The QLogic QLE2692-CSC Dual-Port Enhanced Gen 5, 16GB FC (16GFC) HBA

The QLogic QLE2692-CSC dual-port Enhanced Gen 5, 16GB FC (16GFC) HBA is a high-performance storage networking solution designed to meet the demands of today's virtualized and private cloud environments. With industry-leading native FC performance and low CPU usage, this HBA boasts full hardware offloads for improved efficiency and reliability.

Enhanced Gen 5 FC Technology

Compared to Gen 5 FC, the QLogic Enhanced Gen 5 FC solution offers even higher per-port performance (up to 650K IOPS) with lower power consumption. This technology also includes QLogic StorFusion, which delivers streamlined provisioning, quality of service (QoS), and improved resiliency for IT organizations that require reliability, integrated management, and guaranteed network performance.

Enhanced Gen 5 FC technology simplifies data center complexities by enabling a storage network infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization features, application-aware services, and simplified management. This allows for improved total cost of ownership and reliability, as well as increased network performance.

Improved Total Cost of Ownership and Reliability

StorFusion technology includes advanced link diagnostics, which improve availability and support for high-performance fabrics. With the adapter's Diagnostics Port feature and a Brocade switch that supports ClearLink®, administrators can quickly run automated diagnostic tests to assess the health of links and fabric components.

The QLE2692-CSC Adapter also supports link cable beacon (LCB) technology, which allows administrators to visually identify both ends of a physical link. This simplifies cable management in large data centers with hundreds of ports and cables to manage.

Additionally, QLogic technology includes the read diagnostic parameters (RDP) feature, which provides detailed port, media, and optics diagnostics. This allows administrators to easily discover and diagnose link-related errors and degrading conditions on any N_Port-to-F_Port link, maximizing uptime and performance.

Rapid Server Deployment and Orchestration

StorFusion technology also includes fabric pre-provisioning services, which enable servers to be quickly deployed, replaced, and moved across the SAN. By leveraging the fabric-assigned port world wide name (FA-WWN) and fabric-based boot LUN discovery (F-BLD) capabilities, the creation of zones, LUNs, SAN-based boot images, and other services can be completed before the servers arrive on site. This eliminates time-consuming, manual tasks that typically delay server deployment.

Performance SLA Enforcement with VM-level QoS

To improve network performance, QLogic adapters with StorFusion technology support industry-standard class-specific control (CS_CTL)-based frame prioritization QoS. This allows for traffic to be classified and processed based on configured priorities, ensuring that mission-critical workloads are given higher priority for optimized performance.

Higher Resiliency and Performance with Automatic Error Recovery

The QLE2692-CSC Adapter also includes forward error correction (FEC) at 16GFC, which is not required by the Fibre Channel Specification but is enabled by default. This improves performance and link integrity by automatically recovering from transmission errors without re-sending frames. This feature helps support higher end-to-end data rates and ensures higher resiliency and performance for your storage network.