QLogic QLE2694L-CK Internal Fiber interface cards/adapter

QLE2694L-CK - Enhanced Gen 5, Quad-Port, 16Gbps Fibre Channel-to-PCIe Adapter - Industry’s first native quad-port solution supporting 16Gbps Enhanced Gen 5 FC technology
- Four ports of 16Gbps deliver 64Gbps aggregate bandwidth
- Up to 2.6 million IOPS fuel high performance in AFAs and highdensity virtualized environments
- Enhanced reliability, diagnostics and accelerated deployment powered by QLogic StorFusionTM technology
- Port isolation design offers consistent and reliable performance on each port

The QLE2694 Adapter is the industry’s first Enhanced Gen 5, Quad-port, 16Gbps Fibre Channel Adapter, boasting industry-leading native FC performance with extremely low CPU usage with full hardware offloads.

ENHANCED GEN 5 FC
QLogic®’s unique Enhanced Gen 5 FC technology provides the industry’s first native quad-port 16Gbps adapter, available in both low-profile (QLE2694L) and standard height (QLE2694) form factors. QLogic’s Enhanced Gen 5 solution offers higher per-port performance (up to 650K IOPS) with lower power consumption (3W per port). In addition, QLogic StorFusion technology delivers streamline provisioning, guaranteed QoS, and improved resiliency while addressing the needs of IT organizations that require reliability, integrated management, and guaranteed network performance.

Enhanced Gen 5 FC technology resolves data center complexities by enabling a storage network infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization features, application-aware services, and simplified management. The QLE2694 Adapter provides advanced storage
networking features capable of supporting the most demanding virtualized and private cloud environments while fully leveraging the capabilities of high-performance 16Gbps FC and all-lash arrays (AFAs). Powerful management tools automate and simplify SAN provisioning to help reduce cost and complexity, while the unmatched 16Gbps performance eliminates
potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.

SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE
The QLE2694 Adapter provides industry-leading application performance by up to 2.6 million I/O transactions per second for physical, virtual, and private cloud environments. QLogic adapters deliver the best throughput performance in virtualized and non-virtualized environments with 64Gbps of aggregate throughput, per-second. Integrated QLogic StarPower™ technology delivers dynamic power management, which ensures that the PCIe® host bus link uses the minimum number of PCIe lanes to meet the required bandwidth.

VIRTUALIZATION OPTIMIZED
The QLE2694 Adapter supports standards-based virtualization features. Under VMware® ESXi 6.0 and 6.5, I/O requests and responses can be tagged with the virtual machine-ID (VM-ID) of the appropriate virtual machine, providing end-to-end visibility at the VM level. Support for N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) enables a single FC adapter port to provide multiple virtual ports for increased network scalability. NPIV allows a single FC adapter port to participate in multiple virtual fabric domains for improved availability. In addition, the 16Gbps line rate per physical port delivers unmatched storage performance to maximize the number of virtual
machines per physical server.