The Marvell QLogic QLE2772/2772L-DEL Enhanced 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel (GFC)
HBAs secure mission critical data with hardware-based Root of Trust (RoT).
Leveraging over 20 years of market leadership, the QLE2772/2772L-DEL FC HBAs are
designed from the ground up for customers looking to accelerate databases, host more
virtual machines (VMs), and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), while leveraging their
investment in nonvolatile memory express (NVMe)-based all ash arrays. Marvell QLogic
QLE2772/2772L-DEL FC (32GFC) HBAs provide full backward compatibility with 16GFC
and 8GFC SANs.
NVMe Over Fibre Channel (FC-NVME)
Workloads that demand higher throughput, IOPS, and lower latency are moving to ash.
The NVMe protocol has been designed from the ground up for ash and features deep
parallelism, random access, and ash access over PCI Express® (PCIe) to maximize
bandwidth.
NVMe works best when coupled with a network that can provide lossless, low-latency,
and high-performing transport. FC-NVMe extends these benets over a Fibre Channel
fabric.
The QLE2772/2772L adapters support low-latency access to scale out NVMe with full
support for the FC-NVMe protocol. The QLE2772/2772L adapters can simultaneously
support FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI storage trafc on the same physical port, enabling
customers to migrate to NVMe at their own pace.
The QLE2772/2772L-DEL FC adapters bring the best of both worlds by offering up to
2million IOPS and line rate 32GFC performance, while delivering low-latency access to
NVMe and SCSI storage over a Fibre Channel network.
Firmware Integrity Protection with Hardware Root of Trust
Security threats continue to evolve and increase, driving Chief Information Ofcers
towards securing the server all the way down to the rmware at the lowest layers of the
server platform, where attacks are the most difcult to detect. To address this issue, the
Marvell QLogic QLE2772/2772L adapters incorporate a hardware RoT that prevents
malicious rmware from injecting malignant code into the FC HBA. The
QLE2772/2772L-DEL RoT enables both integrity and authenticity during adapter
rmware updates by both validating rmware embedded signatures with hardware
embedded keys to ensure that only bona-de rmware executes, and protecting
rmware updates that are applied over public networks.
• Improve scale out NVMe
efciencies by delivering
concurrent support for FCP and
FC-NVMe™
• Industry leading performance
of up to 2 million IOPS and
12,800MBps of aggregate
throughput
• Port isolation design delivers
deterministic and scalable
performance on both ports
• Improve database transactional
performance, enable faster
business decisions with up to 2x
faster data mining, and host
more VMs
• StorFusion™ technology
simplies deployment and
diagnostics
• Supports PCIe 4.0 systems
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Marvell® QLogic ® QLE2772/2772L-DEL
Enhanced 32GFC Fibre Channel Adapters, PCIe® 4.0
Fully Featured FC Technology
Marvell QLogic FC technology provides the industry’s most fully featured 32GFC
adapter, designed to meet and exceed the requirements of modern SANs. Marvell’s FC
solution offers 50-percent higher per-port performance (1 million IOPS) than previous
generations; and its power-efcient, port-isolated design enables data centers to reduce
their carbon footprint.
Marvell QLogic QLE2772/2772L-DEL FC HBAs resolve data center complexities by
enabling a storage network infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization
features like N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV), application-aware services with standards
based quality of service (QoS), and simplied management.
Marvell StorFusion technology delivers streamlined provisioning and improved resil-
iency with built-in forward error correction (FEC). These features address the needs of
agile IT organizations that run hybrid cloud infrastructures and require mission-critical
reliability, guaranteed network performance, and the ability to scale their SANs to
business needs.
The Enhanced 32GFC QLE2772/2772L adapters also incorporate a secure hard-
ware-based RoT to protect against rogue rmware.
Innovations that Improve Business Productivity and Integrity
Marvell QLogic FC Adapters powered by StorFusion technology include advanced
capabilities when deployed with supported Brocade® and Cisco® switches. By imple-
menting 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 or Cisco switch that supports Fibre Channel diagnostics, administrators can
quickly run a battery of automated diagnostic tests to assess the health of links and
fabric components.
The Marvell QLogic QLE2772/2772L-DEL adapters support link cable beacon (LCB)
technology, which enables administrators to visually identify both ends of a physical link.
Read diagnostic parameters (RDP) provide optics and media diagnostics while the link is
in service, enabling identication of link-related errors and degrading conditions on the
HBA-to-FC switch link.
Automatic buffer-to-buffer credit recovery (BB-CR) helps overcome performance
degradation, congestion, and link resets caused by buffer credit loss, especially on
longer distance and high-loss ber connections.
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