QLE2360 - Qlogic Corporation

SANblade

2-Gbps Fibre Channel to

PCI Express Host Bus Adapters

QLE2360/

™

QLE2362

PCI Express

Fibre Channel

Host Bus Adapters

2-Gbps Fibre Channel to PCI-Express Host Bus Adapters

Features

•2-Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) to PCI Express x4 host bus adapter (HBA)

•Native support for all major operating systems, including Microsoft™

Windows 2003, Red Hat™ Linux, and SuSE® Linux

•Single and dual channel versions maximize performance and take

advantage of PCI Express slots

•Autonegotiation of Fibre Channel speed (1 Gbps or 2 Gbps)

•Concurrent support for SCSI and IP protocols

•HBA and LUN level failover

•Local and remote management

•Load balancing for optimized performance

•Enhanced beacon/LED indicators

•Proactive failure detection and alerts

•Enhanced SANsurfer Management Suite™ software combines remote

and local FC switch and HBA management functionality in a single,

central console

WHY QLOGIC? QLogic® HBAs have been deployed in major server

and storage OEMs and are known for their robustness, reliability, and

performance. QLogic supports PCI Express with the QLE2360 (single

FC port) and QLE2362 (dual FC port) PCI Express to 2-Gbps Fibre

Channel HBAs. These FC HBAs are targeted for servers in direct

attached storage (DAS) as well as storage area network (SAN)

environments.

WHY PCI EXPRESS? PCI Express is a serial host bus that provides

higher throughputs, lower pin counts, and ease of scalability. This

technology is being adopted by major server OEMs. PCI Express x4,

supported by the QLE2360/2362, provides 2-GBps host bus speeds,

addressing increasing higher throughput requirements.

HIGHER PERFORMANCE. The QLE2360/2362 has an enhanced RISC

processor on the FC controller chip, providing up to 160,000 I/Os per

second by having completely independent, internal resources for

each port.

EASY MANAGEMENT. The QLogic SANsurfer Management Suite

supports the QLE2360/2362 and is available free of charge. This

full-featured GUI combines the management of FC HBAs and switches

into a single console for remote and local management. Some of the

software’s features include load balancing, failover, LUN masking,

and target persistent binding.

The QLE2360/2362 is fully compliant with SNIA API.

Enhanced beacon/LED indicators reduce time and effort for

diagnostics and HBA management, thus reducing total cost of

ownership.

PROVEN ARCHITECTURE. The QLE2360/2362 architecture is the

result of more than 15 years of progressive development and testing;

affirming the QLogic commitment to research and development.

Proven architecture from QLogic delivers higher overall reliability and

enables advanced functionality, placing QLogic years ahead of its

competitors. The QLE2360/2362 has proven interoperability with all

major software applications, hardware platforms, and operating

systems.

THE BOTTOM LINE. Driving the standard for interoperability with

extensive FC testing in SAN environments, you can feel confident

choosing the QLogic solution.

SANblade

QLE2360/

QLE2362

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

PX2458001-00 C 06/04 PRELIMINARY

Host Bus Interface Specifications

Speed 2.5 GHz PCI Express x4

Voltage 3.3 V

Compliance PCI Express Base Specification rev. 1.0a, PCI Express Card Electromechanical Specification rev. 1.0, PCI Local Bus Specification rev. 2.3, PCI Bus Power Management Interface

Specification rev. 1.1

Fibre Channel Specifications

Speed 200 MBps maximum at half-duplex, 400 MBps maximum at full-duplex

Compliance Second Generation FC Generic Services Definition (FC-GS-2), Third Generation FC Generic Services Definition (FC-GS-3), Fibre Channel-Physical and Signaling Interface (FC-PH),

SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol (SCSI-FCP), Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop-2 (FC-AL-2), Fibre Channel-Private Loop Direct Attach Technical Report (FC-PLDA), RFC 2625 IP and APR

Over Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling (FC-FS), SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM), and SCSI-3 Controller Command Set

Topology FC-AL, FC-AL-2, point to point, switched fabric (FL_Port and F_Port)

Class of service Class 3 Fibre Channel service

Protocol SCSI-FCP, IP, FC-TAPE

Buffer credits For 512-byte frame size, 9 credits issued. For 2K-byte frame size, 3 credits issued.

Physical Specifications

Ports One (QLE2360)

Two (QLE2362)

Media Multimode optic

Optics Short wave laser

Form factor Half size: 16.76 cm×11.12 cm (6.6"×4.376")

Bracket size Standard size

Connectors LC-style connectors that support non-OFC, multimode fibre optic cabling using a small form factor optical transceiver modules (one in the QLE2360, two in the QLE2362)

Environment and Equipment Specifications

Airflow TBD

Temperature TBD

Humidity Relative (noncondensing): 10% to 90%, Storage: 5% to 95%

Power

consumption

TBD

Distance 1 Gbps: 500 meters 50/125 µm fiber, 300 meters 62.5/125 µm fiber

2 Gbps: 300 meters 50/125 µm fiber, 150 meters 62.5/125 µm fiber

Cable 50/125µm multimode fiber, 62.5/125 µm multimode fiber

Software

SANblade

Manager

Easy to use, Java-based, configuration, diagnostics and analysis HBA management application for heterogeneous SAN management across multiple hosts. Includes failover, LUN

masking, and persistent binding capabilities.

SANblade Control

Wizard-based application provided for installation, configuration, persistent binding, and diagnostic functions on the local host.

SANblade CLI Command line interface (CLI) based application provided for installation, configuration, persistent binding, and diagnostic functions on the local host.

Operating system

drivers

Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 2000, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit), Novell NetWare

Flash utilities Configuration utilities resident with boot code (BIOS and EFI)

Boot support Intel x86: BIOS (32-bit), EFI (64-bit)

Ordering Information

QLE2360 Ships to OEMs and channel in an individually packed box with a standard size bracket.

QLE2360-BK Ships to OEMs in a bulk box in quantities of 20, 50, or 100 with a standard size bracket.

QLE2362 Ships to OEMs and channel in an individually packed box with a standard size bracket.

QLE2362-BK Ships to OEMs in a bulk box in quantities of 20, 50, or 100 with a standard size bracket.

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