Lenovo 7ZT7A00516 User Manual
MARVELL QLogic 2740/2760 Series
32GFC, PCIe 3.0 Fibre Channel Adapters
• Industry’s first 32GFC HBA available in single, dual,
and quad-port versions
• Up to four ports of 32GFC deliver 25,600MBps
aggregate throughput
• Up to 2.6million IOPS fuel high performance in AFA
and high-density virtualized environments
• FC-NVMe capability allows simultaneous access to
NVMeTM and FCP Storage on the same port
• StorFusion
Marvell QLogic, enhances reliability, diagnostics, and
accelerates deployment
• Port isolation design oers deterministic and
scalable performance on each port
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The Marvell® QLogic® 2740/2760 Series Adapters are the industry’s first 32GFC Host Bus Adapters
(HBAs) available in single, dual, and quad ports. Designed with full hardware ooads, the
2740/2760 Series Adapters boast industry-leading native FC performance with extremely low CPU
usage.
32GFC TECHNOLOGY
Marvell QLogic FC technology provides the industry’s first 32GFC adapter. This solution oers
higher per-port performance (up to 650KIOPS) with lower power consumption. In addition, Marvell
StorFusion technology delivers streamlined provisioning, guaranteed QoS, and improved resiliency
with in-built forward error correction (FEC). These features address the needs of IT organizations
that require reliability, integrated management, and guaranteed network performance.
Marvell QLogic FC technology resolves data center complexities by enabling a storage network
infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization features, application-aware services, and
simplified management. The 2740/2760 Series Adapters provide advanced storage networking
features capable of supporting the most demanding virtualized and private cloud environments.
These features fully leverage the capabilities of high-performance 32GFC, all-flash arrays (AFAs),
and demanding enterprise applications. Powerful management tools automate and simplify Storage
Area Network (SAN) provisioning to help reduce cost and complexity, while the 32GFC line rate
performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore
servers.
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ACCELERATE MISSION-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
The 2740/2760 Series Adapters provide industry-leading application performance by delivering up
to 2.6million IOPS for physical, virtual, and private cloud environments. Marvell adapters deliver
application performance in virtualized and non-virtualized environments with up to 25,600MBps of
aggregate throughput.
NVM EXPRESS® SUPPORT
The 2740/2760 Series Adapters support the FC-NVMe (NVMe over Fibre Channel) protocol. The
2740/2760 Series Adapters can simultaneously support FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI storage trac.
NVMe storage oers exceptionally high performance at very low latencies. NVMe works best when
coupled with a network that can provide lossless, low-latency, and high-performing transport.
The 2740/2760 Series 32GFC Adapters bring the best of both worlds by oering the highest
performance and lowest latency access to NVMe and SCSI storage over a Fibre Channel network.
VIRTUALIZATION OPTIMIZED
The Marvell QLogic 2740/2760 Series Adapters support standards-based virtualization features.
Under VMware® ESXi(versions 6.5 and later), I/O requests and responses can be tagged with the
virtual machine-ID (VM-ID) of the appropriate virtual machine, providing end-to-end visibility at the
VM level. Support for N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) enables a single FC adapter port to provide
multiple virtual ports for increased network scalability. Standard class-specific control (CS_CTL)based QoS technology per NPIV port allows bandwidth controls and guarantees per virtual machine
(VM). In addition, the 32GFC line rate per physical port delivers unmatched storage performance to
maximize the number of VMs per physical server.
HIGH RESILIENCY WHILE IMPROVING IT STAFF PRODUCTIVITY
Marvell QLogic FC Adapters powered by StorFusion technology include advanced capabilities when
deployed with supported Brocade® and Cisco® switches. By implementing these industry-leading
solutions together, SAN administrators can take advantage of enhanced features that improve
availability, accelerate deployment, and increase network performance.
Improved Total Cost of Ownership and Reliability
StorFusion technology delivers advanced link diagnostics, which improve availability and support
for high-performance fabrics. Using the Diagnostics Port feature with a Brocade or Cisco switch that
supports link diagnostics, administrators can quickly run a battery of automated diagnostic tests to
assess the health of links and fabric components.
The Marvell QLogic 2740/2760 Series Adapters support link cable beacon (LCB) technology, which
enables administrators to visually identify both ends of a physical link. In a large data center, with
hundreds of ports and cables to manage, a simple command turns on port LED beacons on both
ends of a link cable connection. Administrators can use LCB to quickly identify connection peer
ports without tracing the cable.
Marvell technology includes the read diagnostic parameters (RDP) feature, which provides optics
and media diagnostics while the link is in service. From any point in the fabric, an administrator can
use RDP to easily access diagnostic information, thereby enabling identification of link-related errors
and degrading conditions on any N_Port-to-F_Port link.
Diagnostics Port, LCB, and RDP reduce fabric deployment time and eliminate tedious, manual
troubleshooting methods, thus saving thousands of man-hours in enterprise environments.
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