ATLANTA, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- 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
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