QLogic® solutions interoperate with the OpenStack cloud operating system for networking as well as block, file and object storage. QLogicsolutions are compatible with OpenStack Neutron, Cinder and Swift services for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) applications. Designed for next-generation enterprise data centre and cloud deployments, QLogic supports OpenStack I/O services across Ethernet and Fibre Channel products.
For storage connectivity, QLogic Ethernet CNAs and Fibre Channel adapters support fully offloaded iSCSI and the highest performance Fibre Channel transports in the industry to guarantee peak workload service-level agreements (SLAs) for performance-sensitive applications, with minimal consumption of expensive processing resources. The core networking and storage services provided by QLogic products enable OpenStack users to focus on building scalable applications and services with a robust underlying infrastructure.
For networking connectivity under Neutron, QLogic will be offering Ethernet solutions that support a comprehensive list of virtualization and multi-tenant services for the most sophisticated enterprise data centres, as well as private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments. These include:
NIC Partitioning, which exposes virtual, configurable NICs to applications running in bare-metal, as well as hypervisor environments, enabling application and virtual machine (VM) level SLAs.
Multi-Queue receive capability that enables CPU load balancing for improved performance
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) to enforce VM-level traffic isolation
Tunneling offloads such as Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) enable multi-tenant network scalability and security
“OpenStack technology provides a flexible, cloud-based platform for a range of applications including high performance computing, big data and IaaS,” said Vikram Karvat, vice president of products, marketing and planning, QLogic. “As a Supporting Organization member of the OpenStack Foundation, QLogic looks forward to providing a comprehensive, robust portfolio of I/O solutions that support this open platform to empower users with the greatest possible performance and efficiency.”