QLogic® Ethernet and Fibre Channel portfolio delivers key capabilities to build a Hybrid Cloud
Atlanta,
GA – Sep. 27, 2016 – Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data
centers announced broad support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Cavium’s QLogic
portfolio of Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters are now fully qualified for
Microsoft Windows Server 2016, enabling key public, private and hybrid cloud
capabilities, that allow IT functions to adapt rapidly to changing business
requirements.
Windows Server
2016, Microsoft’s cloud-ready server operating system, delivers new levels of
security, performance, resiliency and cost efficiency, enabling organizations
to innovate faster to compete effectively. QLogic’s broad I/O connectivity
portfolio of FastLinQ™ 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet Adapters and Enhanced Gen 5 (16GFC)
and Gen 6 (32GFC) Fibre Channel Adapters bring forth a new generation of Software
Defined Networking (SDN) and Storage (SDS) capabilities with Windows Server
2016 for applications and infrastructure, accelerating their journey to the
cloud.
“RDMA is key to Microsoft’s strategy for a software
defined hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Windows Server 2016, QLogic
FastLinQ Ethernet adapters deliver a rich feature set including Routable RDMA
capabilities and great Ethernet performance as well – enabling customers to
leverage Microsoft technologies like Hyper-V, SMB Direct and Storage Spaces
Direct in their journey to build a secure, efficient and hyper-converged
datacenter” said Ravi Rao, Principal PM Manager, Windows Server, Microsoft
Corp.
With Windows
Server 2016, QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters
deliver key networking features used in the Azure datacenters for performance,
agility and availability, including:
· --- Application Acceleration with Remote Direct Memory
Access (RDMA): The QLogic 45000 Series
of Ethernet adapter is the only family that supports Universal-RDMA technology,
including RoCE and RoCEv2, and capable of iWARP. This provides a RDMA
technology choice to customers and enables applications and infrastructure to
leverage Windows Server 2016 technologies like SMB Direct and High Performance
Live Migration over RDMA, accelerating storage workloads while reducing server
CPU utilization.
·--- High Performance, Scalable Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure: With support and
acceleration for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), QLogic 45000 Series of Ethernet
adapters enable customers to build highly available and scalable
software-defined storage (SDS) solutions using standard servers with local
storage, bringing the affordability and scalability of the cloud to private and
hybrid cloud deployments.
·--- Network Acceleration for Virtual Machines: With support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
Virtual Machine Multi Queue (VMMQ) technology, QLogic 45000 Series Network Adapters
enable near linear scalability in performance of Hyper-V virtualized workloads
by scaling the network performance across multiple virtual compute resources.
In addition, QLogic FastLinQ 45000 Series Adapters deliver acceleration for
Hyper-V Network Virtualization (HNV) workloads by offloading protocol
processing for VxLAN and NVGRE, enabling customers to build and scale virtualized
networks without impacting network performance.
For enterprise
class storage connectivity, the QLogic 2600
and 2700 Series of Fibre Channel Adapters in Windows Server 2016 deliver:
·--- Superior Fibre Channel Connectivity: QLogic
Fibre Channel in-box driver support for Windows Server 2016 simplifies and
accelerates the deployment of Hyper-V platforms to cloud scale while delivering
the industry’s highest transactional performance of 2.6 Million IOPS,
supporting the most demanding enterprise workloads.
·---
Advanced SAN Fabric Management– QLogic StorFusion™
technology delivers a full suite of diagnostics, rapid provisioning and QoS
services throughout the fabric. These adapters automate and simplify SAN
deployment and orchestration. This is vital in software-defined data centers
built using Windows Server 2016 and Nano Server.
·---
Direct Fibre Channel Access for Guest VMs – QLogic Fibre Channel adapters enable Virtual Fibre Channel (vFC) for
Windows Server 2016 enabling the use of advanced storage functionality directly
from the VMs.
In addition to a complete portfolio of I/O adapters,
the QConvergeConsole® management application delivers a comprehensive set of
capabilities for all Windows Server 2016 implementations, including Nano, Core
and Server, providing customers with a consistent single pane of glass,
scalable management interface, to build, deploy and maintain a hybrid cloud
infrastructure on Azure-inspired Windows Server 2016.
“QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet adapters with support for
Windows Server 2016 deliver comprehensive and cutting edge set of networking
technologies for Azure-inspired hybrid cloud deployments,” said Rajneesh Gaur,
general manager and vice president of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “These
products epitomize the innovation and value that QLogic adapters deliver in
Microsoft Windows 2016 with connectivity speeds ranging from 10GbE to 100GbE.
“Fibre Channel is an inherently secure and reliable
data network,” said Vikram Karvat, vice president of marketing, Fibre Channel
Storage Group, Cavium. “The QLogic Enhanced Gen 5 and Gen 6 Fibre Channel
Adapters build on the foundation of Windows Server 2016 delivering unsurpassed
value by enabling enterprise applications to meet peak demand, while minimizing
downtime, and simplifying Storage Area Network (SAN) administration.”
“Now that operating platforms are designed to run
thousands of business, storage and networking applications on clusters of
industry standard servers, the humble server adapter has emerged as critical
data center infrastructure,” said Frank Berry, founder and senior analyst, IT
Brand Pulse. “I expect powerful and highly sophisticated adapters from Cavium
to play a key role in data centers of the future.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and
www.cavium.com
