Product Brief

Marvell® QLogic® 2500 Series

8GFC-to-PCIe® Fibre Channel Adapters

Marvell QLogic 2500 Series Adapters are designed to meet the business requirements
of the enterprise data center through the very low power consumption while maintain-
ing a high level of performance. These adapters interface to the host server with a PCI
Express® (PCIe) 2.0 bus, ensuring no internal performance bottlenecks.

The 2500 Series 8GFC Adapters provide investment protection with existing SAN
networks and a forward looking migration path with next generation SAN technologies.
Choosing Marvell QLogic 8GFC adapters will not only meet today’s demanding data
center requirements by providing power and virtualization optimization, but investment
protection is built in through backward compatibility with previous generations’ (4GFC
and 2GFC) technology. In addition, 2500 Series Adapters work in both PCIe Gen1 and
Gen2 host bus interface platforms. Marvell’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 limited
warranty.
• Fibre Channel 8GFC-to-PCIe

• 1,600MBps (full-duplex) per Virtualization Optimized

port
The 2500 Series Adapters deliver enhanced security and quality of service (QoS), and
• Up to 200,000 initiator and they enable dynamic provisioning. 2500 Series Adapters also allow multiple logical
target IOPS per port
(virtual) connections to share the same physical port. Each logical connection has its
• StarPower™ technology own resources and the ability to be managed independently.

• Virtualization optimized

• Power optimized
Power Optimized

• RAS optimized The 2500 Series Adapters take advantage of Marvell StarPower technology, ensuring
power efficiency. Marvell StarPower technology offers dynamic and adaptive power
• Security and management management features such as power and bandwidth optimized intelligent PCIe link
optimized
training, low-power switching power supplies, and a thermally efficient layout requiring
lower airflows.

Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (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,
2500 Series Adapters use enhanced hardware assist firmware tracing (EHAFT), allowing
more comprehensive debugging with standard drivers.

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Security Optimized
The 2500 Series Adapters support fabric-level isolation (NPIV) and end-to-end data
integrity (T10).

Management Optimized
A single common driver per OS for generations of Fibre Channel adapters simplifies
deployment. Marvell’s unified driver model (firmware embedded in the driver) eliminates
potential interoperability issues between firmware and driver versions. The
2500 Series Adapters’ API compatibility accelerates deployment while ensuring applica-
tion compatibility.

Simplified Setup
Point-and-click installation and configuration wizards simplify the adapter setup
process. Storage administrators can quickly deploy adapters across a SAN using
standard adapter management tools and device utilities. The 2500 Series Adapters are
also fully compatible with industry-standard APIs—including the SNIA HBA API and
SMI-S—that allow administrators to manage Marvell adapters using third-party
software applications.

Comprehensive OS Support
Marvell offers the broadest range of support for all major OSs to ensure OS and
hardware server compatibility. Drivers are fully tested and available for Windows®,
Linux®, and VMware® ESX®. A single driver strategy per OS allows storage administra-
tors to easily deploy and manage adapters in heterogeneous SAN configurations.
Marvell’s driver suite supports all major hardware server platforms.

Leadership, Confidence, and Trust

Marvell is the undisputed leader in FC adapters, with over 20 years of experience, 20+
million ports shipped, and multiple generations of FC products that have been qualified
by all major server OEMs. Marvell owns the most established, proven FC stack in the
industry with more FC ports shipped than any other vendor.

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Fibre Channel Specifications Host Bus Adapter Specifications Agency Approvals­—EMI and EMC
(Class A)
Negotiation Airflow
US and Canada
• 8/4/2Gbps auto-negotiation • No airflow required
• FCC Rules,CFR Title 47, Part 15, Subpart
Class A
IOPS Power Consumption
• Industry Canada, ICES-003: Class A
• Up to 200,000 initiator and target IOPS per • QLE2560: 5.5 watts (typical)
port
• QLE2562: 6.2 watts (typical) Europe

Class of Service • QLE2564 and QLE2564L: 13 watts (typical) • EN55022

• 2 and 3 • EN55024
Form Factor
• EN61000-3-2
Topology • QLE2560, QLE2562, and QLE2564L
• EN61000-3-3
‒ Low-profile PCIe cards (6.6in. × 2.54in.)
• FC-AL, FC-AL2, point-to-point, and switched
fabric • QLE2564 Japan
‒ Full-height PCIe card (6.6in. × 4.376in.) • VCCI: Class A
Protocols
• FCP-3-SCSI Temperature New Zealand and Australia
• FC-Tape (FCP-2) • Operating: 0°C to 55°C (32°F to 131°F) • AS/NZS: Class A
• Non-operating: –40°C to 70°C (-40°F to
Cable Distances 158°F) Korea
• Multimode optic: • KC-RRA Class A
Relative Humidity
Cable and Distance (m) • Operating, non-condensing: 10% to 90% Taiwan
Rate
OM1 OM2 OM3 • Non-operating, non-condensing: 5% to 93% • BSMI CNS 13438
2GFC 150 300 500
RoHS Compliance
4GFC 70 150 380 Ordering Information
• RoHS 6
8GFC 21 50 150 QLE2560 (Single Port)
Tools and Utilities • Ships in an individually packed box with a
PCI Express Interface standard-size bracket and a spare low profile
Management Tools bracket
Compliance • Ships with SR optical transceiver installed
• QConvergeConsole: Unified management
• PCI Express Base Specification, rev. 2.0 tool (CLI) for adapter configuration and
management QLE2562 (Dual Port)
• PCI Express Card Electromechanical
Specification, rev. 2.0 • Ships in an individually packed box with a
Device Utilities standard-size bracket and a spare low profile
• PCI Bus Power Management Interface
Specification, rev. 1.2 • Utilities for flashing boot code bracket

• PCI Hot Plug Specification, rev. 1.0 • Ships with SR optical transceivers installed
Boot Support
Physical and Electrical QLE2564 (Quad Port)
• BIOS, FCode, and extensible firmware
interface (EFI) • Ships in an individually packed box with a
• PCIe x8 physical connector
standard-size bracket
• StarPower link training: APIs • Ships with SR optical transceivers installed
‒ Maximum x4 lanes for Gen 2.0 rate
• SNIA HBA API V2, SMI-S, and FDMI
‒ Maximum x8 lanes for Gen1 rate QLE2564L (Quad Port)
Operating Systems • Ships in an individually packed box with a low
Connectivity • For the latest applicable operating system profile bracket
information, see www.marvell.com • Ships with SR optical transceivers installed
Ports
• QLE2560: single 8Gbps Fibre Channel Agency Approvals—Safety
• QLE2562: dual 8Gbps Fibre Channel
US and Canada
• QLE2564 and QLE2564L: quad 8Gbps Fibre
Channel • UL 60950-1
• CSA C22.2

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