Qlogic SANblade QLA2342L Quick start guide

Brand: Qlogic

Model: SANblade QLA2342L

Type: Quick start guide

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C A S E S T U D Y

VERITAS

Interoperable Solutions Form the

Core of VERITAS-QLogic Partnership

Partnership

Data Protection

Solution

SAN components

QLogic SANbox2-64

QLogic QLA234x HBA

Applications

VERITAS NetBackup

Sun Solaris

Microsoft Windows 2000

With both companies actively demonstrating strong commitment toward

product interoperability and solving customer needs, VERITAS Software Corp.

and QLogic Corp. beneﬁt from a winning partnership that ultimately provides

the answers to the IT questions of today, for small business and enterprise

users in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments worldwide.

VERITAS — the world’s leading storage software company providing data

protection, storage management, high availability and disaster recovery

software — has established the VERITAS Enabled

™

Program. This innovative

technology partner program has resulted in a broad spectrum of interoperable

solutions by offering standardized testing tools, APIs and development

assistance along with a cooperative support model to efﬁciently address our

customers’ support requirements.

QLogic simpliﬁes networking storage with controller chips, host bus adapters

(HBAs), network switches and management software that move data from the

storage device through the fabric to the server. QLogic has also established the

SAN Interoperability Guide — a one-stop Web-based manual for developers

and consultants to identify multi-vendor certiﬁcation information for switches

and HBAs, as well as products powered by embedded QLogic technology.

Working together, VERITAS and QLogic provide our mutual customers with

supported solutions that are achieved as a result of the close engineering

relationship between the companies. QLogic’s proven storage hardware and

VERITAS’ industry leading data protection software offer SAN users the ideal

combination of performance, cost reduction and ease of use. The most-

recent evidence of this team partnership appeared when VERITAS qualiﬁed

QLogic’s family of Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure products for use with

VERITAS NetBackup.

“Extensive qualiﬁcation testing of QLogic’s Fibre Channel products with VERITAS’

industry-leading backup and recovery software ensures the highest levels of re-

liability and interoperability for heterogeneous SANs,” “VERITAS Data Protection

Software combined with QLogic’s proven storage hardware offers a robust and

cost-effective solution for protecting critical data.”

– Bob Maness, senior director of product marketing, VERITAS Software

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C A S E S T U D Y

Protect your Data with VERITAS and QLogic

VERITAS and QLogic realize that a company’s data is likely its most

critical asset. Indeed, most IT departments agree, and have come to

the conclusion that a costeffective and efﬁcient backup strategy must

be put into place to protect vital business information. By establishing

state-of-the-art hardware and software protection VERITAS and

QLogic provide effective SAN strategies that reduce the chance of

data loss and business failure.

A SAN —only as strong as its weakest link — is a separate network

dedicated to storage, enabling disk and tape storage to be isolated

from the LAN. A complete SAN solution includes hardware, software

and networking components that provide any-to-any interconnection

of server and storage elements. SANs link multiple storage systems

and servers over a secure, high-speed network that is datacentric

rather than server-centric.

Three vital components compose the VERITAS-QLogic complete solution.

VERITAS NetBackup automates all aspects of backup, recovery and

automated system restore, centralizing management of storage

resources. To dynamically share tape drives and perform zero-

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impact backups of business critical systems, NetBackup Shared

Storage Option and NetBackup ServerFree Agent leverage a high

per forming SAN infrastructure.

QLogic’s Award-winning QLogic SANblade 2Gb Fibre Channel

HBAs offer high performance for demanding storage area

networks (SANs) and are available in PCIX form factor, which

is backward- compatible to PCI. QLogic SANblade HBAs are

the industry’s highest-performing and most widely deployed

host adapter solutions for server, networking, storage and

clustering solutions.

QLogic’s SANbox2-64 modular fabric switch provides all the beneﬁts

of edge and Director technology — high port count, modularity and

scalability, low port cost, ease of use and high integration — in

one costeffective piece of technology. The SANbox-2-64 scalable

architecture provides entry-level 16-port conﬁguration to a full non-

blocking 64 ports.

QLogic HBAs and switches, combined with VERITAS’ NetBackup

solutions, deliver enterprise-level performance, reliability

and interoperability.

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their respective holders. Information supplied by QLogic Corporation is believed to be accurate and reliable. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors in this brochure. QLogic Corporation reserves the right, without notice, to make changes

in product design or speciﬁcations.

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