QLogic

Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)

2007-08-14T21:20:00Z

QLogic HBAs offer best-in-class SAN performance and functionality - plus the convenience of a single driver per OS for all 2Gb and 4Gb HBAs. For detailed product information and driver downloads follow the link below...

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http://www.qlogic.com/products/fc_san_hostadapers.asp

SANbox 9000 Series Stackable Chassis Switch

2007-08-14T20:37:00Z

Designed to the Core™ for Open Systems

Finally, there’s a new class of core switch that represents a sane alternative to quarter million dollar Director switches. The SANbox 9000 series is designed to the core for cost sensitive, business-critical, open system environments that require a ultra-high density, blazing performance, 99.999% availability, intelligent, switch platform for their data center core. SANbox 9000 series represents a number of industry firsts: a stackable chassis for simple, cost-effective scalability, a 4U chassis for smaller footprint, the simplicity and economies of Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) and a comprehensive set of core switch software management tools included as standard. Best of all, pricing starts at under $100K.

The highly scalable SANbox 9000 is a stackable chassis switch with a dedicated 800Gb/s HyperStack™ connection between as many as two chassis modules. The high port count SANbox 9000 supports up to 256 ports in a dual chassis configuration. he intelligent SANbox 9000 offers in one chassis module: 8 slots for any mix of 4Gb or 10Gb Fibre Channel I/O Blades, iSCSI/FCIP Intelligent Storage Router I/O Blade, or Storage Services Platform (SSP) Blades. For high availability, the SANbox 9000 features redundant, hot-swap I/O, SSP, CPU, Power Supply and Fan blades. And for comprehensive fabric management, the SANbox 9000 includes a powerful and easy-to-use suite of software tools for setting-up, monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting and servicing an unlimited number of large fabrics.

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http://www.qlogic.com/documents/datasheets/products_data/sanbox/sanbox9000_datasheet.pdf

Jefferson Union High School District

2007-08-14T20:24:00Z

QLogic and Hitachi Data Systems End Data Truancy at School District

Challenge
Find a scalable and cost-effective storage area network (SAN) for student projects, coursework, and administrative records at a mid-sized school district.

Solution
The Hitachi Data Systems® Plug-and-Play SA N Kit includes everything needed for a complete SAN in Microsoft® Windows Server™ environments: QLogic® SANbox® Express 1000 switching components (one 10-port, 2Gbps QLogic SA Nbox Express 1400 switch, QLogic HBAs, connectors, cables, drivers), as well as a 2TB Hitachi Data Systems AMS200 TagmaStore™ Adaptable Modular Storage unit that can scale to up to 41TB of storage.

Result
The HDS SAN kit allows students and teachers to keep all their work on the scalable SAN instead of limited server direct-attached storage (DAS), which required deleting old documents to make way for new files. Centralized storage keeps the district in compliance with state funding mandates that require immediate access to attendance records.

iSCSI Boot

2007-08-14T20:20:00Z

Executive Summary:

Two constant driving forces within IT departments are the need to reduce IT costs, and increase the availability of data. These needs have pushed organizations to use many smaller, low cost servers in an effort to get the greatest computing power per dollar spent. With this trend comes increased complexity to manage the environment.

This trend toward larger numbers of servers has also driven more IT departments to put more of their servers and storage on storage area networks (SANs). Increasingly, there is interest in allowing serves to boot from the SAN as this boot configuration can both reduce the cost of ownership and simplify SAN management, while increasing the availability of these servers.

Fibre Channel SANs have supported booting for several years. In iSCSI SANs, host bus adapters (HBAs), as opposed to software initiators, are the best means to implement booting from the SAN. In addition to the enhancements to CPU performance through the processing offload provided by an HBA, the SAN boot advantages will make the investment in HBAs cost effective.

This white paper will explain what SAN boot is, its advantages, and how it works in iSCSI. It will also explain the hardware requirements and applications, and conclude with specific information about QLogic’s iSCSI HBA and its support of SAN boot.

HBA Virtualization Technologies for Windows OS Environments

2007-08-14T18:59:00Z

Executive Summary

Today, Microsoft® offers Virtual Server 2005 R2, a software virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment. Storage administrators deploy Virtual Server 2005 R2 to consolidate underutilized servers,
support legacy operating systems, automate software test and development environments, and simplify disaster and recovery planning. In the future, Microsoft will offer Windows Server Virtualization (previously code named Viridian) as part of the Windows Server Longhorn release. This new hypervisor-based technology will provide a more scalable, secure, and highly available virtualization solution. Microsoft’s virtualization solutions combined with QLogic’s Host Bus Adapter (HBA) virtualization technologies further increase hardware utilization and enable organizations to rapidly configure and deploy virtual machines.

Scalability in MS-Exchange

2007-08-14T18:56:00Z

Executive Summary

QLogic has carried out a comparative I/O performance and scalability study of commercially available 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs. Microsoft Exchange was chosen as an application of choice for the benchmarking exercise because e-mail is the most business critical application today. According to The Radicati Group, the average e-mail data volume per user increased by 53% between 2003 and 2004. The growth of e-mail in business use has been disruptive with corporate e-mail usage expected to jump 38.49% from 439 million mailboxes in 2005 to 608 million mailboxes in 2009. Similarly, consumer e-mail usage is expected to jump approximately 70% from 926 million mailboxes in 2005 to 1576 million mailboxes in 2009. Microsoft Exchange has the dominant market share with 32% of the Installed base in 2005 which is expected to climb to 37% of the Installed base in 2009.

4Gb HBA Leadership in Windows SANs

2007-08-14T18:52:00Z

Executive Summary

The transition to 4Gb Fibre Channel SANs is happening now. Newer technologies like server virtualization, multi-core processors, and faster server host bus architectures are driving increased IOPs and bandwidth requirements on the server side. The move to 4Gb FC on switches and storage arrays and the evolution of denser architectures on servers and storage is also demanding need for higher scalability in the SAN infrastructure. To meet these ever-growing demands on the SAN, it is imperative that enterprise SAN users deploy a scalable HBA architecture that can
address a full spectrum of concerns including cost, performance, backward compatibility, and most importantly future scalability.