QLE2742-HP Product Introduction
QLE2742-HP (HPE StoreFabric SN1600Q) is a dual-port Gen 6 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA), based on QLogic/Marvell QLE2742 chipset. It is designed for enterprise SAN, all-flash storage arrays and virtualized server environments, delivering high IOPS, low latency and hardware offload to reduce server CPU overhead.
Key Specifications
- Model: QLE2742-HP (SN1600Q)
- Ports: Dual SFP+ Fibre Channel ports
- Speed: 32Gb/s Gen6 Fibre Channel per port; backward compatible with 16Gb / 8Gb / 4Gb FC
- Host Interface: PCIe 3.0 x8
- Connector: SFP+ slot, requires 32G FC optical transceivers
- Brackets: Full-height bracket, low-profile bracket included
- Max IOPS: Up to 650,000 IOPS per port
- Technology: QLogic StorFusion, Forward Error Correction (FEC)
Main Features
1.Gen 6 32G Fibre Channel Performance: Next-gen FC storage connectivity to eliminate I/O bottlenecks for all-flash enterprise storage systems.
2.StorFusion Technology: Simplifies SAN provisioning, provides hardware QoS, built-in FEC to correct transmission errors and enhance link stability.
3.Full Hardware Offload: FC protocol processing offloaded to adapter hardware, minimizing CPU consumption under heavy storage I/O workloads.
4.High Availability & Redundancy: Dual-port design supports multipathing (MPIO), for failover and load balancing in mission-critical SAN environments.
5.Virtualization Ready: Optimized for VMware, KVM and other virtualization platforms, supports boot-from-SAN.
6.Broad OS Support: Compatible with Windows Server, RHEL, SUSE Linux, VMware ESXi and major enterprise hypervisors.
Typical Application Scenarios
Enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN), all-flash array connectivity, database servers, virtualization hosts, mission-critical business systems, backup and disaster recovery infrastructure.
- Dual SFP+ ports, Gen6 32Gb Fibre Channel, backward compatible to 16G/8G/4G FC
- PCIe 3.0 x8 interface, QLogic StorFusion technology with FEC
- Hardware FC offload to cut server CPU utilization, up to 650K IOPS per port
- Dual-port for MPIO failover and load balancing for SAN redundancy
- Boot-from-SAN support, ideal for database, virtualization and all-flash storage
- Includes full-height and low-profile brackets for rack server installation
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