Data Center Networking, Network Convergence, SAN Storage |QLogic Solutions

Data centers are being pushed to their limits by a number of recent advances in infrastructure technologies. The escalating deployments of servers with multi-core processors, aggregation of applications on virtualized servers, convergence of data and storage infrastructures, along with demanding, high traffic applications, such as database clusters, video-on-demand, and other mission critical, high throughput applications are driving the need for high-bandwidth networking infrastructures and faster server I/O solutions.


Optimizing Data Center Resources High throughput applications are driving the need for high-bandwidth networking infrastructures and faster server I/O solutions based upon 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE).	A Unified Data Center Fabric Convergence of the storage and data networking infrastructure complements the benefits of server virtualization and facilitates the evolution to a utility-based IT operation.	Increasing Resource Utilization Virtualization increases resource utilization, lowers costs, increases flexibility, and provides the ability for IT to respond to elastic demand for resources as IT transitions to a highly effective, service-oriented operation.


QLogic Enhances I/O in Intel Xeon E5 Processor The new Intel® motherboards are driving expanded requirements for network I/O infrastructure. The QLogic product portfolio complements Intel's portfolio by enabling increased compute density and improved I/O performance.	Completing the Journey As IT organizations struggle to support ever increasing demands for performance, availability, and rapid deployment, the requirement to do more with less remains paramount. This has led to the introduction of utility-like solutions, which extend data center capabilities by enabling on-demand, elastic access to a shared pool of resources in the cloud.	High Performance SANs QLogic 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapters provides increased bandwidth to enhance hypervisor virtualization capabilities, reach greater consolidation of physical server and offer better control. QLogic's unique port isolation supports high availability and linear performance scalability across all ports and is only available from the industry’s leader in high performing (SAN) adapters.

QLogic offers complete solutions to some of the most complex and newest issues facing the data center.


Accelerate Oracle Performance Fact: QLogic 10000 Series Fibre Channel Adapters reduce Oracle transaction average response times 57%, lower the peak 82% and reduce disk array IOPs up to 87%. Fact: QLogic 2500 Series Fibre Channel Adapters Outperforms in OLTP and OLAP Environments.	Accelerate SQL Performance Fact: In a customer environment, QLogic 10000 Series Fibre Channel Adapters tripled performance for an Microsoft SQL Server running in a VMware environment.	Accelerate Exchange Performance Fact: QLogic 10000 Series Fibre Channel Adapters increase IOPs performance 400% while reducing transaction latency 80%. Fact: QLogic 2500 Series Fibre Channel Adapters achieve 35% higher throughput than other adapters.


Accelerate Clustered and Virtualized Applications Fact: QLogic 10000 Series Fibre Channel Adapters tripled performance for an MS SQL Server running in a clustered virtual machine (VM) environment. Fact: QLogic 2500 Series Fibre Channel Adapters 48% higher IOPs and throughput.	Enhance Reliability and Simplify Management Fact: All QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters use the same Universal Driver per OS, simplifying management and delivering the most stable and reliable Fibre Channel stack.	Performance and Flexibility Fact: Enterprise Data Center scalability and interoperability.


Industry-Leading Performance Fact: QLogic offers 10Gb Ethernet Solutions.	Most Robust Approach Fact: Faster Backup, Recovery, and Access Time.	Greater Flexibility and Efficiency Fact: Most Flexible Protocol Connectivity, FC and iSCSI.

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Solution Demonstration One of the key areas for a successful server virtualization deployment is providing access to multiple network resources to meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for individual applications.	Solution Demonstration One of the key areas for a successful server virtualization deployment is providing tunable network resources to meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for individual applications.	Solution Demonstration The first of two key areas for a successful virtualization deployment is to provide faster vMotion capability of VMs between your virtualized servers. The second is to ensure your physical servers have access to multiple tiers of storage, regardless of their protocol, for use by your VMs. These two goals can be achieved using a single QLogic® QLE8242 Converged Network Adapter. Having this flexibility from a single adapter helps organizations achieve greater standards around Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for individual applications.


Solution Demonstration A key area for a successful deployment of virtualization technology is the ability for administrators to maintain time-efficient and cost-effective network and storage management/visibility in the face of an increasingly complex and dynamic virtual environment.	Solution Demonstration FlexSuite Adapters feature QLogic I/OFlex technology, which is a field-configurable upgrade that allows you to use the same hardware for 16Gb Fibre Channel or 10GbE server connectivity.