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Payformance Speeds Service with an FCoE Infrastructure Based on NetApp, Cisco, and QLogic
Payformance was challenged to upgrade their storage infrastructure to handle a 12-fold increase in customer data, improve storage manageability,
speed response time, and cut costs. Find out how upgrading to a converged network allowed them to increase storage throughput from 200 MB to 1.5 GB.
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Where Is Intel's FCoE Solution?
FCoE may not be the slam-dunk portrayed by some analysts and vendors, but I'm confident an "everything over Ethernet" approach is the right one for the next
generation of enterprise data centers. It's hard to argue with commodity pricing, solid 10Gbit performance, backward-compatible connectivity ,and network-enabled
flexibility. Fibre Channel will eventually succumb to the Ethernet monster, and the data center will be better for it.
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Competitive Positioning of Network Adapters
While not the most glamorous of technologies, server host adapters are a critical component of IT infrastructure. Wikibon believes that the adapter marketplace
will see a significant shake-up over the next three years due to the convergence of storage networks and traditional networks as part of the
Infrastructure 2.0 trend.
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QLogic Introduces a New Generation of Converged Network Adapters and a New Level of Flexibility
On October 7, 2010, QLogic Corp. announced a new product line under the 3GCNA banner: the 8200 Series of 10GbE Converged Network Adapters (CNAs),
its 8200 Series converged LAN-on-Motherboard (cLOM) counterpart, as well as the 3200 Series of 10GbE network adapters. These products deliver new levels
of convergence and flexibility, and represent a new class of third-generation Converged Network Adapters.
Click here to read the press release.
Click here to read media coverage.
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QLogic Introduces FCoE Port Technology for HP
QLogic Expands Industry Lead in Converged Networks
Continuing to innovate along a fast-paced trajectory to expand its industry lead in intelligent converged fabric technologies,
QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC) today announced a revolutionary new Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) ASIC with breakthrough
connectivity innovations.
The new QLogic® FCoE ASIC, code-named "Bullet," features industry-first flex port technology that enables ports to be dynamically
allocated to support Fibre Channel, iSCSI or FCoE data--instantaneously.
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Cisco, VMware, NetApp Claim First End-to-end FCoE Configuration
Oracle is offering its own FCoE converged network infrastructure
Computerworld - Networking, storage and virtualization vendors Cisco, NetApp, and VMware on Wednesday announced what they said
is the first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) storage network for VMware server environments.
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FCoE Standard Approved in Record Time
Still obviously irked by assertions the FCoE standards and market are not fully baked,
Cisco forwarded an FCoE fact sheet today in a snippy e-mail from a PR agent, claiming a "record time" for
standards approval last week by the T11 working group of INCITS/ANSI.
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QLogic Internalizes FCoE Switch for IBM BladeCenter
February 2010
Abstract: QLogic is announcing a new FCoE win with IBM BladeCenter, only this time it is not for a Converged
Network Adaptor (CNA). IBM will leverage QLogic’s FCoE switching technology to deliver the first internal, fully
integrated FCoE switching module for its BladeCenter chassis.
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QLogic Wins "Silver" Storage Networking Product of the Year Award
The QLogic Corp. 8100 Series Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapter (CNA) uses a
single chip set to allow storage administrators to extend server and storage consolidation and virtualization projects by
converging Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks.
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FCoE No Longer a Question of Why, but When!
We've covered Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) many times and from many angles in
these pages and on infostor.com, but for our Special
Report on FCoE this month we thought it would be a good idea to round up some actual users.
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FCIA Showcases 8Gb Fibre Channel and FCoE Solutions at Storage Networking World 2009
Leading vendors will collaborate on how 8Gb Fibre Channel and FCoE technology work together in the
data center. Companies supporting this demonstration are: Amphenol, Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, EMC, Intel, LSI,
Molex, NetApp, PMC Sierra and QLogic.
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NetApp's Host to Server FCoE with Brocade, QLogic
The FCoE PCIe adapter can be added to existing NetApp FAS 3000, FAS 3100,
FAS 6000, FAS2050, V6000, and V3100 appliances providing both Fibre Channel and FCoE on the same adapter.
Both Fibre Channel and FCoE share the same software license. The drivers for the adapter are the same for
both Fibre Channel and FCoE adapters, so no software modifications are needed on the operating system. Since
QLogic's CNA is a single chip product, it runs cooler and with less power than multi-chip CNAs.
IBM has already selected the QLogic chip for their CNA for IBM's System X and BladeCenter. NetApp
is OEMing QLogic's 8152 CNA, rebranding it as NetApp's Unified Target Adapter for host connectivity.
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FCoE Lesson #1
Following on from Hu Yoshidas apparent blunder over FCoE and lossy networks, I thought I'd do my bit to clear things up and shed some light.
Knowing a thing or two about FCoE I'm regularly amazed at how little some people know.
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FCoE Coming of Age
This past March, the Wikibon community gathered to discuss
Five Reasons CIOs
should Care about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). In a Professional Alert at that time we
indicated that future servers and blade systems will use a single Ethernet card on a Converged
Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) network. What was missing from the picture, however was the endorsement
of a major Tier 1 server player.
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Mixed Enterprise Environments Could Make FCoE a Winner
Peter Williams,
Practice Leader - IT Infrastructure Mgmt., Bloor Research; believes that standards come and go, and some
never have lift off; but I think FCoE is one that will ramp up—as evidently does QLogic. The starting
point is that the FCoE standard is here, backed by some products, and has been tried and tested. It is
now beginning to ship.
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Did My FCoE Prediction Come True?
Tom Trainer wrote the following in his Byte and Switch column: "And plugfests
are a great way to test interoperability of various vendor's products; although I noticed that Emulex,
and a few others, were not part of the second round of testing at UNH-IOL."
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QLogic to Showcase Intelligent Converged Networks at SNW
Press release covering QLogic's SNW participation. QLogic will demonstrate
its multi-faceted portfolio of server, storage and data networking technologies, including the all-new
8100 Series of PCI Express converged network adapters (CNAs). Based on the company's advanced Network
Plus Architecture, the 8100 Series is the world's first single-chip CNA with full FCoE hardware offload,
and has already been embraced by a significant number of tier one OEMs for use in high-density storage
systems and blade servers.
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SNW Announcement: QLogic World's First Single Chip CNA
QLogic announces Industry Lead in FCoE Market with Multiple Tier
One OEM Design Wins for World's First Single Chip Converged Network Adapter with Full FCoE Offload
QLogic Leads the Charge Toward Intelligent Converged Networks as the Only Company with Single Chip
FCoE CNAs
Press release covering QLogic's 8100 series announcement: QLogic announced the
immediate availability of the all-new QLogic 8100 Series of PCI-Express converged network adapters
(CNAs), based on the company’s advanced new Network Plus Architecture. QLogic's first-to-market
advantage with intelligent converged fabric technology has enabled the company to secure a significant
number of server and storage OEM design wins.
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FCoE Switch - EMC® Connectrix® NEX-5020
The EMC® Connectrix® NEX-5020, its first Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switch
and the first to be offered by a storage provider. The newest addition to EMC’s family of switches and directors
uses the emerging FCoE standard to transfer data between physical and virtual servers and storage systems
using the highly reliable Fibre Channel protocol over high speed, lossless 10 Gb/s Ethernet networks.
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First Native FCoE SAN Storage Solution
The world's first FCoE storage array from NetApp is powered by QLogic. Converged
Network Adapter (CNA) technology from QLogic is embedded in storage arrays from NetApp to offer a single
interface to converged networks, providing customers with the storage and networking combination needed
to augment and enhance their data center environments.
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Five Reasons CIOs should Care About Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Dave Vellante from Wikibon discusses Five Reasons why CIOs should Care about Fibre
Channel over Ethernet . Vellante talks about how FCoE exploits the lossless capabilities of 10Gb Ethernet
which allows organizations to construct high speed, high bandwidth disk interconnects which leverage the
ubiquity of Ethernet and at the same time efficiently utilize organizations' massive investments in Fibre Channel.
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FCoE Has a Lot of Potential
Fibre Channel over Ethernet is poised to revamp the storage industry, but is it worth considering just yet?
It does have a lot of potential, CRN Test Center describes a remote test of an FCoE solution in this interesting article.
Testing started off with the configuration of the Cisco switch done through the Cisco Fabric Manager. Fabric Manager gives a
detailed, yet well-organized, view of logical objects in a network.
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet Takes Its Next Step
Storage infrastructure vendors are pushing the nascent Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE) standard as the quickest path to 10 Gbps Ethernet connectivity, although iSCSI proponents obviously
disagree… ComputerWeekly.com provides and interesting perspective on the emerging FCoE and how it
contrasts to 10Gb iSCSI.
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INFOSTOR - The promise of FCoE, the Reality of Adoption
FCoE is also challenged with a variety of moving parts within the industry that will have to come together.
The FCoE ecosystem is expansive, with a variety of vendors in the storage, adapter, and switch markets. No one vendor can bring
the technology to market by simply voicing support or by delivering a single component. Industry analysts say it will take a
multi-vendor solution to bring FCoE into a complete infrastructure play.
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iSCSI Vendors: FCoE Is Purely Defensive
Fibre Channel over Ethernet could be a way to slow the growth within the data center of iSCSI, which runs
at gigabit-Ethernet (GigE) speeds, but promises to be a formidable alternative to Fibre Channel once 10 GigE becomes more common.
This article provides a counterpoint to FCoE with an iSCSI perspective.
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NetApp First to Offer Native FCoE SAN storage
NetApp announced to be the first vendor to pledge native support for Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) in a storage array. Joel Reich, vice president of NetApp's SANiSAN unit, said at Storage
Networking World that NetApp FAS and V series storage systems will support Cisco's Nexus 5020 FCoE switch,
as well as Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) from QLogic.
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Vendors Push Fibre Channel Over Ethernet
The installed base for "unified fabric" technology is currently zero. "I don't think that we will see a
sudden "flip the switch," he said. During his keynote, Edsall also said he does not anticipate iSCSI disappearing, despite
the emergence of technologies such as FCOE. This could be tied to the non-routable nature of FCOE, something which has already
been identified as a potential obstacle for FCOE deployments.
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