Cavium QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet and FC Technologies Pairs With HPE

Cavium, Inc., announced that a broad portfolio of its next generation QLogic FC and Ethernet technologies are available on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Synergy Composable Infrastructure blade server platform.

HP branded QLogic adapters

Synergy is a platform architected for Composable Infrastructure – built from the ground up to bridge traditional and new IT with the agility, speed and continuous delivery needed for today’s applications.

Cavium QLogic is an I/O innovator with HPE on the HPE Synergy platform and is the exclusive provider of 10GbE and 20GbE I/O with the HPE Synergy 2820C and HPE Synergy 3820C Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). QLogic technology also provides 16Gb FC connectivity for HPE Synergy customers with the HPE Synergy 3830C 16Gb FC Adapter. In addition, FastLinQ Ethernet technology provides the internal networking within the HPE Synergy frame with the QLogic 57840S ASIC LOM on the Synergy Composer modules, which delivers the necessary scalability and flexibility required to build the composable infrastructure and provides iSCSI SAN connectivity within the HPE Synergy frame.

QLogic I/O Technologies for HPE Synergy include:

The Synergy 2820C 10Gb CNA is a key element in HPE Composable fabric connecting pools of compute resources to networks with reliable converged 10GbE connectivity. With Flex-10 Technology, it converges Ethernet and FCoE onto a single connection simplifying hardware and reducing costs. Concurrent with storage I/O functionality this adapter also enables single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) capabilities for networking functions.
The Synergy 3820C 10/20Gb CNA is another key element in HPE Composable fabric connecting pools of compute resources to networks with reliable, high-performing converged 10GbE or 20GbE connectivity. With Flex-20 Technology, it converges Ethernet, iSCSI and FCoE onto a single connection, simplifying hardware management and reducing costs by up to 60%. The Synergy 3820C is a choice for any virtualized or converged data center.
Designed for the HPE Synergy Composable fabric, Synergy 3830C 16Gb FC HBA connects Synergy compute resource pools to SANs over 16Gb native FC fabrics. It provides connectivity to Synergy Virtual Connect FC Modules and Brocade FC Switch Modules. It supports virtualization, security, port isolation, dynamic power management and low CPU utilization features. QLogic StorFusion technology built in the 3830C integrates with Brocade Gen 5 16Gb FC fabrics enabling rapid deployment and orchestration, diagnostic and improved reliability and resiliency for Synergy frames connecting to shared SAN storage. Doubling the I/O performance of 8Gb FC HBAs, the 3830C is for FC storage intensive workloads.
Cavium QLogic 57840S ASIC LOM on the Synergy Composer modules which utilizes the QLogic NIC partitioning (NPAR) technology to virtualize the physical connections within the Synergy Composer which in turn delivers the necessary scalability and flexibility required to build the composable infrastructure.

The expanded suite of FC and Ethernet-based adapters for HPE Synergy are available.

More information on QLogic HPE partnership

“Cavium QLogic is a strategic partner for HPE,” said Raghib Hussain COO, Cavium. “The introduction of HPE’s flagship Synergy platform and QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet and Gen 5 FC adapters is a major milestone in this partnership. Now, Enterprise datacenters and service providers can increase operational velocity, deliver frictionless IT and reduce costs.“

“With HPE Synergy, compute, storage and fabric are now always available as single pools of resources that can be instantly configured according to the specific needs of each application,” said Tom Lattin, VP of server options, HPE. “The Synergy Ethernet adapters developed through our partnership with Cavium QLogic deliver a robust feature set and advanced performance offload capability which enables HPE customers to realize the true potential of the HPE Synergy Composable infrastructure.“