QLogic demonstrates ‘supercharged performance’

“QLogic extends the benefits of flash cache to virtual environments using our FabricCache caching SAN adapter, and we are excited to demonstrate these benefits live, for the first time, to IT professionals and virtualization experts across Europe,” said Henrik Hansen, director of marketing, EMEA, QLogic. “We view FabricCache as nothing short of a game-changer, because it non-disruptively overcomes I/O performance issues in both virtualized and clustered applications without organizations having to re-engineer entire IT infrastructures.”

QLogic FabricCache Adapters Provide New Performance Benefits for ESX Clusters
Clustered and highly virtualized servers have created some of the most performance-challenged environments in today’s enterprise. Named by CRN as one of “The 10 Coolest Flash Storage Products of 2013,” the QLogic FabricCache adapter ushers in a new era of enterprise application performance acceleration for SANs, combining a high-performance PCIe flash card with the market-leading QLogic Fibre Channel adapter to create a dramatically simpler, more cost-efficient and sharable server-based cache solution.

Unlike alternative offerings, FabricCache transparently pools individual server caches across multiple, physical servers, so the widest range of mission-critical, virtualized and clustered applications can share flash caching performance benefits. FabricCache also delivers greater ROI while lowering overall total cost-of-ownership (TCO) by leveraging QLogic’s proven Fibre Channel driver, offloading caching functions from the server and integrating seamlessly into existing SAN infrastructure. Live FabricCache demonstrations at VMWorld include OS and hypervisor transparent caching of shared SAN storage and vMotion across physical servers in a VMware ESX cluster while maintaining cached application acceleration performance.