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Data Sheet
OVERVIEW
The 2500 Series Adapters are designed to meet the business requirements
of the enterprise data center through the lowest possible power
consumption and the highest level of performance. These adapters
interface to the host server with a PCIe
®
Gen2 bus, ensuring no internal
performance bottlenecks.
The 2500 Series 8Gb Adapters are the highest performing adapters in
QLogic’s industry-leading Fibre Channel technology portfolio. Choosing
QLogic’s 8Gb adapters will not only meet the needs of today’s demanding
data center requirements by providing power and virtualization
optimization, but investment protection is built in through backward
compatibity with previous generations’ (4Gb and 2Gb) technology. In
addition, the 2500 Series Adapters work in both PCI Express
®
Gen1 and
Gen2 host bus interface platforms. QLogic’s unique Dynamic Power
Management technology enables the 2500 Series Adapters to provide the
lowest possible power consumption. The 2500 Series Adapters are also
backed by an industry-leading 5-year (no charge) limited warranty—
visit http://www.qlogic.com/Support/Pages/Warranty.aspx for details.
VIRTUALIZATION OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters deliver enhanced security, quality of service
(QoS), and enable dynamic provisioning. The 2500 Series Adapters also
allow multiple logical (virtual) connections to share the same physical
port. Each logical connection has its own resources and the ability to be
managed independently.
POWER OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters take advantage of QLogic StarPower technology,
ensuring power efciency. QLogic StarPower technology offers dynamic
and adaptive power management features such as power and bandwidth
optimized intelligent PCI Express link training, low-power switching power
supplies, and thermally efcient layout requiring lower airows.
RAS OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters provide the highest data integrity by ensuring
overlapping protection domains (OPDs) on both the control and data paths.
In addition, the 2500 Series Adapters use enhanced hardware assist
rmware tracing (EHAFT), allowing more comprehensive debugging with
standard drivers.
SECURITY OPTIMIZED
The 2500 Series Adapters support SAN-level authentication (FC-SP) fabric-
level isolation (NPIV), and end-to-end data integrity (T10).
• Fibre Channel Express
• 1600MBps (full-duplex) per port
• 200,000 initiator and target IOPS per port
• StarPower™ technology
• Virtualization optimized
• Power optimized
• Reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) optimized
• Security optimized
• Management optimized. Deployments managed through
QConvergeConsole
®
management applications (GUI and CLI)
2500 Series
8Gb-to-PCIe Fibre Channel Adapters
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