Rapidly increasing requirements for storage in mission-critical environments is driving virtualization across all aspects of infrastructure.
Data center managers face the fundamental task of integrating SAN environments over multi-vendor and multi-protocol infrastructures.
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QLogic’s
enterprise customers.
award-winning 5000 Series Switches unleash powerful, flexible, and cost-effective stacking architecture for small to medium
• Affordable entry as low as eight 8Gb device ports—plus four “always on” 10Gb stacking ports included (12 ports total)
• 20Gb ISL bandwidth on demand—as needs change, upgrade your stacking ports
• Full backwards-compatibility with existing 4Gb and 2Gb infrastructure
• Expandable to twenty 8Gb device ports per switch (24 ports total)—or 120 device ports per multi-switch stack
• Choice of cost-optimized single power supply (SB5800V) or high-availability dual power supply (SB5802V) models
Highlights
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What’s New?
• 8Gb/“8Gb-ready” performance at affordable prices —
Backwards compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb devices and optics.
• “Always on” 10Gb stacking ports—No extra cost to activate your
storage networking backbone.
• 20Gb ISL bandwidth on demand—Prepare for the future without
paying more today.
• Preferred service included—24×7 call support plus next-
business-day hardware exchange.
• Fabric Security and SANdoctor
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is now included
• NPIV support for virtualized environments
• Pay-as-you-grow scalability—Maximize the value of SAN
technology investments.
• Flexible transparent router feature—Connect easily to any
vendor’s SAN.
Migrate to 8Gb at Your Own Pace
Thanks to widespread corporate plans for server virtualization or
consolidation, along with the rapid adoption of multicore processors, many
SAN users are already recognizing the need for 8Gb network speeds. At a
minimum, savvy IT managers know they must take the 8Gb transition into
account when making their next equipment purchases.
Same Great QLogic 5000 Series Value
• Cost-saving modular backbone architecture
– Stability
– Scalability and adaptability
– Extended solution lifespan
• 4-port expansion increments
• Easy to install and manage
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– QuickTools
on-board GUI and CLI included
– Adaptive trunking included
• Powerful advanced software options
– Enterprise Fabric Suite™
– SANdoctor
• Still the most cost-effective, high-performance SAN switch
available!
However, these same customers—and others who are not yet ready for
8Gb—also demand a solution that can be installed alongside existing
infrastructure without requiring large up-front payments for capabilities
that may be needed later.
QLogic’s field-proven modular backbone architecture, a key component
of the QLogic SAN life cycle management framework, offers a powerful
answer to this dual request, allowing customers to build SANs that will last
far into the future while simultaneously providing the lowest cost of entry.
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Next-Generation Stacking: A Good Idea Gets Better!
QLogic 5800V lets you connect 8Gb, 4Gb, or 2Gb devices to a SAN for
about the same cost as competing 4Gb-only solutions, but the investment
protection advantages go much deeper! Unlike other solutions, the 5800V
can phase bandwidth provisioning incrementally within your ISL fabric—
the most performance-critical area of the SAN.
1. Start with “Always On” 10Gb ISLs
Each QLogic 5800V ships with all four 10Gb stacking ports active by
default. Basic inter-switch connectivity is now included with the product.
Customers no longer need to take ISL port costs into account when planning
their SANs—every port they purchase may now be connected directly to a
server or storage device! (See sidebar for more on stacking.)
At their default 10Gb setting, the four stacking ports provide over 50Gb of
additional bandwidth per switch—the equivalent of six extra 8Gb ports!
10Gb ISL speed provides more than enough bandwidth for customers in
the early stages of their 8Gb migration, when many switch ports are still
attached to 4Gb storage and other legacy devices.
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What Is Stacking?
Stackable switches, long familiar to Ethernet users, were
introduced for Fibre Channel by QLogic in 2003. Stacking cuts complexityandcosts by providing a stable, highly-expandable
transport for aggregate ISL traffic—eliminating the disruption, port
waste, and management hassles associated with using device
ports as ISLs.
True Backbone Value
In a stackable architecture, each switch features dedicated ports
for ISL; that is, for connecting to other switches. These ports offer
much greater bandwidth than the regular data/device ports, and
therefore require far fewer connections to achieve specific
bandwidth goals.
2. 20Gb Bandwidth On Demand
When a majority of QLogic device ports are eventually connected to 8Gb
devices, additional inter-switch bandwidth may be desired. At that point,
customers can nondisruptively upgrade the ISL ports on one or more
switches to 20Gb. At 20Gb, this is the only ISL technology that perfectly
complements 8Gb device speeds and extends the stability, cost savings,
and performance benefits of a true backbone architecture to nextgeneration SANs.
IT managers now have all the network headroom they need to deploy new
applications and technologies with confidence. Best of all, because 20Gb
uses the same cables/connectors as 10Gb, customers can upgrade their
entire SAN at the click of a mouse—without touching a cable or purchasing any new hardware. Only QLogic offers such a cost-deferred “pay-as-yougrow” plan for the 8Gb transition.
Need more server or storage ports? Simply add another switch to the
stack—no need to move existing cables or disrupt devices.
products provide superior performance at a price-per-port that
is competitive with single-speed, nonstacking edge switches.
• Reduced expansion costs—Compared to nonstackable
switches, multiswitch QLogic networks require up to 50 percent fewer switches to achieve the same device port counts.
Because each stacking port matches the throughput of three
device ports, QLogic ISL connections are far less expensive
per unit of bandwidth. For instance, a single 20Gb connection
(25.5Gbps line rate, 51Gbps full-duplex) saves six 8Gb device
ports for devices and eliminates the need for six expensive 8Gb
SFPs. Stacking has never made more sense from a budget
versus performance perspective!
• Longer product and topology lifespan—Other vendors force
customers to take a nonlinear “rip and replace” approach to
SAN growth, offering a limited solution at the low end, followed
by a radically different architecture as the installation matures.
QLogic’s modular ISL backbone helps customers pace
investments and deployment activities predictably over time,
with fewer wrong turns and reversals—even when corporate
strategies and directions change.
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Easy to Install and Manage
• Installation and configuration wizards—From basic switch setup
to advanced zoning and extended distance configuration, the QLogic
5800V automates routines to make deployment a snap. Installation is
a three-step, point-and-click process. Self-configuring switch ports
automatically adjust to 8Gb, 4Gb, or 2Gb device speeds.
• On-board GUI—No software to load. Just point a web browser at any
switch and manage the entire fabric from that location. No matter what
your level of expertise, the web-based QuickTools interface has all you
need for basic fabric management. For advanced administration of
larger SANs, the optional Enterprise Fabric Suite application provides an
unprecedented level of intuitive control.
• Stack management—With Enterprise Fabric Suite, users can manage
stacks of 5000 Series products as a single device, loading firmware,
applying security configuration changes, or handling user and SNMP
administration for up to six switches simultaneously.
Fast, Reliable Performance
• Full bandwidth architecture—The QLogic 5800V provides
uncontested “wire speed” bandwidth at every port—a total of 544Gbps
per switch! Plus, the dedicated 10Gb/20Gb ISL transport makes it easy
to create nonblocking multiswitch configurations. ISL capacity expands
automatically as device port count grows, ensuring a consistent user
experience.
• Adaptive Trunking—There are no extra costs or complicated license
schemes. QLogic Adaptive Trunking optimizes ISL use and performance
by pooling the capacity of multiple 20Gb, 10Gb, or 8Gb links into
a single high-speed pipeline. Trunks are employed automatically,
eliminating the need for manual configuration. Unlike other trunking
implementations, trunked ports need not be sequential, and can be
spread across multiple switches. Switch-on-exchange design supports
intelligent path selection, fabric shortest path first, and virtual trunking.
Powerful, Intuitive Software
QLogic Fibre Channel switches use the same code base, which means that
QLogic switches are backward and forward compatible—you will need to
learn only one set of management tools.
• QuickTools—Embedded Java
management, zoning, and fabric management. QuickTools includes a
configuration wizard and QLogic drag-and-drop zoning, the industry’s
most intuitive zoning method.
• Fabric Security (now included)—Provides the right mix of advanced
protection features for user, connection, and device security. This
includes support for remote authentication dial-in user service (RADIUS)
authentication, and SSH and SSL encryption. Device connection
security uses Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), DH-CHAP, and
FC-GS-4 CT.
• Enterprise Fabric Suite (optional)—Reduce software costs while
managing the SAN your way with unprecedented levels of control.
Enterprise Fabric Suite bundles high-value enterprise features such
as Fabric Tracker, Performance View, Port Threshold Alarms, Stack
Management, and mPort™ movable port activation into a single sitelicensed package. You’ll spend less time and money licensing individual
features or worrying about “balloon payment” per-switch fees as your
SAN grows.
• SANdoctor (now included)—An extensive set of diagnostic tools for
trouble-shooting problems in your fabric. SANdoctor includes media
digital diagnostics, fabric trace route, and fabric ping.
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Web applet for device discovery, device
A variety of reliability features enable the QLogic 5800V to deliver overall
system availability greater than 99.999 percent.
• I/O StreamGuard™ registered state change notification (RSCN)—
Guaranteed bandwidth for time-sensitive applications such as video
streaming
• Hardware-enforced zoning by WWN
• Hot-swappable dual power supply options
• Nondisruptive code load and activation (NDCLA)
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Multi-vendor SAN Interoperability
• Fully compatible with other QLogic switches—Mix and match in
stacks with all 5000 Series products (2Gb, 4Gb, or 8Gb). The QLogic
5800V is also compatible with FC-SW-2-compliant switches made by
other vendors.
• Connect easily to any vendor’s switch—Transparent routing provides
selective and secure sharing of devices without disrupting existing core
SANs and management practices.
• Interoperable with all major storage, server, application, and
infrastructure vendors—SNMP support, an API, and an SMI-S agent
are available for integration into popular third-party management
applications.
What is Transparent Routing
Transparent routing (TR) is a standard feature of
QLogic 5800 Series Switches that provides seamless,
cost effective expansion of SANs from any vendor.
TR extends industry-standard N_Port ID virtualization
(NPIV) technology, enabling customer-designated
ports on a QLogic 5800 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.
End-to-End Virtualization Support
NPIV support comes standard across the entire QLogic switch portfolio,
allowing full integration and interoperability with applications, such as
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VMware
from IBM
, and hardware, including leading transparent blade solutions
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, HP®, and others.
Investment Protection
The QLogic 5800V Series Switch provides low total cost of ownership (TCO),
extended product life, and a phased “pay-as-you-grow” approach that will
enhance any company’s long-term financial strategy. Make businesscritical applications and personnel more productive with a next-generation
QLogic SAN—the best choice for today’s infrastructure and tomorrow’s.
• 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 makes inter-fabric zoning
QLogic switch becomes the simplest way to add resources to any third-party SAN