QLogic 8300 Datasheet

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8300 Series

10Gbps Ethernet-to-PCIe Converged Network Adapters

Overview

The 8300 Series Adapters are QLogic’s fourth generation of Converged Network Adapters, supporting simultaneous LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI) traffic at line rate, 10Gbps Ethernet (GbE) speeds—at extremely low CPU usage with full hardware offloads. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.

In addition, support for powerful virtualization features makes this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs). The ability to support multiple protocols simultaneously on the same hardware offers multi-tenancy flexibility, which is ideal for private and public cloud environments.

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Highlights

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• 10GbE per-port maximum throughput for high bandwidth storage

and networking traffic.

• Over 1.2 million FCoE IOPS reduce latency in high transaction

intensive applications and virtualized environments.

• Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support for faster performance

in virtualized environments.

• Reduced hardware, cabling, and management costs by enabling

more applications (VMs) to run on a single server with converged traffic to top-of-the-rack switch.

Leadership, Confidence, and Trust

QLogic is the undisputed leader in Fibre Channel and Converged Network Adapters, with over 15 years of experience and more Fibre Channel and FCoE ports deployed than any other vendor. QLogic’s Fibre Channel and Converged Network Adapters have been qualified by all major server and storage OEMs to provide networking, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCoE connectivity from host and storage to fabric. QLogic is the only vendor with proven Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI stacks.

Virtualization Optimized

• Decreased power and cooling costs by using the fewest PCI

• Overlapping protection domains (OPD) to ensure a high level of

• Future-proof design enables conversion to a 16Gb Fibre Channel

In addition, convergence offers lower power consumption, reduced cooling, and easier LAN and SAN management.

Express

reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus.

Adapter.

lanes in PCIe® Gen3 environments.

Investment Protection

The 8300 Series Adapters are also compatible with the same 10GbE networking, 1/10GbE iSCSI, and Fibre Channel/FCoE software driver stack that is shipping today on QLogic’s 8100 and 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters. This driver stack has been tested and validated across all major hardware platforms, all major Hypervisors and OSs, and has been battle-hardened in millions of previous installations.

The 8300 Series Adapters, powered by QLogic VMflex™ technology, support QLogic’s switch-agnostic NIC partitioning (NPAR) technology as well as industry-standard I/O virtualization technologies. SR-IOV enhances I/O performance in virtualized environments and improves VM scalability for increasing storage and networking workloads.

Simplified Management

QLogic’s new, unified management application, QConvergeConsole® (QCC), provides single-pane-of-glass management for the company’s broad product line of storage and networking adapters (Fibre Channel, converged networking, NIC, and iSCSI).

Superior Application Performance

In addition, QLogic supports all major APIs, giving the end user the flexibility

The QLogic 8300 Series of Converged Network Adapters, powered by QLogic FlexOffload and iSCSI storage traffic at line rate across all ports. With support for over 1.2 million I/O transactions per second, QLogic adapters deliver the best storage application performance in virtualized and nonvirtualized environments.

technology, consume the lowest CPU to drive FCoE

Support for Multiple Protocols Simultaneously

The QLogic 8300 Series Adapters reduce data center costs by converging FCoE, TCP/IP, and iSCSI traffic simultaneously on the same hardware. This convergence results in buying fewer adapters, cables, and switches.

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to manage their QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter portfolio using third-party management tools, including a vCenter™ plug-in for VMware

Future-Proof Design

The QLogic 8300 Series Adapters can convert from a 10GbE Converged Network Adapter to a 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter. Based on QLogic I/OFlex™ technology, the adapter’s flexibility simplifies and reduces cost for customers who want to deploy an Ethernet SAN today and migrate to a Fibre Channel SAN in the future.

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Host Bus Interface Specifications

Bus Interface

• PCI Express

Host Interrupts

• INTx and MSI-X

I/O Virtualization

• SR-IOV

• NPAR

Compliance

• PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 3.0; PCI Express

Card Electromechanical Specification, rev. 2.0; PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, rev. 1.2

Gen3 x4, Gen2 x8 (x8 physical connector)

Ethernet Specifications

Throughput

• 10Gbps full-duplex line rate per port

Ethernet Frame

• 1,500 bytes or 9,600 bytes (jumbo frame)

Stateless Offload

• IP, TCP, and user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum

offloads

• Large and giant send offload (LSO, GSO)

• Large receive offload (LRO)

• Receive side scaling (RSS)

• Interrupt coalescing

• VMware NetQueue and Microsoft

Compliance

• IEEE: 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet), 802.1q (VLAN),

802.3ad (Link Aggregation) Encoding), 802.3x (Flow Control), IPv4 (RFQ 791), IPv6 (RFC 2460), 802.1Qbb (Priority-Based Flow Control),

802.1Qaz (DCBX/Enhanced Transmission Selection)

VMQ

, 802.1p (Priority

FCoE Specifications

Logins

• Support for 2,048 concurrent logins and 2,048 active

exchanges

Port Virtualization

• N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)

Compliance

• SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre

Channel Tape (FC-TAPE) Profile, SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol-2 (FCP-2), Second Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-2), Third Generation FC Generic Services (FC-GS-3), FCoE & FIP (FC-BB-5)

iSCSI Specifications

Compliance

• RFC 3720 (iSCSI), RFC 3347 (iSCSI Requirements and

Design Considerations), CHAP, iSNS, SLP

Tools and Utilities

Management Tools and Device Utilities

• QConvergeConsole: a unified management tool

(GUI and CLI) for Fibre Channel/FCoE, iSCSI, and networking

• Native OS management tools for networking

Boot Support

• PXE, FCoE, iSCSI boot

APIs

• SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S

Operating Systems

• For the latest applicable operating system information,

see http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com.

Physical Specifications

Ports

• QLE8360: single 10Gbps Ethernet

• QLE8362: dual 10Gbps Ethernet

Form Factor

• Low-profile PCIe card: (6.6 inches × 2.54 inches)

• Custom form factors also available

Environment and Equipment Specifications

Temperature

• Operating: 0°C/32°F to 55°C/131°F

• Storage: –20°C/–4°F to 70°C/158°F

Humidity

• Relative (noncondensing): 10% to 90%

• Storage: 5% to 95%

Maximum Cable Distances (Optical)

Multi-Mode Optic

Cable and Distance (m)

Rate

10Gbps 33 82 300 550

OM1 OM2 OM3 OM4

Agency Approvals

Safety

• US, Canada, Europe

EMI and EMC (Class A)

• US, Canada, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Japan,

Korea

Ordering Information

QLE8360-CU (single port) QLE8362-CU (dual port)

• Ships without transceivers. Intended for use with

copper cables (not included). A list of approved copper cables is posted at http://www.qlogic.com/Resources/

Documents/LineCards/Copper_Cables_Support_ Matrix_Line_Card.pdf

QLE8360-SR (single port) QLE8362-SR (dual port)

• Ships with SR optical transceivers installed

1. Contact your QLogic sales representative regarding supported configurations.

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