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Virtual I/O Products

With QLogic’s Virtual I/O Cards (VIC) you are able to connect Infiniband clusters to either 4Gb Fibre Channel SANs or 10Gb Ethernet Networks. 


 
QLogic’s Virtual I/O Cards (VIC)

With QLogic’s Virtual I/O Controllers (VIC) you are able to connect Infiniband clusters to 4Gb Fibre Channel SANs and/or 10Gb Ethernet Networks. VICs can be added to any of the QLogic SilverStorm 9000 product family chassis. The modular design allows the fabric to be configured based on the actual number of ports required.
  


 
Key Features
  • Each Fibre Channel VIC (FVIC) comes configured with 8 1/2/4Gbs Fibre Channel ports and 10 Double Data Rate (DDR) 20Gbs InfiniBand ports.
  • Each Ethernet VIC (EVIC) comes configured with 2 10Gbs Ethernet ports and 10 DDR 20Gbs Infiniband ports.

 

 

Technical Specifications
Fiber Channel VIC Module
  • Supports up to 128 Virtual HBA ports per module
  • Automatic sensing of port type: 1/2/4 Gb/s
  • Automatic port and module fail-over
  • Supports load balancing and port aggregation
  • LUN mapping and masking features
  • SCSI-SRP, SCSI-FCP, and FC-PH-3 compliant
  • Ethernet VIC Module
  • Supports up to 1,150 Virtual NIC ports per module
  • Automatic port and module fail-over
  • Port load balancing and aggregation
  • TCP/UDP and IP header checksum offload and host checking
  • Jumbo frames supported
  • 802.1Q VLAN support
  • 802.1p Priority Queuing/Scheduling (802.1p)
  • Interoperability
    IBTA 1.0a, 1.1 and 1.2 compliant


     
     
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