QLogic QLE2690-DEL Dual Port 16Gb Fiber Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Product Introduction

product overview

            QLogic QLE2690-DEL is a high-performance dual port 16Gb Fiber Channel (16GFC)  host bus adapter designed specifically for enterprise storage area networks (SANs). This HBA adopts PCIe 3.0 interface, providing ultra-low latency and high throughput, suitable for critical business environments such as virtualization, databases, cloud computing, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Key Features

High performance 16GFC connection

            Supports dual port 16Gb/s fiber channel, with each port providing 1600MB/s full duplex bandwidth

            Backward compatibility with 8Gb/s and 4Gb/s, ensuring compatibility with existing SAN infrastructure

            Ultra low latency, optimized for financial transactions, real-time data analysis and other applications

           Enterprise level reliability and redundancy

         Supports multi-path I/O (MPIO), providing fault switching and load balancing

          End to end data integrity protection (CRC check) to prevent data corruption

         Compliant with FC-PI-6 standard and compatible with mainstream storage systems (EMC, NetApp, HPE, Dell, etc.)

Advanced storage function

        Support NVMe over Fiber Channel (NVMe/FC) to enhance SSD storage performance

Hardware accelerated SCSI and NVMe protocol offloading to reduce CPU overhead

Support Target Mode, which can be used for storage virtualization and SAN Boot

Optimized Energy Efficiency Design

          Adopting low-power ASIC technology, the full load power consumption is only 10W

Support dynamic power management, automatically reduce frequency and save energy when idle

        Flexible deployment options

       PCIe 3.0 x8 interface, compatible with PCIe 2.0 slots

      SFP+optical module interface, supporting short wave (SWL) and long wave (LWL) modules

       technical specifications

        Number of ports: 2 independent 16Gb FC ports

        Host interface: PCIe 3.0 x8 (compatible with x8/x16 slots)

         Protocol support: FC-FS-3, FC-LS2, FCP-4, NVMe/FC

        Maximum power consumption: 10W (typical load)

        Working temperature: 0 ° C to 55 ° C

        Dimensions: Full height/half height baffle optional (suitable for rack and blade servers)

        4K/8K video editing and media storage (high bandwidth, low latency requirements)

Application scenarios

          Enterprise virtualization (VMware HANA, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer)

High performance databases (Oracle RAC, SQL Server, SAP HANA)

            Cloud computing storage connectivity (OpenStack, Kubernetes persistent storage)

4K/8K video editing and media storage (high bandwidth, low latency requirements)

Model Description

          The suffix 'DEL' indicates that the model is a dealer enhanced version, which may include:

         Customized firmware optimization

          Extended warranty or exclusive technical support

         Management and Monitoring

        Support QLogic SANsurfer GUI/CLI management tool

         Integrate SNMP and REST APIs for centralized monitoring

         Provide detailed performance statistics and fault diagnosis functions

         Operating System compatibility

         Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022

          Linux（RHEL、SLES、Ubuntu、CentOS）

         VMware ESXi 6.5/6.7/7.0/8.0

         Solaris 10/11