QLogic Supports OpenStack Platform for Enterprise and Cloud

QLogic Corp. announced that its suite of CNAs, FC adapters and intelligent NICs are compatible with the OpenStack platform.

QLogic 8400 Series CNA

Commonly deployed as an IaaS solution, the OpenStack open-source cloud OS controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data centre.

QLogic solutions interoperate with the OpenStack cloud OS for networking as well as block, file and object storage. Theys are compatible with OpenStack Neutron, Cinder and Swift services for IaaS applications. Designed for next-gen enterprise data centre and cloud deployments, QLogic supports OpenStack I/O services across Ethernet and FC products.

For storage connectivity, QLogic Ethernet CNAs and FC adapters support offloaded iSCSI and high performance FC transports to guarantee peak workload SLAs for performance-sensitive applications, with minimal consumption of expensive processing resources. The core networking and storage services provided by QLogic products enable OpenStack users to focus on building scalable applications and services with a robust underlying infrastructure.

For networking connectivity under Neutron, QLogic will be offering Ethernet solutions that support a comprehensive list of virtualization and multi-tenant services for the most sophisticated enterprise data centres, as well as private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments.

These include:

• NIC Partitioning, which exposes virtual, configurable NICs to applications running in bare-metal, as well as hypervisor environments, enabling application and VM (VM) level SLAs.

• Multi-Queue receive capability that enables CPU load balancing for improved performance

• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) to enforce VM-level traffic isolation

• Tunneling offloads such as Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) enable multi-tenant network scalability and security

“OpenStack technology provides a flexible, cloud-based platform for a range of applications including HPC, big data and IaaS,” said Vikram Karvat, VP of products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “As a Supporting Organization member of the OpenStack Foundation, QLogic looks forward to providing a comprehensive, robust portfolio of I/O solutions that support this open platform to empower users with the greatest possible performance and efficiency.“