2500 Series
8Gb-to-PCIe Fibre Channel Adapters
Data Sheet
• Fibre Channel 8Gb-to-PCIe
• 1,600MBps (full-duplex) per port
• Up to 200,000 initiator and target IOPS per port
• StarPower™ technology
• Virtualization optimized
OVERVIEW
QLogic® 2500 Series Adapters are designed to meet the business
requirements of the enterprise data center through the lowest possible
power consumption and the highest level of performance. These adapters
interface to the host server with a PCI Express
no internal performance bottlenecks.
The 2500 Series 8Gb Adapters are the highest performing adapters in
QLogic’s industry-leading Fibre Channel technology portfolio. Choosing
QLogic 8Gb adapters will not only meet today’s demanding data center
requirements by providing power and virtualization optimization,
but investment protection is built in through backward compatibility
with previous generations’ (4Gb and 2Gb) technology. In addition,
2500 Series Adapters work in both PCIe Gen1 and 2.0 host bus interface
platforms. QLogic’s unique Dynamic Power Management technology
enables the 2500 Series Adapters to provide the lowest possible power
consumption. The 2500 Series Adapters are also backed by an industryleading ve-year (no charge) limited warranty; for details, visit:
http://www.qlogic.com/Support/Pages/Warranty.aspx
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(PCIe®) 2.0 bus, ensuring
• Power optimized
• RAS optimized
• Security and management optimized
VIRTUALIZATION OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters deliver enhanced security and quality of service
(QoS), and they enable dynamic provisioning. 2500 Series Adapters also
allow multiple logical (virtual) connections to share the same physical
port. Each logical connection has its own resources and the ability to be
managed independently.
POWER OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters take advantage of QLogic StarPower technology,
ensuring power efciency. QLogic StarPower technology offers dynamic
and adaptive power management features such as power and bandwidth
optimized intelligent PCIe link training, low-power switching power
supplies, and a thermally efcient layout requiring lower airows.
RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, SERVICEABILITY (RAS) OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters provide the highest data integrity by ensuring
overlapping protection domains (OPDs) on both the control and data paths.
In addition, 2500 Series Adapters use enhanced hardware assist rmware
tracing (EHAFT), allowing more comprehensive debugging with standard
drivers.
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2500 Series
Data Sheet
SECURITY OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters support SAN-level authentication (FC-SP) fabriclevel isolation (NPIV), and end-to-end data integrity (T10).
MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters are backward compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb
speeds. A single common driver per OS for three generations of Fibre
Channel adapters (8Gb, 4Gb, and 2Gb) simplies deployment. QLogic’s
unied driver model (rmware embedded in the driver) eliminates
potential interoperability issues between rmware and driver versions. The
2500 Series Adapters’ API compatibility with 4Gb products accelerates
deployment while ensuring application compatibility.
SIMPLIFIED SETUP
Point-and-click installation and conguration wizards simplify the adapter
setup process. Storage administrators can quickly deploy adapters across
a SAN using standard adapter management tools and device utilities. The
2500 Series Adapters are also fully compatible with industry-standard
APIs—including the SNIA HBA API and SMI-S—that allow administrators
to manage QLogic adapters using third-party software applications.
COMPREHENSIVE OS SUPPORT
QLogic offers the broadest range of support for all major OSs to ensure
OS and hardware server compatibility. Drivers are fully tested and
available for Windows
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, Linux®, Solaris®, and VMware® ESX®. A single
driver strategy per OS allows storage administrators to easily deploy and
manage adapters in heterogeneous SAN congurations. QLogic’s driver
suite supports all major hardware server platforms, including 32- and
64-bit computing platforms from Intel
®
(IA32, IA64, and EM64T) and AMD®
(Opteron™ 64).
INVESTMENT PROTECTION
For over 20 years, QLogic has been a technological leader with products
that address the current needs of customers, yet provide strong
investment protection to support emerging technologies and standards.
QLogic stands alone in the industry with its product portfolio depth and
experience in successfully delivering technological solutions that address
the needs of today and tomorrow.
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