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Applying NIC Partitioning in Converged Network Infrastructures How to Manage NIC Partitioning (NPAR) Functions in a Virtual Environment Executive Summary One of the key areas for a successful server virtualization deployment is providing access to multiple network resources to meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for individual applications. QLogic® has created a demonstration that showcases the ability to apply NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE protocol support characteristics to individual partitions within a VMware® ESXi v5.x environment using a QLogic QLE8242 Converged Network Adapter. The demo incorporates reconfiguration of virtual partitions or NIC Partitioning (NPAR) functions using the QLogic VMware vCenter™ plug-in. Benefits of QLogic NIC-based Virtualization Solutions •• Enable high-density virtual machine (VM) deployments with QLogic converged network solutions •• Provide flexible network resource management with QLogic NPAR technologies, including concurrent, offloaded protocol support for Ethernet, iSCSI, and FCoE •• Improve adapter management efficiency with QLogic’s VMware vCenter plug-in View the “On-demand” Demo •• See a previously recorded version of the demo: http://qlogic.adobeconnect.com/p1nxx5mhgou •• Schedule a future “live” demo: http://qlogic.adobeconnect.com/livedemo/event/registration.html
SOLUTIONS DEMONSTRATION Network NPAR Resource Management
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Challenge: The traditional data center design features dedicated servers that typically support one and only one application. Often times, the applications depend on separate LAN and SAN networks such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and 10Gb Ethernet and require multiple adapters for support. This design is even more prevalent in virtualized environments. In these environments, administrators have several virtual machines (VMs) that depend on the same networks as in traditional data centers. Now that resources are being shared across multiple VMs, this creates greater bandwidth and I/O requirements as well as the need to isolate network channels for VMs running more critical applications.
NIC or iSCSI NIC or FCoE
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Division of Physical Functions
Solution: To address these issues, QLogic has introduced its QLogic 3200/8200 Series Adapters. This provides network and storage administrators the per-VM visibility they need to address the network complexity issues created by server virtualization.
Division of Bandwidth
Figure 1. Virtual Partitions
QoS Provisioning Demo with Four Logical NIC Partitions Exchange SharePoint File Server Web Server
Central to the QLogic solution is the NPAR functionality. NPAR features quality of service (QoS). Enhanced QoS benefits denser compute environments due to the bandwidth allocation of business-critical applications. NPAR’s key benefit is the ability to define multiple virtual adapters per physical port. It is based on the original PCIe® definition that is limited to eight PCI® functions per given device, which maps to four partitions per 10Gb port on a dualport adapter. This enables segregation of a 10Gb Ethernet-based network adapter into multiple logical partitions that can simultaneously support a combination of NIC functions, iSCSI, and FCoE storage protocol instances.
Exchange Clients
LAN 10GbE NIC
SharePoint Clients
File Server Clients
Web Clients
For More Information Figure 2. Demo QoS Reprovisioning
•• QLogic Solutions for Convergence: http://www.qlogic.com/solutions/ Pages/Convergence.aspx
Related Video: Product Demonstration—QLE8242 Converged Network Adapter Featuring NPAR in VMware
•• Contact the QLogic Solutions Lab:
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QLogic’s NPAR Technology Network Interface Virtual Partitions NPAR technology offers flexible bandwidth provisioning of four partitions per port, each sharing a 10GbE connection with the added ability to run multiple protocol functions (NIC, FCoE, and iSCSI) simultaneously over the same connection. NPAR gives IT organizations the enhanced flexibility to support multiple protocols and extends capacity, further reducing network cost. Click on the Image to Watch a YouTube Video
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