Qlogic SANblade QLA2342 Supplementary Manual

Brand: Qlogic

Model: SANblade QLA2342

Type: Supplementary Manual

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C A S E S T U D Y

Computer

Associates

QLogic Partners with Computer

Associates for SAN Infrastructures

Partnership

Data Protection

Solution

SAN Components

QLogic SANblade

™

QLA2342 HBA

QLogic SANblade QLA2340 HBA

QLogic SANblade QLA2200 HBA

QLogic SANbox2

™

–8

QLogic SANbox2–16

QLogic SANbox2–64

Applications

CA BrightStor

ARCserve Backup

Enterprise Backup

SAN Manager

The key to successfully deploying and selling SAN solutions in today’s market

is through Fibre Channel device and software interoperability.

QLogic partners with Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) to

accelerate joint efforts between QLogic’s SANtrack

™

Strategic Partner

program and CA’s Solutions Partner Program, leveraging resources, strengths,

and experience to deliver worldclass storage management solutions to our

mutual customers.

QLogic Corporation’s industry-leading SANblade Fibre Channel Host Bus

Adapters (HBA) and SANbox switches are fully certiﬁed with CA BrightStor

ARCserve Backup and BrightStor Enterprise Backup storage software for SAN

solutions. QLogic SANblade HBAs and SANbox switches are also supported

in CA’s BrightStor SAN Manager. The combination of these components

allows Fibre Channel HBAs and switches from a single source, QLogic, to be

managed from SAN Manager’s central console.

CA also offers Certiﬁed Solutions that represent the highest quality and

innovation built on CA’s industry-leading technologies. These solutions can

be recognized by the ca smart logo, which certiﬁes interoperability. Based on

close collaboration between CA and QLogic, three families of QLogic’s HBAs

have received the ca smart Seal of Excellence. When you see the ca smart

logo, it indicates interoperability, and assures that CA and QLogic will stand

behind the quality and reliability of the products.

Learn how to protect your data with CA and QLogic

CA and QLogic have aligned to drive business innovations, technology

solutions and best practices for leveraging and protecting customer data by

offering centralized management of storage assets, backup and recovery,

and storage management.

There are three essential components to a software storage strategy: storage

management, storage infrastructure, and data protection. One or more of CA’s

BrightStor applications covers each of these: ARCserve Backup, Enterprise

Backup, SAN Designer, SAN Manager, and Storage Resource Manager.

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C A S E S T U D Y

QLogic SANblade and SANbox products, the world’s broadest

and most innovative line of Fibre Channel HBAs and switches,

complement CA’s BrightStor ARCserve and Enterprise Backup.

Together, they deliver complete data protection and permit an

organization to manage heterogeneous storage environments,

increase scalability, and insure data integrity.

BrightStor SAN Manager allows discovery, visualization, monitoring

and administration of QLogic HBAs and switches. With BrightStor

SAN Manager, storage administrators are assured the optimum

health and availability of their SAN infrastructure and can maximize

the return on their SAN infrastructure and deployment.

The partnership between CA and QLogic spans from small business

integration and will scale to a corporate disaster recovery solution,

offering customers unlimited ﬂexibility. That ﬂexibility is evident

at CA World, the Computer Associates’ annual conference. Great

emphasis at CA World is placed on showcasing the breadth of

CA solutions, with an expansive offering of educational classes,

technical sessions, and business demonstrations on the latest

software storage strategy. The classes feature technical “how to”

lessons and are designed to help individuals realize the full potential

of CA Software.

Each of the BrightStor applications is showcased in the Storage

Pavilion. The BrightStor SAN LAB was designed to offer hands-on

training of BrightStor applications. The BrightStor SAN LAB consists

of 40 SAN attached Classroom PCs, eight SAN attached Windows

servers, eight SAN attached Solaris workstations, and a variety

of tape libraries and multiple SCSI, Fibre Channel and Network

Attached Storage arrays.

QLogic is the exclusive provider of Fibre Channel HBAs for all of

CA World. In total, over 80 QLogic QLA2340 HBAs are featured in

demos being shown in the Storage Pavilion and on servers in the

BrightStor SAN LAB.

CA understands that comprehensive storage management

capabilities are critical to delivering cost-effective, highly available

business services. BrightStor applications give you platform-neutral

solutions that have evolved to reduce storage costs by maximizing

the effectiveness of your hardware, software and staff.

QLogic components complement the integration of CA’s software

solutions, delivering a comprehensive set of backup, recovery and

management solutions with the highest level of quality and greatest

value for customers.

Computer Associates

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trademarks of 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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