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Qlogic and Microsoft Virtualization

QLogic has been an early supporter for Microsoft Virtualization technologies starting with storage networking solutions for Microsoft Windows Virtual Server 2005 and now Hyper-V.

QLogic’s long association with Microsoft Virtualization technologies started with virtual Fibre Channel HBA technology known as N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) in Virtual Server 2005 and SCVMM 2007. NPIV simplifies the task of migrating virtual machines by the migration of the machine’s associated NPIV ports between host servers.

QLogic’s I/O benchmarking efforts on Hyper-V demonstrated the superior performance of Hyper-V’s microkernelized architecture for I/O intensive workloads when paired with QLogic’s FC HBAs. The QLogic 8 Gb HBA and Hyper-V achieved near-native I/O performance, delivering 180,000 IOPs -- beating previous benchmarks.

QLogic PowerShell scripts simplify virtual HBA port administration by enabling the creation, viewing, or deletion of virtual HBA NPIV ports.

QLogic released the “Fibre Channel HBA VM Migration Guide” for Hyper-V. This guide describes how and why data center administrators should deploy the QLogic FC HBA NPIV solution for Hyper-V environments. It also describes the QLogic and Microsoft management tools that will enable migration of Virtual Machines using Fibre Channel NPIV technology.

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As Fibre Channel (FC) technology evolves into a new generation of 8Gb products, it is imperative that a scalable architecture be deployed to meet a full spectrum of concerns beyond cost, performance, and backwards compatibility. The modern data center is faced with ever-growing demands in the areas of virtualization; power consumption; reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS); security; and manageability.

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