QLogic 3810 User Manual

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3810 Fibre Channel Switch

An Affordable Solution for Small SANs

Overview

The QLogic 3810 Fibre Channel Switch offers a simple and affordable solution to share the capacity of Fibre Channel storage devices
among multiple servers. To simplify SAN deployment, the QLogic 3810 Switch also provides flexibility to build and manage a new
departmental fabric inexpensively with a seamless, nondisruptive connection to existing multivendor fabrics.

• An affordable 8-port solution for entry level SANs

• 100 percent nonblocking 8Gb performance in a 1U rack-mountable unit

• Backward compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb devices

Highlights

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What’s new?

• 8Gb/ “8Gb-ready” performance at affordable prices

• Easy expansion of any SAN with the flexible transparent routing (TR)

feature, which is based on N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)

• SANdoctor

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now included

Easy to Deploy and Use

• Configuration wizards for fast setup

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• QuickTools

on-board GUI

Why Install a SAN?

• Share storage resources among servers

• Reduce hardware and management costs

• Improve application performance and availability

• Accelerate server backups and disaster recovery

• Increase storage capacity

Connect your first SAN with today’s highly advanced
technology.

• CLI

• I/O StreamGuard™—guaranteed stability for tape, video, and other

streaming applications

• NPIV support for virtualized environments

• Advanced fabric security included

• Drag-and-drop zoning

Hassle-Free Interoperability

• Deploy with 8Gb, 4Gb, or 2Gb optics

• Compatible with all leading adapters and storage

Best of all, QLogic’s 8Gb Fibre Channel technology ensures that this reliable,
entry-level switch will continue to meet the most demanding requirements
far into the future, while maintaining full backward compatibility with 4Gb
and 2Gb devices. Increase the long-term impact of your mission-critical
storage infrastructure with today’s best SAN-switch value.

Servers

Link up to eight devices in a single-switch configuration with quick
installation wizards and an easy-to-use, on-board, management user

QLogic 3810

interface. Perfect for high-speed server backup or departmental SAN
islands, the QLogic 3810 Switch helps busy IT managers centralize storage
control and reduce infrastructure costs, all while improving data access.

Tape

Library

Storage Arrays

Cost-conscious companies no longer need to sacrifice strategic IT goals
to meet budgetary goals. With the 3810 Switch, standard features, such
as I/O StreamGuard and NPIV, provide all the enterprise-class performance
that QLogic’s larger customers depend on—at a price that can produce an

Experience the cost-saving benefits of shared storage: maximize

return on RAID/tape investments; scale storage independent of servers;

centralize access management

immediate return on investment even for the smallest businesses.

For information about supported SAN standards and classes of service,
refer to the QLogic 3810 Fibre Channel Switch Installation Guide that is
available through the Downloads page at www.qlogic.com.

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Cost-Effective Expansion

QLogic’s use of NPIV technology eliminates interoperability concerns
between QLogic 3810 switches and other vendors’ switches. TR provides
selective and secure sharing of devices in both directions without merging
fabrics.

What is Transparent Routing

Transparent routing (TR) is a standard feature of
QLogic 3810 Switch that provides seamless, cost
effective expansion of SANs from any vendor.
TR extends industry-standard NPIV technology,
enabling customer-designated ports on a QLogic
3810 Switch to log into an existing third-party SAN
as N_Ports—just like host or storage. In this way,
E_Port complexity is eliminated, and the QLogic
switch becomes “transparent” to the original SAN
infrastructure. Storage resources can be shared
selectively in either direction, while existing services
and management practices are preserved.

The QLogic 3810 Switch with TR provides the performance and port
consolidation of a switch without exposing itself to the existing core SAN.

• Migrate to the latest technology—Upgrade legacy 2Gb and 4Gb SANs

cost effectively.

• Backup SAN—The SAN can be accessed for dedicated and secure

backup without disrupting the existing fabric.

• Departmental buildout—Build and manage new a departmental fabric

to simplify upgrades and replacements.

• Cost effective expansion—Bring QLogic switch

stacking benefits to legacy SANs.

• Easy setup with QuickTools—Continue to use

existing tools to manage the third-party SAN.

• Administrator-defined mappings—Share only

what you want to share.

• Configuration Wizard—Provides easy cut-and-

paste inter-fabric zoning commands.

QLogic switch becomes the simplest way to add resources to any third-party SAN.

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Fabric Specifications

Ports per Chassis

• Eight 8Gb SFP ports

Port Types

• All ports are universal, auto-discovering, and self-

configuring, assuming the following states: F_Port,
FL_Port, G_Port, GL_Port, TR_Port (E_Ports not
included—single-switch environments only)

Performance Features

Fabric Port Speeds

• 2/4/8Gbps, full-duplex

• All ports auto-negotiate with slower devices

• Fabric latency: less than 0.2ms

• Cut-through routing

Fabric Point-to-Point Bandwidth (8-port switch)

• 1,700MBps, full-duplex

Aggregate Bandwidth (8-port switch)

• 136Gbps per chassis, end-to-end

• Nonblocking architecture

Maximum Frame Sizes

• 2,148 bytes (2,112 byte payload)

Per-Port Buffering

• ASIC-embedded memory (non-shared)

Media

Supported SFP Types

• Hot-pluggable, industry-standard, 3.3V SFP+ (8Gb)

transceivers

• Compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb SFPs

• Shortwave/longwave (optical), active copper

Media Transmission Ranges (2Gbps)

• Shortwave optical: 500m (1,640ft)

• Longwave optical: 10km (6.2mi)

Cable Types

• 50/62.5 micron multimode fiber optic

• 9 micron single-mode fiber optic

Fabric Management

Management Methods

• QuickTools Web applet (embedded in switch)

• CLI

• API, GS-4 management server (including FDMI), SNMP,

remote authentication dial in-user service (RADIUS),
FTP, TFTP, SMI-S

• Interoperability with leading SAN management

applications

Security

• User security: user accounts, RADIUS authentication

• Connection security: SSH (CLI), SSL (SMI-S)

• Device security: FC-SP DH-CHAP, FC-GS-4 CT

authentication

Access Methods

• 10/100 Ethernet base-T (RJ45), serial port

(RS-232 with DB9), IPv6 support

Diagnostics

• Power-on self test (POST)

Fabric Services

• NPIV support

• Simple name server

• Hardware-based zoning

• Registered state change notification (RSCN)

• I/O StreamGuard

• Automatic path selection

• FDMI support

User Interface

• LEDs, command-line console, Web utilities

Mechanical

• Optional rack-mount kit

• Front-to-back air pattern

• RoHS-compliant

• Dimensions H × W × D: 43.2 × 432 × 476mm

(1.7 × 17 × 18.75in)

• Weight: 6.35kg (14lbs)

Environmental and Equipment Specifications

Operating

• Temperature: 0°–40°C

• Humidity (rH): 15%–80% 24-hour soak;

non-conditional, 5%–90%, 8-hour ramp

• Altitude: 0–10,000 feet

• Vibration: 5–500Hz, random, 0.21g rms, 10 minutes

• Shock: 4g, 11ms, 20 repetitions

Non-Operating

• Temperature: –40°–70°C

• Humidity: 5%–90% non-condensing

• Altitude: 0–50,000 feet

• Vibration: 5–500Hz, random, 2.09g rms, 10 minutes

• Shock: 30g, 13ms, trapezoidal

Electrical

• Voltage: 100–240VAC; 50–60Hz

• Power load: 1A at 120VAC; 0.5A at 240VAC

• Power consumption: 60W nominal, 70W maximum

Agency Approvals—Product Safety

• US and Canada: UL/cUL, 60950-1

• Europe: EN60950, CB Scheme-IEC 60950-1, CE, TUV,

Low Voltage Directive

• Russia: GOST R

• Demko

Agency Approvals—EMI/EMC

• Meets class A emissions and immunity requirements

for USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand,
Korea, Japan

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QLogic Corporation reserves the right, without notice, to make changes in product design or specifications.

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