Marvell Fibre Channel

Marvell QLogic 2690 Series Fibre Channel Adapters

Enhanced Gen 5 FC (16GFC) fibre channel adapters in single, dual and quad ports providing industry leading native FC performance with low CPU usage and full hardware offloads

The Marvell® QLogic® 2690 Series of Enhanced Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) adapters comprise a complete portfolio of single, dual, and quad-port adapters, designed for enterprise data centers requiring the ultimate in FC performance, power efficiency, reliability, and investment protection for demanding virtualized and private cloud environments. These adapters deliver the industry’s leading FC performance with up to 2.6 million IOPS (up to 650K IOPS per port) with optimal load balancing and linear performance scalability per port. The QLogic port-isolation design provides independent data paths for each port, prevents errors and firmware crashes from propagating across all ports. It also extends predictable and scalable performance across all ports. The 2690 Series adapters support QLogic StorFusion™ technology offering comprehensive port diagnostics, rapid provisioning, and guaranteed performance service level agreements (SLAs), and SAN congestion mitigation with FPINs when used in conjunction with Brocade® Gen 5 FC Fabric. QLogic 2690 Series adapters provide unmatched operational efficiency with up to 75% lower power per port compared to the competition for reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). They also leverage QLogic StarPower™ technology with dynamic and adaptive power management features to optimize power and thermal footprints in the data center.

Key Features

  • Powerful virtualization features, making this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs).
  • Industry-leading native FC performance with extremely low CPU usage leveraging full hardware offloads for next-generation, performance-sensitive virtualized workloads
  • 16GFC FC per port maximum throughput for high-bandwidth SAN traffic and low latency to maximize all-flash array (AFA) technology
  • Higher per port performance than traditional Gen 5 FC with up to 650K IOPS per port (up to 1.3 million IOPS for dual-port and up to 2.6 million IOPS for quad-port)
  • Lower operational expenditures (OPEX) with 75% lower power requirements and 75% greater power efficiency
  • Total cost of ownership (TCO) increases with QLogic StorFusion™ technology, by easing troubleshooting with end-to-end diagnostics, rapid deployment of new or expanding operations, and with QoS to help manage data & traffic to proper levels
  • Universal SAN Congestion Mitigation (USCM) to help pinpoint and prevent SAN Congestion utilizing Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPIN) technology
  • High-availability port isolation architecture for 100% predictable, deterministic, and scalable performance
  • Overlapping protection domains (OPD) to ensure a high level of reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus and FC network
  • FC-NVMe capability for simultaneous access to NVMe™ and FCP Storage on the same port


Product Comparison Tables

PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION DOCUMENTATION
QLE2690-SR-CK PCIe 3.0, x8, Single / 1-port, 16GFC, SR-Optic, SFP+, Low Profile Product Brief
QLE2692-SR-CK PCIe 3.0, x8, Dual / 2-ports, 16GFC, SR-Optic, SFP+, Low Profile Product Brief
QLE2694-SR-CK PCIe 3.0, x8, Quad / 4-ports, 16GFC, SR-Optic, SFP+, Full Height Product Brief
QLE2694L-CK PCIe 3.0, x8, Quad / 4-ports, 16GFC, SR-Optic, SFF+, Low Profile Product Brief

 

Technologies

NVMe Over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe)
StorFusion Technology

From the Marvell Blog

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Partnerships: OEM

Dell Technologies
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

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