The Marvell QLogic QLE2694/2694L quad-port adapters are the industry’s rst
Enhanced 16GFC (16GFC) adapters, boasting industry-leading native FC performance
with low CPU usage and full hardware ofoads.
Enhanced 16GFC
Marvell’s unique Enhanced 16GFC technology provides the industry’s rst native
quad-port 16GFC adapter in both low-prole (QLE2694L) and standard height
(QLE2694) form factors. Marvell’s Enhanced 16GFC solution offers higher per-port
performance (up to 650K IOPS) with lower power consumption (3W per port). In
addition, Marvell StorFusion technology delivers streamline provisioning, guaranteed
QoS, and improved resiliency while addressing the needs of IT organizations that require
reliability, integrated management, and guaranteed network performance.
Enhanced 16GFC technology resolves data center complexities by enabling a storage
network infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization features, applica-
tion-aware services, and simplied management. The QLE2694/2694L Adapters provide
advanced storage networking features capable of supporting the most demanding
virtualized and private cloud environments while fully leveraging the capabilities of
high-performance 16GFC and all-ash arrays (AFAs). Powerful management tools
automate and simplify SAN provisioning to help reduce cost and complexity, while the
unmatched 16GFC performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful
multiprocessor, multicore servers.
Superior Performance
The QLE2694/2694L Adapters provide industry-leading application performance by up
to 2.6million IOPS for physical, virtual, and private cloud environments. Marvell QLogic
adapters deliver the best throughput performance in virtualized and non-virtualized
environments with 12,800MBps of aggregate throughput per-second. Integrated
Marvell StarPower™ technology delivers dynamic power management, which ensures
that the PCIe® host bus link uses the minimum number of PCIe lanes to meet the
required bandwidth.
NVM Express® Support
The QLE2694/2694L Adapters support the FC-NVMe (NVMe over Fibre Channel)
protocol and can concurrently support FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI storage trafc. NVMe
storage offers exceptionally high performance at very low latencies. NVMe works best
with a network that can provide lossless, low-latency, and high-performing transport.
• Industry’s rst native quad-port
solution supporting 16GFC
technology
• Four ports Enhanced 16GFC
deliver 12,800MBps aggregate
bandwidth
• Up to 2.6million IOPS fuel high
performance in AFAs and
high-density virtualized
environments
• FC-NVMe capability allows
concurrent access to NVMe™
and SCSI based Storage on the
same port
• Marvell StorFusion™ technol-
ogy accelerates deployment,
simplies diagnostics, enhances
reliability, and optimizes
performance
• Port isolation design offers
consistent and reliable perfor-
mance on each port
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Marvell® QLogic® QLE2694/2694L
Quad-port Enhanced 16GFC Fibre Channel Adapters
The 2600 Enhanced 16GFC Adapters bring the best of both worlds by offering the
highest performance and lowest latency access to NVMe and SCSI storage over an FC
network.
Virtualization Optimized
The QLE2694/2694L Adapters support standards-based virtualization features. Under
VMware® ESXi 6.x and later, I/O requests and responses can be tagged with the virtual
machine-ID (VM-ID) of the appropriate virtual machine, providing end-to-end visibility at
the VM level. Support for N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) enables a single FC adapter
port to provide multiple virtual ports for increased network scalability. NPIV allows a
single FC adapter port to participate in multiple virtual fabric domains for improved
availability. In addition, the 16GFC line rate per physical port delivers unmatched
storage performance to maximize the number of virtual machines per physical server.
MARVELL StorFusion Technology
Marvell QLogic’s Enhanced 16GFC 16GFC adapters, powered by StorFusion technology,
include advanced capabilities that are enabled when deployed with supported Brocade®
and Cisco® switches. By implementing these industry-leading solutions together, SAN
administrators can take advantage of enhanced features that improve availability,
accelerate deployment, and increase network performance.
Improved Total Cost of Ownership and Reliability
StorFusion technology delivers advanced link diagnostics, which improve availability and
support for high performance fabrics. Using the Diagnostics Port feature with a Brocade
switch that supports ClearLink®, administrators can quickly run a battery of automated
diagnostic tests to assess the health of links and fabric components.
The QLE2694/2694L Adapters support link cable beacon (LCB), which enables adminis-
trators to visually identify both ends of a physical link. In a large data center with
hundreds of ports and cables to manage, a simple command turns on port LED beacons
on both ends of a link cable connection. Administrators can use LCB to quickly identify
connection peer ports without tracing the cable.
Marvell technology includes the read diagnostic parameters (RDP) feature, which
provides detailed port, media, and optics diagnostics. From any point in the fabric, an
administrator can use RDP to easily discover and diagnose link-related errors and
degrading conditions on any N_Port-to-F_Port link.
The extensive suite of diagnostic tools maximizes uptime and performance, allowing
organizations to address problems before they impact operations.
Rapid Server Deployment and Orchestration
StorFusion technology includes fabric pre-provisioning services that enable servers to
be quickly deployed, replaced, and moved across the SAN. By leveraging fabric-assigned
port world wide name (FA-WWN) and fabric-based boot LUN discovery (F-BLD) capabili-
ties, the creation of zones, LUNs, and other services can be completed before the
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