ALISO VIEJO, Calif., June 14, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- QLogic(r) Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), stackable switches and blade server switches, today introduced the QLogic QMH2462, a 4Gb Fibre Channel HBA for the HP BladeSystem c-Class. The HBA is a member of the SANblade(r) Pro 2400 series, specifically engineered for the new HP BladeSystem, allowing users to take advantage of the high performance, high scalability and reliability of QLogic Fibre Channel technology for their storage needs.
"4Gb technology is essential for achieving the high performance needed in virtualized BladeSystem environments," said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "We are glad to do our part in making a 'best-run' IT infrastructure a reality by providing state-of-the-art storage networking technology for this modular system that HP BladeSystem users can deploy out of the box."
The QLogic QMH2462 is a dual-port, 4Gb Fibre Channel mezzanine card that offers HP BladeSystem c-Class users high performance for their storage applications with an I/O transfer rate of up to 150,000 IOPs per port. It also provides enhanced data reliability by using overlapping protection domains for continuous protection of internal data paths. In addition, the HBA is virtualization-ready, providing a high level of scalability by allowing physical ports to be part of multiple logical networks.
"The Fibre Channel HBA, developed in partnership with QLogic through the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder program, provides customers a reliable resource to ensure that their business critical applications are performing optimally," said Paul Miller, vice president, marketing, Industry Standard Servers and BladeSystem Division, HP. "Through the new BladeSystem innovations our customers will benefit from a lower cost solution and one that's easier to manage."
"A Better 4Gb" HBA from QLogic
The new QLogic 4Gb HBAs offers a suite of technology advancements that help storage administrators in large enterprises ensure complete business continuity, maintain application performance and cost-effectively scale their networks.
For Better 4Gb Performance:
-- Intelligent Interleaved DMA -- Unlike round-robin schemes for
transmitting data in a mixed 1Gb/2Gb/4Gb environment, QLogic
HBAs detect the link rate that each target can support. This
enables QLogic 4Gb HBAs to fully support incumbent 1Gb and 2Gb
technologies and transmit data simultaneously at maximum
performance.
-- Out Of Order Frame Reassembly -- Only HBAs from QLogic reassemble
frames within an exchange in the correct order, even though they
may have been received out of order. This improves performance
by eliminating the need to retransmit the entire I/O block.
For Better 4Gb Scalability:
-- Virtual SAN (VSAN) -- This QLogic exclusive allows a single HBA
to read VSAN tags in packets sent from a Cisco MDS switch. As a
result, QLogic HBAs can support multiple VSANs, each with a
completely isolated fabric topology and set of fabric services
including name server, zone server, domain controller, alias
server and login server.
For Better 4Gb Reliability:
-- Overlapping Protection Domains -- This QLogic exclusive feature
ensures that data is not left unprotected, even for the smallest
fraction of time, by generating a new check of parity or ECC
before stripping out the old check. This offers a superior level
of protection, well beyond traditional implementations.
-- HBA Failover with Linux -- To protect data even if there is a
component failure, QLogic uniquely offers Linux drivers that
provide customers with automatic failover and fail back between
redundant HBAs.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium business and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic's products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com.
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