QLogic BR-1020
Converged Network Adapter
Data Sheet
• Provides high-performance line-rate 10Gbps Ethernet for
enterprise-class, reliable LAN connectivity
• Supports DCB for low-latency, lossless, and deterministic
10Gbps Ethernet connectivity and storage over Ethernet
applications (FCoE/iSCSI)
• Delivers advanced Ethernet performance, including IPv4 and IPv6
checksum ofoad, RSS, HDS, jumbo frame support, and TSO
OVERVIEW
Today’s IT professionals face the difcult challenge of reducing data center
cost and complexity while satisfying numerous service level agreements
(SLAs) and performance requirements. As a result, organizations are
seeking ways to improve server and storage utilization, reduce ongoing
operational costs, and increase their exibility and responsiveness.
The QLogic BR-1020 (dual port) Converged Network Adapter provides
enterprise-class connectivity for next-generation data centers. This
adapter integrates 10Gbps Ethernet NIC functionality with Fibre Channel
technology—enabling transport over a 10-gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
connection through the data center bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel
over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols. This approach provides best-in-class LAN
connectivity and server I/O consolidation, helping to reduce cost and
complexity in next-generation data center environments.
• Provides scalable connectivity features across a secure,
multiprotocol, lossless environment
• Enables a single storage driver for both QLogic BR-Series
Converged Network Adapters and Fibre Channel Host Bus
Adapters
FCoE encapsulates and transmits Fibre Channel frames over this enhanced
Ethernet infrastructure while preserving the Fibre Channel constructs
and management paradigm for backward compatibility and investment
protection.
By leveraging these technologies, QLogic Converged Network Adapters
enable organizations to consolidate multiple 1GbE NICs and Fibre Channel
Host Bus Adapters into a single adapter.
CENTRALIZED ADAPTER MANAGEMENT
QLogic’s Host Connectivity Manager (HCM) is an easy-to-use adapter
management tool for conguring, monitoring, and troubleshooting the
QLogic BR-series adapters. HCM enables server administers to quickly
congure BR-series adapters locally or remotely.
IMPROVED TCO THROUGH I/O CONSOLIDATION
DCB is a set of industry standards that enhances Ethernet protocol to
enable low-latency, lossless, and deterministic network infrastructure
for storage and other highly demanding trafc types. QLogic Converged
Network Adapters support all of these standards, including priority-based
ow control (PFC), enhanced transmission selection (ETS), congestion
notication (CN), and data center bridging exchange (DCBX).
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HCM scans the SAN environment to discover visible storage resources
and display target LUNs. A simple to use graphical tree view provides fast
access to the managed Host Bus Adapters, Converged Network Adapters,
ports, and target storage resources. HCM also provides notications of
various conditions and problems through a user-dened event lter.
QLogic BR-1020
Data Sheet
In addition to providing a graphical interface, QLogic also provides
a powerful command line interface, BCU CLI, for scripting and task
automation.
For holistic data center-wide management, QLogic HCM is tightly
integrated with Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) to provide end-toend conguration and management of the entire SAN infrastructure.
Administrators can launch QLogic HCM from within BNA to provide singlepane-of-glass management of QLogic BR-series adapters and Brocade
Fibre Channel switches.
QLogic also provides open APIs and standards-based interfaces for
integration with popular third-party applications.
UNMATCHED PERFORMANCE
The explosive growth of server virtualization and high-bandwidth
applications, such as video-on-demand and high performance computing
(HPC), is leading to increased performance demands, making 10Gbps
connectivity a key requirement. Recent advances in server technology,
including Intel® Nehalem processors, now enable servers to run more
workloads, increasing consolidation and virtualization ratios. With more
VMs deployed per server, network bandwidth and storage I/O requirements
are higher than ever before.
QLogic Converged Network Adapters are full-featured 10GbE NICs that
deliver 10Gbps line-rate performance per port. They provide stateless
networking ofoads such as TCP checksum and segmentation ofoads
for improved performance and more efcient CPU usage. Additional CPU
cycles can then be dedicated to additional application processing.
QLogic Converged Network Adapters deliver full hardware-based FCoE
ofoad to provide superior performance for storage applications, with up
to twice the performance of competitive offerings in real-world application
scenarios.
With server virtualization, multiple applications share a physical switch
port. Furthermore, applications can move across the virtualized server
infrastructure based on a number of user-dened policies and in response
to dynamic business requirements. Virtualization hypervisors implement
virtual switching technologies to connect the VMs to the network, and to
move data between VMs.
Virtual machine optimized ports (VMOPs) ofoad the hypervisor of essential
virtual switching tasks, such as incoming packet classication and sorting
tasks, helping to reduce latency and improve throughput while freeing CPU
cycles that can be used to further scale an organization’s virtualization
environment.
QLogic Converged Network Adapters support N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)
with up to 255 virtual ports, and are qualied with all major hypervisor
solutions in the industry.
Optimal Support for Windows Server 2012
QLogic Converged Network Adapters’ support of Windows Server® 2012
policy-based quality of service (QoS) enables administrators to specify
network bandwidth controls based on application type, users, and servers
for the physical network. In addition, support of Hyper-V® QoS enables
cloud hosting providers and enterprises to deliver predictable network
performance for multiple types of trafc for VMs on Windows Server 2012
servers equipped with QLogic BR-1020 adapters running in DCB mode.
MAXIMIZING INVESTMENTS
To help optimize technology investments, QLogic and its partners offer
complete solutions that include professional services, technical support,
and education. For more information, contact a QLogic sales partner or
visit www.qlogic.com.
Ultimately, this means that businesses of all sizes can scale their virtual
server deployments and virtualize highly demanding applications with
greater condence, resulting in better server resource utilization and lower
capital and operational costs.
OPTIMIZED FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
In non-virtualized environments, applications are tied to physical servers,
which in turn connect to physical switch ports in a “static” manner.
Applying network policies or monitoring application performance is simple
because the applications are permanently associated with the physical
ports.
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QLogic BR-1020
Data Sheet
Host Specications
Server Platform
• Intel (IA32, IEM64T); AMD® (x86, 64); Oracle®/Sun®
(x86, SPARC®)
Bus Interface
• PCI Express® Gen 2.0
• Compatible (x8) with MSI-X and INTx
FCoE Specications
Protocols
• FC-SP, FC-LS, FC-GS, FC-FS2, FC-FDMI, FC-CT, FCP,
FCP-2, FCP-3, FC-BB-5.1
Performance
• Up to 500K IOPS per port (1M IOPS per dual-port
adapter)
Logins
• Support for 2,048 logins and 4,096 exchanges
Class of Service
• Class 3, Class 2 control frames supported
Ethernet Specications
DCB Support
• Priority-based ow control (PFC: 802.1Qbb)
• Enhanced transmission selection (ETS: 802.1Qaz)
• Congestion notication (802.1Qau)
• DCBX
Software
Management
• QLogic Host Connectivity Manager (HCM)
• QLogic BCU CLI
Operating Systems
• For the latest applicable operating system information,
see http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com.
Management APIs
• SNIA HBA API v2.0, SMI-S, and FDMI-1
Physical Specications
Transceivers
• 10Gbps Ethernet LC-style pluggable (SFP+), SR
(850nm) and LR 10km (1310nm), hot-swappable
• 10Gbps Ethernet direct-attached active Twinax SFP+
copper cable (1m, 3m, 5m), hot-swappable
Form Factor
• Low-prole MD2 form factor PCI Express card:
16.77cm × 6.89cm (6.60in. × 2.71in.)
Distance Support
• 26 meters at 10Gbps on 62.5µm multimode ber
• 82 meters at 10Gbps on 50µm (OM2) multimode
ber
• 300 meters at 10Gbps on 50µm (OM3) multimode
ber
• 10 kilometers at 10Gbps on 9µm single-mode ber
• 5 meters at 10Gbps over active Twinax cable
Power Dissipation
• 8.5W
Operating Voltage
• 3.3V
Agency Approvals
United States
• CSA 60950-1-03 First Ed; ANSI C63.4; cCSAus;
FCC Class B
Canada
• UL60950-1, First Ed; ICES-003 Class B; cCSAus
Japan
• CISPR22 Class B and JEIDA (Harmonics); VCCI-B
European Union
• EN60950-1; EN55022 Class B and EN55024;
TÜVBauart, CE Mark
Australia, New Zealand
• EN55022 and CISPR22 Class B or AS/NZS; ISPR22;
C-Tick
Russia
• IEC60950-1; 51318.22-99 and .24-99; GOST Mark
Korea
• KN22 and KN24; KCC Mark Class B
Taiwan
• CNS 14336(94); CNS 13438(95) Class A; BSMI Mark
Performance
• 10Gbps full-duplex line rate
Frame Sizes
• All standard Ethernet frame sizes supported, including:
9,600-byte jumbo frames; mini-jumbo frames
Ethernet Acceleration
• IPv4/IPv6, TCP, and user datagram protocol (UDP)
checksum ofoad; IPv4 header checksum ofoad;
TCP segmentation ofoad (TSO); receive side scaling
(RSS); header data split (HDS); VLAN insertion/
stripping and ltering
1 See documentation for full list of supported protocols.
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Environment and Power Requirements
Airow
• 45 linear feet/minute (LFM)
Operating Temperature
• 0º C/32º F to 50º C/122º F (dry bulb)
Non-operating Temperature
• –43º C/–40º F to 73º C/163º F (dry bulb)
Operating Humidity
• 5% to 93% (relative, non-condensing)
Non-operating Humidity
• 5% to 95% (relative, non-condensing)
Ordering Information
BR-1020-0010 (dual port)
• Ships in a single pack with low-prole and standard
brackets, and SR/SW SFP+ transceivers
BR-1020-1010 (dual port)
• Ships in a single pack with low-prole and standard
brackets, and Twinax SFP+ transceivers
QLogic BR-1020
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NOTICES
Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) is a management solution from Brocade that enables unied management across SAN and IP networks. Brocade Server
Application Optimization (SAO) is an optional feature available on Brocade switches. SAO works with QLogic BR series adapters to enhance application
performance and VM scalability. Licenses for Brocade's BNA and SAO products can be purchased separately through Brocade Corporation.
DISCLAIMER
Reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the validity and accuracy of these performance tests. QLogic Corporation is not liable for any error in this
published white paper or the results thereof. Variation in results may be a result of change in conguration or in the environment. QLogic specically
disclaims any warranty, expressed or implied, relating to the test results and their accuracy, analysis, completeness or quality.
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