MARVELL QLogic 2770 Series

Enhanced 32GFC Fibre Channel Adapters

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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 ﬂash 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 ﬂash. The NVMe

protocol has been designed from the ground up for ﬂash and features deep parallelism, random

access, and ﬂash 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 beneﬁts over a Fibre Channel fabric.

The 2770 Series Adapters support low-latency access to scale out NVMe with full support for the

FC-NVMe protocol. The 2770 Series Adapters can simultaneously support FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI

storage trac on the same physical port, enabling customers to migrate to NVMe at their own pace.

�� Improve scale out NVMe e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

• Improve database transactional performance,

enable faster business decisions with up to 2x faster

data mining, and host more VMs

• StorFusion™ technology simpliﬁes deployment and

diagnostics

• Supports PCIe® Gen4 systems

• Available in single, dual, and quad-port versions

Single Port: QLE2770

Quad Port: QLE2774

Dual Port: QLE2772

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MARVELL 2770 Series

The 277x FC Adapters bring the best of both worlds by oering 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.

FIRMWARE INTEGRITY PROTECTION WITH HARDWARE ROOT OF TRUST

Security threats continue to evolve and increase, driving Chief Information Ocers towards

securing the server all the way down to the ﬁrmware at the lowest layers of the server platform,

where attacks are the most dicult to detect. To address this issue, the Marvell QLogic

2770 Series Adapters incorporate a hardware RoT that prevents malicious ﬁrmware from hijacking

the FC HBA. The 2770 Series RoT enables both integrity and authenticity during adapter ﬁrmware

updates by both validating ﬁrmware embedded signatures with hardware embedded keys to ensure

that only bonaﬁde ﬁrmware executes, and protecting ﬁrmware 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 oers 50-percent

higher per-port performance (1 million IOPS) than previous generations; and its power-e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 simpliﬁed

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 reliability, 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 ﬁrmware.

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 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 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 2770 Series Adapters support link cable beacon (LCB) technology, which

enables administrators to visually identify both ends of a physical link.