What is qlogic isp

QLogic Fibre Channel FC offers best-in-class performance and functionality for storage area networks. Designed for server deployment and orchestration, the availability of multiple ports with concurrent FCP and FC-NVMe configurations enable optimal flexibility.

The HBAs are designed using isolated paths for each port that enable the delivery of deterministic line rate performance per port and exceptional reliability. The adapters deliver millions of IOPS, sub-milliseconds ms latency and full line rate throughput. From enabling NVMe and SSD solutions to protecting data integrity, there is a Marvell QLogic Fibre Channel controller capable of delivering the particular technology enhancements, performance, power utilization, and reliability needed for your SAN storage area network deployments.

Next-generation data-intensive workloads are utilizing low-latency NVMe flash-based storage to meet ever-increasing user demand. By combining the lossless, highly deterministic nature of Fibre Channel with NVMe, FC-NVMe delivers the performance, application response time, and scalability needed for next-generation data centers, while leveraging existing Fibre Channel infrastructures.

Marvell offers Dell Technologies and its customers a broad portfolio of storage and converged infrastructure solutions. Support is available for Public and Private loops, and for point-to-point connections Qlogic only. The newer 2-Gigabit cards , , and 4-Gigabit , are also supported. Command tagging is supported for all in fact, FibreChannel requires tagging. Fabric support is enabled by default for other than cards. FC-Tape is automatically enabled when connecting controller that supports it to a target that supports it.

It may be disabled using configuration and hint options described below. It is strongly recommended that you use the firmware available from ispfw 4 as it is the most likely to have been tested with this driver. They are: hint. Supported values are: lport Prefer loopback and fallback to point to point. For Fibre Channel cards in Local Loop topologies it is strongly recommended that you set this value to non-zero.