SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/-- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable
intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, today
announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has recently
launched new I/O adapters providing server and storage connectivity
to HPE ProLiant and Apollo Gen9 servers based on Cavium's QLogic
Fibre Channel and Ethernet technology. Available now, the HPE
FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter and the HPE StoreFabric
SN1600Q 32GFC HBA enable Enterprise, Telco and Cloud applications
to be accelerated while reducing deployment cost.
QLogic FastLinQ Quad Port 10GBASE-T Adapter for HPE
The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter is the first
4-port 10GbE offering available for the HPE ProLiant and Apollo
Gen9 servers and is designed in HPE's unique Flexible LOM form
factor with 10GBASE-T connections that utilize low cost Cat6a
cables and RJ-45 connections. Eliminating the need for expensive
10GbE SFP+ optic greatly reduces the deployment costs for HPE
customers. The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T adapter provides
standard Ethernet NIC connectivity and is backward compatible with
1GbE for HPE servers.
"Cavium is a leading provider for I/O connectivity for a broad
range of HPE servers," said Raghib
Hussain, Chief Operating Officer, Cavium. "The introduction
of QLogic FastLinQ 4-port 10GBASE-T technology brings low cost
Ethernet connectivity, while the Gen 6 Fibre Channel 32GFC adapter
delivers a high performance and reliable storage interconnect for
world class HPE server infrastructure. This is an important
milestone in enabling Enterprise datacenters and service providers
to increase operational efficiency and application performance
enabling an agile IT infrastructure."
"As customers modernize their data centers by deploying a hybrid
infrastructure, they are looking for versatile solutions. The HPE
FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter provides an affordable
upgrade path from 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T to accelerate our
customers' networking dependent applications from the datacenter to
the cloud," said Tom Lattin, Vice
President of Server Options for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Key Ethernet Technologies and Features
- HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter provides 4-port
10GBASE-T connectivity which is automatically backward compatible
with 1GbE networks.
- Supports both iSCSI and FCoE storage offloads that conserve
server CPU resources giving applications headroom and increasing
virtual machine density.
- Advanced Server Virtualization features that include Single
Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for low latency high performance
virtual workloads.
- Acceleration for Networking Virtualization with Stateless
Offloads for tunneling protocols including NVGRE, VXLAN and
GRE.
QLogic Gen 6 Fibre Channel for HPE
The HPE StoreFabric SN1600Q 32GFC Host Bus Adapter is the first
Gen 6 32GFC offering in the HPE portfolio. This new adapter based
on QLogic 2700 series adapter technology provides HPE customers
with twice the bandwidth and improves database performance with
50-80%[1] more IOPS at common database block sizes when
compared to Gen 5 16GFC offerings.
Key Fibre Channel Features and Benefits
- The HPE StoreFabric SN1600Q 32GFC HBA is available in both
single and dual-port offerings and is shipped by HPE with SFP+
optics included.
- QLogic StorFusion technology and integration with Brocade Gen 5
and Gen 6 Fibre Channel switches and directors simplify SAN
deployment and improve uptime.
- Built-in support for HPE Smart SAN for HPE 3PAR within these
adapters provides fully automated SAN fabric orchestration and
management directly from HPE 3PAR StoreServ flash arrays, saving
hours of manual effort and reducing risk due to human error or
network changes.
- HPE has qualified this adapter to work in select Microsoft
Windows Server and Linux environments and has a strong roadmap of
upcoming operating system qualifications.
- Integration with HPE management utilities like iLO and System
Upgrade Manager (SUM) as well as by QLogic QConvergeConsole™
software utility and VMware plugin available for download at
www.qlogic.com.
All these new adapters were announced by HPE on September 26th and begin shipping in volume
now.
For more information, visit www.hpe.com and
www.qlogic.com
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance
from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality
in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service
Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to
3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps.
Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tools and application support, hardware
reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in
San Jose, CA with design centers
in California, Massachusetts, India, China
and Taiwan.
[1] Source:
http://www.qlogic.com/OEMPartnerships/HP/Documents/Storage/WP-The_Performance_Benefits_of_Gen6_FC_HPE.pdf
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