MARVELL QLogic 2750 Series
Enhanced 32GFC Fibre Channel Controllers
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The Marvell® QLogic® 2750 Series are Enhanced 32-Gigabit Fibre Channel (GFC) Controllers that
secure mission critical data with hardware-based Root of Trust (RoT). The controllers are available
in dual and quad port models.
Leveraging over 16 years of market leadership, the 2750 Series FC Controllers 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 2750 Series Controllers provide
full backward compatibility to 16GFC SANs; the 2700 Series Controllers provide full backward
compatibility to 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 2750 Series Controllers support low-latency access to scale out NVMe with full support for the
FC-NVMe protocol. The 2750 Series Controllers can simultaneously support FC-NVMe and FCP-SCSI
storage trac on the same physical port, enabling customers to migrate to NVMe at their own pace.
• Improve scale out NVMe eciencies 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
troubleshooting
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• Available in dual and quad-port versions
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MARVELL 2750 Series
The 2750 Series Controllers bring the best of both worlds by oering 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
The Enhanced 32GFC 2750 Series Controllers incorporate a secure hardware based RoT to protect
against rogue firmware. Security threats continue to evolve and increase, driving Chief Information
Ocers towards securing the server all the way down to the firmware at the lowest layers of
the server platform, where attacks are the most dicult to detect. To address this issue, the
Marvell QLogic 2750 Series Controllers incorporate a hardware RoT that prevents malicious firmware
from hijacking the FC controller. The 2750 Series RoT enables both integrity and authenticity during
controller firmware updates by both validating firmware embedded signatures with hardware
embedded keys to ensure that only bona fide firmware executes, and protecting firmware updates
that are applied over public networks.
FULLY FEATURED FC TECHNOLOGY
Marvell QLogic Enhanced 32GFC technology provides the industry’s most fully featured 32GFC
controller, designed to meet and exceed the requirements of modern SANs. Marvell’s FC solution
oers 50-percent higher per-port performance (1 million IOPS) than previous generations; and its
power-ecient, port-isolated design enables data centers to reduce their carbon footprint.
Marvell QLogic 2750 Series FC Controllers 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 and 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.
INNOVATIONS THAT IMPROVE BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY AND INTEGRITY
Marvell QLogic FC Controllers 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 2750 Series Controllers 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 identification of link-related errors and degrading conditions on the switch link.