QLogic 8300 Series Controller - Manual

Data Sheet
Overview
the 8300 Series Controllers are QLogic’s fourth generation of Converged Network Controllers. they boast industry-leading native Fibre
Channel performance—achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low CPU utilization with full
hardware offloads. In addition, the controllers support simultaneous LaN (tCP/IP) and SaN (Fibre Channel over ethernet (FCoe) and
iSCSI) traffic at line rate, 10Gbps ethernet (Gbe) speeds. this extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s
powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.
QLogic’s end-to-end data integrity with overlapping protection domain (OPD) and support for the t10 data integrity field (DIF) makes the
8300 Series Controllers ideal for file- and block-based storage controller applications. the ability to support either 16Gb Fibre Channel
or 10Gbe and multiple protocols simultaneously on the same hardware offers multi-tenancy flexibility, which is ideal for private and
public cloud environments.
8300 Series
Dual-Personality 16Gb Fibre Channel/10GbE to PCIe
Converged Network Controllers