band, Telnet and SNMP management access

- Non-disruptive sotware upgrades

- SAN Express support

- Guaranteed tape backups and video streaming with RSCN Suppression

Ideal or small businesses who want the

perormance advantages o storage area

networking, but without cost or complexity

Conguration Wizard sotware tool makes

switch installation and abric scaling simple so

you dont have to be a SAN expert

Two units t side by side

in 1U o rack space

4Gb

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SANbox 5000

SANbox 5000Series

5000

Fibre Channel Stackable Switch

- Stack and scale to 120 ports

- Manage the stack as a single switch

- Migrate to 8Gb at your own pace

Includes Installation

and Conguration Wizards

or easy deployment and

administration

High-perormance solutionup to 8Gb

with 20Gb ISLs handles workgroup or

enterprise loads with ease5000 Series stackable switches support 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb

servers and storage. All connected by the worlds astest

SAN backbone, with inter-switch links (ISLs) that provide

20Gb throughput. SANbox 5000 switches not only deliver

the perormance you need today, but also provide a simple

migration path to 8Gb or the inrastructure o tomorrow.

The simplicity, scalability and cost-saving advantages o

stackable switches have long been amiliar to Ethernet

users now you can get the same benets rom the com-

pany that pioneered stacking technology or Fibre ChannelSANs. Best o all, conguration wizards and intuitive

sotware make installation and management a breeze. Why

pay six gures or a big Director switch you may or may not

eventually grow into? Deploy this pay-as-you grow solu-

tion that never gets ahead o your network or your budget.

Buy only the ports you need to start with,

then add ports and/or stack 6 units to easily

scale up to 120 ports

SANbox 5800 Series

- Stack up to 6 units or 120 available device ports

- 8 to 20 sel-conguring ports to support 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb servers and storage

- 4-port license or non-disruptive eld upgrades

- 4 10Gb always-enabled stacking ports or high-speed inter-switch links without

sacricing valuable device ports

- 20Gb bandwidth on demand double the speed of your ISL fabric at the click

of a mouse!

SANbox 5600 Series

- Stack up to 6 units or 96 available device ports

- 8 to 16 sel-conguring ports to support 1Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb servers and storage

- 4-port license or non-disruptive, eld upgrades

- 4 10Gb stacking ports or high-speed inter-switch links without sacricing valuable

device ports

Optional Enterprise Fabric Suite (EFS), SANdoctor and Fabric Security or advancedmanagement unctionality

Simple migration and scaling with support o 5600 and 5800 Series switches inthe same stack

- Non-disruptive sotware upgrades

- Conguration, Zoning and Extended Distance Wizards to simpliy switch installation

and abric scaling

- Adaptive Trunking on all ports or maximum perormance and ault protection with

no additional sotware ees!

Guaranteed tape backups and video streaming using RSCN suppression

20Gb


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SANbox 6000

6000

SANbox 6000SeriesIntelligent Storage Router

- iSCSI to Fibre Channel connectivity

- Designed or storage applications that

run across WANs

- Optimized Virtualization Connectivity

with iSCSI

With the SANbox 6140, you can turn Fibre Channel

storage into multi-protocol storage. That means that

all those servers on your IP local area network can now

access the data stored on your SAN. And or less than

$100 per server. Or use the SANbox 6142 to expand,

bridge and connect SANs and servers across wide area

IP networks. Bottom line? You reduce the cost o SAN

connectivity, improve ROI on existing SANs, and capture

the benets o storage area networking or the entire

enterprise.

SANbox 6140

- Easy SAN connectivity or all servers via iSCSI-to-FC routing

- Low cost connectivity under $100 per server

- Manage storage on the SAN, not on multiple servers

- Migrate easily rom DAS to SAN

- Turns FC storage into multi-protocol storage

SANbox 6142

- SmartWrite or 60% aster write perormance

- Wizards simpliy installation and conguration

- Support or 62 direct SAN connections over the WAN

- N & NL FC Ports Bridge multi-vendor SAN Fabrics

- CHAP Security and Authentication

6140

Two units t side by side

in 1U o rack space

6142

Ideal or replicating data across a WAN

6140

Connect up to 512 low-cost

servers to Fibre Channel SAN

storage


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SANbox 9000

9000

SANbox 9000SeriesStackable Director Switch

- New class o core switch exclusively or

Open Systems

- Perormance, intelligence and

availability o a Director-class switch

- New HyperStack architecture, compact

orm actor and lowest cost o entry

Finally, theres a new class o core switch thatrepresents a sane alternative to quarter million dollarDirector switches. The SANbox 9000 Series is ideal orcost-sensitive, business-critical, open system environ-ments that require a high-density, high- availabilityswitch platorm or their datacenter core.

The SANbox 9000 Series pioneers a number o indus-try rsts: stackable or simple, cost-eective scalabil-ity, 4U chassis or smaller ootprint and managementtools included at no charge. Best o all, pricing startsat under $100K.

The SANbox 9000 scales to 256 FC ports in an 8Udual chassis module HyperStack conguration withabsolutely no blocking between the two HyperStackmodules.

Intelligent storage routing

and storage virtualization

to pool heterogeneous

storage and replicate data

across WANs

Industrys rst stackable Director

switch or unprecedented, modular

capacity + perormance scalability

New class o ultra-high density,

blazing perormance, 99.999%

availability core switch or

business-critical applications

- Industrys only Director core switch with a compact, 4U chassis module

- HyperStack technology uniquely scales perormance with capacity

- Up to 256 ports in a dual, stacked 9200 chassis module conguration

- 8 slots or SANbox 9000 I/O blades:

- 8Gb or 4Gb FC I/O blades or maximum port density

- 10Gb FC I/O blades or high-perormance ISL trunks

- 6140 iSCSI Intelligent Storage Router modules or iSCSI-FC connectivity

- 6142 FCIP Intelligent Storage Router modules or data replication over WANs

- Deploy in any combination to match your requirements

- Comprehensive suite o enterprise-class management tools included at no

extra charge

- vFabric ready or uture virtual abric partitioning/transparent routing

Designed to the Core


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Do you relish complex, time-consuming integration

projects that swallow your days, then keep you up nights

trying to resolve tricky device driver conficts? No? Then

QLogic is your choice. Other st orage area networking

vendors build one or two o the components that make

up your overall SAN inrastructure. Integrating these

disparate elements into a cohesive system can be

challenging. But QLogic provides everything you need to

create a world-class SAN. So every component works

seamlessly and fawlessly together, right out o the box.

interop

QLogic has more types o

SAN solutions validated by

more OEMs.

Virtually every storage and network vendor on

the ace o the planet validates QLogic or their

solutions. I you use hardware, sotware, platorms,

OSs and/or systems rom the list below, you can

be condent QLogic solutions will work fawlessly

in your environment:

- Apple

- Brocade

- Cisco

- Computer Associates

- Dell

- EMC

- Emulex

- HDS

- HP

- IBM

- LSI

- Microsot

- Quantum

- Red Hat

- Sun

- Symantec

- And many others

Interoperability

Interoperability.

IBM

EMC

Dell

Sun

IBM

HP

Sun

IBM

HP

CiscoCisco

Apple

HP

IBM


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QLogic Adapters

When it comes to best-in-class interoperability, performance, power optimized, reliability and ease-of use,

the top storage area networking companies in the world rely on QLogic adapters. I they trust QLogic to power their

SAN solutions, shouldnt you? QLogic HBAs consistently win top honors and industry awards year ater year. They

comprise the broadest product portolio, supporting every major platorm, OS, protocol and network environment.

And only QLogic backs its HBAs with the industrys best warranty: an unprecedented 5 years on select models. Bot-

tom line? Whatever your environment, QLogic oers the best adapter possible or your exact requirements. Speciy

the adapter that Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Sun and other leaders choose to ship all over the world. Speciy QLogic.

QLogic 8000 Series 10Gb CNA10Gb Converged Network Adapter

QLogic 4000 Series 1Gb iSCSI HBA1Gb iSCSI Host Bus Adapter

QLogic 2500 Series 8Gb FC HBA8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

2500. . . . . . . . . . .8000

Fibre Channel and iSCSI Host Bus Adapters,10Gb Converged Network Adapters

QLogicAdapters

Why settle or anything less than

the #1 selling Fibre Channel and iSCSI HBAs?

QLogic 2400 Series 4Gb FC HBA4Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter


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QLogic 2500Series8Gb FC HBAs

The QLogic 2500 Series is a amily o 8Gb Fibre

Channel-to-PCIe Gen2 HBAs designed or next generation

virtualized datacenters with powerul multi-processor,

multi-core servers. QLogic 2500 Series HBAs are

optimized or virtualization, power, RAS (reliability,

availability, serviceability), security and management to

transorm server connectivity into competitive advantage.

The 2500 Series HBAs provides complete investment

protection by maintaining backward compatibility with

previous Fibre Channel network and PCIe host bus speeds,

and are set apart rom all other 8Gb Fibre Channel HBAs

thanks to two b reakthrough innovations: Dynamic Power

Management and Cool HBA technologies.

8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

- 400,000 IOPS Perormance

- StarPower

and Cool HBA technology- Optimized or virtualization

2500

[ PCI Express x8 ]

[ PCIe Gen2 QLE256

(1 )Sources: IDC, DellOro Group, Gartner

QLogic 2500 Series HBA oers

next generation 8Gb FC technology,

meeting the business requirements

o the enterprise datacenter.

Cool HBA Technology

No additional airfow / ans

required

The QLogic 2500 Series HBA provides

strong Investment protection to support

emerging technologies and standards.

[ PCIe Gen2 QLE256

- 8/4/2 Gbps (auto-negotiation)

- Dynamic power management: the unique ability o the QLogic

2500 to sense the type o PCI Express

bus that is present and consume only the amount o power

necessary to run at ull speed.

- Cool HBA technology is the ability o QLogic products like

2500 HBAs to operate without any air fow (ans).

- HBA inormation, topology, maps, statistics, and graphs

- Virtualization Optimized delivers enhanced security,

Quality-o-Service and enables dynamic provisioning.

- Overlapping Protecion Domains (OPD) on both control and

data paths.

- Management Optimized providing a single common driver

per operating system or three generation o FC HBAs,

or simplied deployment

- RoHS compliant

2500 Series

COOL HBA TEC H N O L O G Y

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2400 Series

2400

[ PCI-X 2.0 ]

E T E LI I LI TY

QLogic 2400Series4Gb FC HBAs

Independent tests prove it: QLogic delivers a better 4Gb

HBA. In simulations o real-world Oracle environments,

benchmarking with Microsot Exchange and network

tests o Windows SANs, QLogic 4Gb HBAs outperormed

the competition in all scenarios. And by signicant mar-

gins (as much as 246%). Whats more, QLogic 4Gb HB As

have the intelligence needed to extend this perormance

advantage to multiple VSANs, satisying the high band-

width requirements o server virtualization, which means

no perormance penalty.

4Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter

- 300,000 IOPS Perormance- Supports virtualization across multiple OSs

- Technology to maximize utilization o

data links

- 4/2/1 Gbps (auto-negotiation)

- Persistent binding

- LUN masking

- 2,048 concurrent logins per port

- HBA and target level ailover

- Loopback and read/write

- HBA inormation, topology, maps, statistics, and graphs

- RoHS compliant

- Out-o-Order Frame Reassembly (OoOFR) reduces congestion and retransmissions

- Multi-ID and N_Port virtualization ready. Allows physical ports to be part o multiple

logical networks- Comprehensive Operating System (OS)

driver support including Windows,

Linux, Solaris, NetWare, and

Mac OS

- Universal boot support manages

multiple hardware platorms and

boot options

- Overlapping protection domains or

continuous protection o internal data paths

[ PCI Express x4 ]

Intelligent storage networking eatures

that redene the enterprise-class HBA,

providing increased data protection,

advanced rame routing, and enterprise-

wide management capabilities

Pervasive interoperability

with all major OSs and

32/64-bit computing

platorms

Simple, point-and-click

installation and conguration

Wizards

4Gb

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4000 Series

4000

[ PCI Express x4 ]

Easy point-and-click installation and

conguration wizards take the mystery

out o storage networking

Broadest support or all

major operating systems,

including Windows, Linux

and Solaris

Storage reliability with iSCSI digests, ECC

Memory, and overlapping data path parity

- Networking and storage unctionality or iSCSI, network attached storage (NAS),

clustering, multimedia, distributed network applications, and web-serving

- Jumbo rames, 802.3x fow control, 802.1p priority service, and 802.1Q VLAN

Ethernet networking

- Low-prole PCI orm actor

- Universal iSCSI SAN boot or true remote storage boot implementations

- Storage reliability with iSCSI digests, ECC memory, and overlapping data path parity

-

JTAG boundary scan, ull scan, and memory built-in sel-test (BIST)- Highly integrated, low power design

- Microsot Windows management interace (MS WMI) compliant or

standards-based management

QLogic 4000Series1Gb iSCSI HBA

I youre not ready to give up the amiliarity o SCSI stor-

age, QLogic iSCSI Adapters are a great way to still bring

the perormance and consolidation benets o a SAN to

your environment. By ofoading the iSCSI and TCP/IP

protocol to the HBA, QLogic eliminates the impact on your

servers CPUs. This makes it possible or your iSCSI stor-

age area network to attain the perormance standards o

direct attach storage (DAS) or a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN,

while improving overall server and storage utilization.

1Gb iSCSI Host Bus Adapter

- Complete iSCSI and TCP/IP ofoad or

enhanced perormance

- Auto-negotiated 100/1000 Mbps line rate

data transer

- PCI Express 2.5GHz and PCI-X 133-MHz

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SANbox 8000Series

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Storage Services Platform

- Platorm or Storage Services

- Virtualization

- CDP

8000 Series

8000

[ PCI Express x8 ]

By ofoading FCoE stack processing

to the adapter, CPU utilization

is reduced, which is important or

successully implementing newserver virtualization technologies

Ethernet and Fibre Channel

drivers or all major OSs that

have been deployed and

battle-hardened in millions

o existing installations.

Pluggable SFP + transceivers allow or

fexible cost vs cabling distance choice

- Persistent Binding

- LUN masking

- Zoning

- Per Priority Pause

- Ethernet jumbo rames

- 802.3x fow control

- 802.1p priority service

- IPv6 ofoad

- TX/RX TCP/IP checksum ofoad

QLogic 8000Series10Gb CNA

QLogic Converged Network Adapters (CNA) enable Fibre

Channel storage and TCP/IP data networking to coexist

on the same Ethernet network. This enables signicant

datacenter cost savings through reduced adapter, switch,

cabling, power, cooling, and management costs, as well

as preserving existing Fibre Channel storage investment.

QLogic 8000 Series CNAs are optimized or virtualization

at 10Gb data rates and capable o handling large num-

bers o virtual machines. By u sing the same QLogic driv-

ers and QLogic management tools already deployed with

the largest installed base o Fibre Channel HBAs in the

world, the QLogic 8000 Series CNAs provide enterprise-

level reliability demanded by todays customers

10Gb Converged Network Adapter

- Data (TCP/IP) and Storage (FCoE) networking

- 10Gb throughput on an Ethernet abric

- Field proven QLogic Fibre Channel drivers

- TX TCP segmentation ofoad

- Compatibility with management utility APIs

- Remote boot via LAN and SAN

- SAN ailover and Ethernet teaming

- PCI Express Gen1 x8

- Support or copper and optical transceivers

- LEDs report link status and beaconing

- SANsurer

sotware


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QLogic Global ServicesWorldwide service/support platorm or maximum uptimeand business continuity.

Whether your company is deploying QLogic products in Baltimore, Bombay or Buenos Aires, QLogic Global Services delivers maximum

uptime and optimum business continuity. In every global theater, you can speak with a knowledgeable customer support engineer. QLogic

Global Services not only delivers peace o mind, but also a variety o world-class training programs t o make sure you and your st a get the

most out o your investment in our products.

Global Services

support

- Services and support or the worldwide user community

- Premium global on-site service programs

- Get the most out o your investment in QLogic products

Training

From online training to the highly acclaimed instructor-led training, QLogic Corporation oers the

industry s most comprehensive SAN and IniniBand training world-wide. The QLogic instruct or-led

training courses eature hands-on learning labs incorporating the most current SAN and IniniBand

technology powered by QLogic.

More than 60% o the time in courses is devoted to practical lab work. Major topics include SAN, IP

Networking and IniniBand concepts, product eatures and unctions, installation, coniguration, and

practical troubleshooting. Courses culminate in proessional certiication. Online training is alsoavailable in both live and sel-paced options. A complete list o our current course oerings is at

www.qlogictraining.com

Service

Global Services provides ve ee-based programs or service levels that best t your availability

requirements and budget parameters. To learn more visit www.qlogic.com/services

Prime Service includes 7x24 call center availability, 4-hour on-site service and hardware replacement.

Choice Service includes 7x24 call center availability, next business day on-site service and hardware replacement.

Select Service includes 5 x 8 call center availability and next business day on-site service and hardware replacement.

Exchange Service includes 5 x 8 call center availability and next business day advanced hardware replacement.

Preferred Service includes 7x24 call center availability and next business day advanced hardware replacement.

Not all service programs are oered on all products.

Warranty

QLogic Global Services backs every QLogic solution with responsive remote cust omer support. In ad-

dition, you have 7x24 access to a support web site that includes FAQs, driver and utilities downloads,

user orums and online service request handling.

Support

QLogic is the only storage area networking company that provides access to support

engineers with years o experience in HBAs, switches, storage, iSCSI, Fibre Channel

storage routers and InniBand

This expert support is available in multiple languages during your work day. QLogics

support is accessible via telephone, email and rom our website, where y ou can quickly

reerence contact details or QLogic Global Services support worldwide.


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