Qlogic QLE8440-CU-CK FastLinQ 8400 Series PCIe to 10GB CNA Adapter

The QLogic FastLinQTM 8400 Series 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) support simultaneous LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (Fibre Channel over Ethernet [FCoE] and iSCSI) traffic at 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) line-rate speeds. The 8400 Series provides extremely low host CPU usage by enabling full hardware offloads. The 8400 Series leverages QLogic’s long-standing industry leadership in Ethernet by providing the highest levels of performance, efficiency, and scalability for the enterprise data center. For more effective utilization of the 10GbE bandwidth, the QLogic FastLinQ 8400 Series CNAs offer switch-independent NIC partitioning (NPAR), which enables segmentation of a single 10GbE port into multiple network partitions and dynamic allocation of bandwidth to each port. The segmentation allows IT organizations to optimize resource utilization while lowering infrastructure and operational expenses (OPEX). The acceleration of data center convergence-triggered by virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), and multitenant cloud computing platforms-demands high-performance, converged network solutions. The QLogic FastLinQ 8400 Series CNAs are the solution of choice for workload intensive computing environments, providing a reliable, high-performance 10GbE connectivity solution.

Features:

• PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x8 (8GT/s) support
• Full line-rate performance across both ports
• Broad OS and hypervisor support
• Network boot support: iSCSI remote boot, FCoE boot from SAN, Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) 2.0
• Switch-independent NPAR with up to four partition assignments per 10GbE link
• MSI and MSI-X support
• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
• PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
• Comprehensive stateless offloads
• Receive side scaling (RSS)
• Transmit side scaling (TSS)
• Support for virtual LAN (vLAN) tagging
• Support for jumbo frames larger than 1,500 bytes (up to 9,600 bytes)
• Datacenter bridging (DCB)