MARVELL QLogic QLE2694 and QLE2694L
Quad-port Enhanced Gen 5 FC (16GFC) Fibre Channel Adapters
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The Marvell QLogic QLE2694/QLE2694L quad-port adapters are the industry’s first Enhanced
Gen5FC (16GFC) adapters, boasting industry-leading native FC performance with low CPU usage
and full hardware ooads.
ENHANCED GEN 5 FC
Marvell’s unique Enhanced Gen5FC technology provides the industry’s first native quad-port
16GFC adapter in both low-profile (QLE2694L) and standard height (QLE2694) form factors.
Marvell’s Enhanced Gen5FC solution oers 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 Gen5FC technology resolves data center complexities by enabling a storage network
infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization features, application-aware services, and
simplified management. The QLE2694/QLE2694L 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-flash 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.
• Industry’s first native quad-port solution supporting
16GFC technology
• Four ports of 16GFC Enhanced Gen5FC 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 FCP Storage on the same port
• Enhanced reliability, diagnostics and accelerated
deployment powered by Marvell
®
StorFusion
™
technology
• Port isolation design oers consistent and reliable
performance on each port
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MARVELL QLogic QLE2694 and QLE2694L
SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE
The QLE2694/QLE2694L 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/QLE2694L Adapters support the FC-NVMe (NVMe over Fibre Channel) protocol and
can concurrently support FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI storage trac. NVMe storage oers exceptionally
high performance at very low latencies. NVMe works best with a network that can provide lossless,
low-latency, and high-performing transport. The 2600 Enhanced Gen5FC Adapters bring the best
of both worlds by oering the highest performance and lowest latency access to NVMe and SCSI
storage over an FC network.
VIRTUALIZATION OPTIMIZED
The QLE2694/QLE2694L Adapters support standards-based virtualization features. Under VMware
®
ESXi 6.0 and 6.5, 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 Gen5FC 16GFC adapters, powered by StorFusion technology, include
advanced capabilities that are enabled when deployed with supported Brocade
®
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/QLE2694L Adapters support link cable beacon (LCB), which enables administrators
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.