QLogic 3100 Series Intelligent Network Adapters

QLogic 3100 Series Intelligent Network Adapters

As intelligent network adapters, QLogic 3100 series are able to auto-sense what speed they need to be for your enterprise data environment, and are capable of providing a dual port configuration with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) to PCI-Express (PCI-E) connectivity to servers. As a result, the QLogic 3100 series’ ability to adapt to meet the needs of your environment allows them to be highly flexible, as does their inclusion of both a copper and an optical model – providing users with a choice between working with the higher cost of optics or the distance limitations set by copper. In addition to their flexibility, QLogic 3100 adapters provide many other key advantages including numerous stateless offloads, which help to reduce the utilization of the server’s Central Processing Unit (CPU). Thus, QLogic 3100 adapters are able to provide benefits such as enhanced application throughput and not only improved server application performance, but overall system performance as well.

Configured in a low-profile form factor that allows them to be used with any server form factor, QLogic 3100 series intelligent Ethernet adapters offer further advantages through advanced features such as dynamic power management, Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and NetSlice I/O virtualization support. Each of these features provide their own unique benefits; for instance, dynamic power management reduces power consumption without also having to reduce performance, while SR-IOV and NetSlice I/O virtualization support both function to enhance the virtualization-ready capabilities of the QLogic 3100 series. And if your organization is looking towards the future, QLogic 3100 series adapters are an excellent choice due to their superior investment protection, which is derived from two main sources. The first source is the type of architecture that QLogic 3100 adapters are built on, which is QLogic’s own Protocol Processing Engine architecture, which enables performance enhancements to be supported on the same hardware. The second source is the use of common drivers across all intelligent network adapters, QLogic 3100 series and others included, reducing costs and ensuring compatibility.