QLogic BR-815 and BR-825 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters are server connectivity products with unmatched hardware capabilities and unique software features. These adapters are designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across data centers.
The QLogic BR-815 and BR-825 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters leverage five generations of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design. They leverage the same technology and features that make QLogic the market leader in storage networking, including frame-based trunking for additional performance and availability, and Virtual Channels (VCs) for Quality of Service (QoS) and isolation. This enables organizations to extend essential Virtual Machine (VM)-aware QLogic Advanced Fabric Services into the server.
Industry Standards Compliance QLogic products conform to industry standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures.
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT The QLogic 800 Series Adapter integrates with Brocade® Network Advisor to help simplify SAN and LAN management.
UNMATCHED PERFORMANCE With the recent advances in server technology, including Intel Grantley processors, servers are now capable of running more workloads than ever. This drives higher consolidation and virtualization ratios, with more VMs being deployed per server, which in turn drives unprecedented I/O requirements. The superior performance of QLogic adapters provides the necessary bandwidth and I/O power for the most demanding environments.
Ultimately, this means that businesses of all sizes can scale their virtual server deployments and virtualize high-demanding applications with greater confidence, resulting in better server resource utilization and lower capital and operational costs.
OPTIMIZED FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS In a non-virtualized environment, every application is tied to a physical server, which in turn connects to a physical SAN switch port in a "static" manner. Applying network policies such as zoning or QoS—or monitoring application performance—is simple because the application is permanently associated with the physical port.
With server virtualization, multiple applications reside in a physical server and share a physical SAN port. Furthermore, applications can move across the virtualized server infrastructure, based on a number of user-defined policies, to respond to dynamic business requirements. A virtualization-aware SAN infrastructure and server connectivity solution enables organizations to apply network policies at the VM level. Such policies will then be able to "follow" the application transparently as it moves to a new physical server.
QLogic adapters were built from the ground up with virtualization in mind. They support NPIV with up to 255 virtual ports, and they are qualified with all major hypervisor solutions in the industry. Leveraging NPIV technology, organizations can not only extend QLogic fabric services to the server, but all the way to the VM and application level. Server Application Optimization (SAO) helps IT organizations avoid downtime and more effectively meet their SLAs by allowing them to apply QoS policies with a per-VM granularity and ensure that mission-critical VMs will not be affected in the event of HBA link congestion—even as they move across the infrastructure. SAO also provides isolation to protect individual VMs from the effect of slow-drain devices that would otherwise impact the entire physical server and all applications.
QLogic BR-815 and BR-825 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters are server connectivity products with unmatched hardware capabilities and unique software features. These adapters are designed to help IT organizations deploy and manage end-to-end Storage Area Network (SAN) services across data centers.
The QLogic BR-815 and BR-825 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapters leverage five generations of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design. They leverage the same technology and features that make QLogic the market leader in storage networking, including frame-based trunking for additional performance and availability, and Virtual Channels (VCs) for Quality of Service (QoS) and isolation. This enables organizations to extend essential Virtual Machine (VM)-aware QLogic Advanced Fabric Services into the server.
Industry Standards Compliance
QLogic products conform to industry standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures.
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT
The QLogic 800 Series Adapter integrates with Brocade® Network Advisor to help simplify SAN and LAN management.
UNMATCHED PERFORMANCE
With the recent advances in server technology, including Intel Grantley processors, servers are now capable of running more workloads than ever. This drives higher consolidation and virtualization ratios, with more VMs being deployed per server, which in turn drives unprecedented I/O requirements. The superior performance of QLogic adapters provides the necessary bandwidth and I/O power for the most demanding environments.
Ultimately, this means that businesses of all sizes can scale their virtual server deployments and virtualize high-demanding applications with greater confidence, resulting in better server resource utilization and lower capital and operational costs.
OPTIMIZED FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
In a non-virtualized environment, every application is tied to a physical server, which in turn connects to a physical SAN switch port in a "static" manner. Applying network policies such as zoning or QoS—or monitoring application performance—is simple because the application is permanently associated with the physical port.
With server virtualization, multiple applications reside in a physical server and share a physical SAN port. Furthermore, applications can move across the virtualized server infrastructure, based on a number of user-defined policies, to respond to dynamic business requirements. A virtualization-aware SAN infrastructure and server connectivity solution enables organizations to apply network policies at the VM level. Such policies will then be able to "follow" the application transparently as it moves to a new physical server.
QLogic adapters were built from the ground up with virtualization in mind. They support NPIV with up to 255 virtual ports, and they are qualified with all major hypervisor solutions in the industry. Leveraging NPIV technology, organizations can not only extend QLogic fabric services to the server, but all the way to the VM and application level. Server Application Optimization (SAO) helps IT organizations avoid downtime and more effectively meet their SLAs by allowing them to apply QoS policies with a per-VM granularity and ensure that mission-critical VMs will not be affected in the event of HBA link congestion—even as they move across the infrastructure. SAO also provides isolation to protect individual VMs from the effect of slow-drain devices that would otherwise impact the entire physical server and all applications.
