QLogic 2600 Series The 2600 Series Adapters are QLogic’s sixth generation Fibre Channel Adapters. They boast industry-leading native Fibre Channel performance—achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low CPU utilization with full hardware offloads. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers. In addition, support for powerful virtualization features make this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs). he QLogic 2600 Series Adapters have the unique capability of transforming from a 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter to a 10GbE Converged Network Adapter that supports NIC, FCoE, and iSCSI traffic. Based on QLogic’s I/OFlex technology, the adapter’s flexibility simplifies and reduces cost for customers who want to deploy a Fibre Channel SAN today and migrate to an Ethernet SAN in the future.
16Gbps fibre channel per port maximum throughput for high bandwidth storage area network (SAN) traffic
Over 1.2 million IOPS reduce latency in high transaction intensive applications and virtualized environments
Reduced hardware, cabling, and management costs by enabling more applications (virtual machines) to run on a single server and Fibre Channel port
Decreased power and cooling costs by using the fewest PCI Express lanes in PCIe Gen3 environments
Overlapping protection domains (OPD) to ensure a high level of reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus and Fibre Channel network
Complete investment protection for legacy 8Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel infrastructure
Future-proof design enables conversion to a 10GbE Converged Network Adapter

QLE2670-CK (single port)
QLE2672-CK (dual port)
• Ships in an individually packed box with a standardsize bracket and a spare low-profile bracket
• Ships with SR optical transceivers installed