The Marvell QLogic 2770 Series Adapters are Enhanced 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel (GFC)
HBAs that secure mission critical data with hardware-based Root of Trust (RoT). The
adapters are available in single, dual, and quad ports across standard form factors.
Leveraging over 16 years of market leadership, the 2770 Series 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
2770 Series 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 bene��ts over a Fibre Channel
fabric.
The 2770 Series Adapters support low-latency access to scale out with full support for
the FC-NVMe-2 protocol. The 2770 Series Adapters can simultaneously support
FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI storage trafc on the same physical port, enabling customers to
migrate to NVMe at their own pace.
The 2770 Series FC Adapters bring the best of both worlds by offering up to 4 million
IOPS and line rate 32GFC performance, while delivering low-latency access to NVMe and
SCSI storage over a Fibre Channel network.
Improve scale out NVMe
efciencies by delivering
concurrent support for FCP and
FC-NVMe™
Industry leading performance
of up to 4 million IOPS and
25,600MBps of aggregate
throughput
Port isolation design delivers
deterministic and scalable
performance on each port
Marvell StorFusion™ technol-
ogy accelerates deployment,
simplies diagnostics, enhances
reliability, and optimizes
performance
Single Port: QLE2770
Quad Port: QLE2774
Dual Port: QLE2772
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Marvell® QLogic® 2770 Series
Enhanced 32GFC Fibre Channel Adapters
Firmware Integrity Protection With Hardware Root of Trust
Security threats continue to evolve and increase, driving Chief Information Ofcers
towards securing the server all the way down to the rmware at the lowest layers of the
server platform, where attacks are the most difcult to detect. To address this issue, the
Marvell QLogic 2770 Series Adapters incorporate a hardware RoT that prevents
malicious rmware from hijacking the FC HBA. The 2770 Series 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.
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-efcient, port-isolated design enables data centers to reduce
their carbon footprint.
Marvell QLogic 2770 Series 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 simplied management.
Marvell StorFusion technology delivers streamlined provisioning, improved resiliency
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 reliabil-
ity, guaranteed network performance, and the ability to scale their SANs to business
needs.
The Enhanced 32GFC 2770 Series also incorporate a secure hardware-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.
Marvell Universal SAN Congestion Mitigation Technology (USCM)
SAN congestion, although rare, has the potential to quickly spread and signicantly
disrupt application performance leading to lost business. Modern SANs, specically
those with ash storage and mix of Fibre Channel endpoint speeds can be prone to
congestion. SAN Congestion typically occurs when slower FC endpoints cannot accept
responses generated by ash/NVMe storage, a condition referred to as oversubscrip-
tion/over-utilization. Rarely, a misbehaving FC device can also lead to SAN congestion
when it is unable to replenish credits which are key to reliable Fibre Channel
Improve database transactional
performance, enable faster
business decisions with up to 2x
faster data mining, and host
more VMs
Supports PCIe 4.0 systems
Available in single, dual, and
quad-port versions
Marvell QLogic 2770 Series Adapters
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