The QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Adapters: High Performance and Flexibility for Your Network Needs The QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Adapters are the latest in QLogic's line of Fibre Channel Adapters, offering industry-leading performance and flexibility for your network infrastructure. With dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel throughput, these adapters deliver extreme performance while utilizing minimal CPU resources thanks to full hardware offloads. This means you can eliminate potential I/O bottlenecks in even the most powerful servers, ensuring smooth and efficient data transfer. Perfect for Virtualized Environments In today's virtualized environments, the need for high I/O performance is crucial to keep up with the growing number of virtual machines (VMs). The QLogic 2600 Series Adapters are designed with powerful virtualization features, making them the ideal choice for virtualized environments that require excellent I/O performance. Transform from Fibre Channel to Ethernet One of the unique capabilities of the QLogic 2600 Series Adapters is their ability to transform from a 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter to a 10GbE Converged Network Adapter. This means you can support NIC, FCoE, and iSCSI traffic, giving you the flexibility to deploy a Fibre Channel SAN today and easily migrate to an Ethernet SAN in the future. This is made possible by QLogic's I/OFlex technology, which simplifies and reduces costs for customers. Key Features and Benefits 16Gbps Fibre Channel per port maximum throughput for high bandwidth storage area network (SAN) traffic Over 1.2 million IOPS reduce latency in high transaction intensive applications and virtualized environments Reduced hardware, cabling, and management costs by enabling more applications (virtual machines) to run on a single server and Fibre Channel port Decreased power and cooling costs by using the fewest PCI Express lanes in PCIe Gen3 environments Overlapping protection domains (OPD) to ensure a high level of reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus and Fibre Channel network Complete investment protection for legacy 8Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure Future-proof design enables conversion to a 10GbE Converged Network Adapter Upgrade your network infrastructure with the QLogic 2600 Series 16Gb Adapters and experience high performance and flexibility for all your data transfer needs.
