QLogic 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters

As10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PCI-Express (PCI-E) converged network adapters (CNAs), QLogic 8200 series offer high performance for enterprise environments looking to acquire a single or dual port adapter that is compatible with their existing Fibre Channel (FC) and Internet Small Computer Interface (iSCSI) storage, and yet is geared towards the future. With the ability to support simultaneous Local Area Network (LAN) and Storage Area Network (SAN) traffic, QLogic 8200 series adapters supports this traffic over a shared 10 GbElink at a line rate speed of 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps). Not only able to support LAN and SAN traffic concurrently, QLogic 8200 series adapters also provide support for three concurrent protocols including Transmission Control Internet Protocol (TCIP)/ Internet Protocol (IP), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI. Additional support that QLogic 8200 adapters provide include support for Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP+) direct attach copper cabling as well as support for Short Reach (SR) optical transceivers.

The low profile design of QLogic 8200 series adapters is just one of the advantageous features that the models within this series offers when it comes to their configurations. Other design advantages include the ability to choose between a single port and a dual port model – the single port model allows storage to be split up to 4 ways, while a dual port model allows storage to be split up to 8 ways. Further benefits of QLogic 8200 series adapters include their exceptional feature set, which provides enhanced performance through features such as support for Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), jumbo frames, teaming, stateless offload support and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) – the last of which improves networking performance for virtualized environments. And when it comes to managing your QLogic 8200 series adapter, this process is made easy with the single-pane-of-glass management tool, QConvergeConsole, in addition to any native operating system (OS) management tools.