San Jose (CA), Starnberg, 02. Febr. 2017 - QLogic FastLinQ™ Ethernet und Fibre Channel Lösungen für die aktuelle HPE Synergy Composable Infrastructure qualifiziert…

Zum Hintergrund: Cavium, Inc. hat neue I/O-Lösungen im Rahmen seiner aktuellsten QLogic Fibre Channel and Ethernet Technologien für die Hewlett Packard Enterprise Synergy Composable Infrastructure Blade-Server Plattform angekündigt. HPE Synergy als sog. Composable Infrastructure ist laut Hersteller von Grund auf neu entwickelt worden, um traditionelle Infrastrukturen mit denen der aktuellsten IT unter den Randbedingungen Agilität, Geschwindigkeit und Verfügbarkeit zu unterstützen. Cavium Logic ist nach eigenen Angaben derzeit exklusiver Lieferant für 10GbE und 20GbE I/O für HPE Synergy 2820C und HPE Synergy 3820C Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). QLogic stellt ferner 16Gb Fibre Channel connectivity für HPE Synergy 3830C 16Gb FC Adapter bereit. Auch bietet QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet innerhalb (intern) von HPE Synergy frames mit QLogic 57840S ASIC LOM für HPE Synergy Composer Module an (iSCSI SAN für HPE Synergy). Nachfolgend aus Aktualitätsgründen weitere technische Details des Anbieters in englischer Sprache (Quelle (1): Cavium QLogic I/O Technologies für HPE Synergy):

• "The HPE Synergy 2820C 10Gb Converged Network Adapter is a key element in HPE Composable fabric connecting pools of compute resources to networks with reliable, high-performing converged 10Gbps Ethernet connectivity. With Flex-10 Technology, it converges Ethernet and FCoE onto a single connection simplifying hardware and reducing costs. Concurrent with storage I/O functionality this adapter also enables single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) capabilities for networking functions.

• The HPE Synergy 3820C 10/20Gb Converged Network Adapter is another key element in HPE Composable fabric connecting pools of compute resources to networks with reliable, high-performing converged 10Gb or 20Gb Ethernet connectivity. With Flex-20 Technology, the Synergy 3820C converges Ethernet, iSCSI and FCoE onto a single connection, simplifying hardware management and reducing costs by up to 60% [1]. The Synergy 3820C is an ideal choice for any virtualized or converged data center.

• Designed for the HPE Synergy Composable fabric, HPE Synergy 3830C 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter connects Synergy compute resource pools to SANs over 16Gb native Fibre Channel (FC) fabrics. It provides high-performance connectivity to HPE Synergy Virtual Connect FC Modules and Brocade FC Switch Modules. The Synergy 3830C supports advanced virtualization, security, port isolation, dynamic power management and low CPU utilization features. QLogic StorFusion technology built in the Synergy 3830C integrates with Brocade Gen 5 16Gb FC fabrics enabling rapid deployment and orchestration, advanced diagnostic and improved reliability and resiliency for HPE Synergy frames connecting to shared SAN storage. Doubling the I/O performance of 8Gb FC HBAs, the Synergy 3830C is ideal for FC storage intensive workloads.

• Cavium QLogic 57840S ASIC LOM on the HPE Synergy Composer modules which utilizes the QLogic NIC partitioning (NPAR) technology to virtualize the physical connections within the HPE Synergy Composer which in turn delivers the necessary scalability and flexibility required to build the composable infrastructure."

Link > QLogic HPE Partnership microsite

Quote: "With HPE Synergy, compute, storage and fabric are now always available as single pools of resources that can be instantly configured according to the specific needs of each application," said Tom Lattin, Vice President of Server Options, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "The Synergy Ethernet adapters developed through our partnership with Cavium QLogic deliver a robust feature set and advanced performance offload capability which enables HPE customers to realize the true potential of the HPE Synergy Composable infrastructure."

(1) Quelle: Cavium (QLogic)

Abb. 1: Quelle Cavium Blog "It’s Time to Change Your SAN Playbook from Legacy Fibre Channel to Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel HBAs" (Greg Scherer, VP & CTO).