Fibre channel now shipping in industry’s latest modular servers

The new Dell EMC PowerEdge MX, based on Dell EMC’s modular, kinetic infrastructure architecture, is designed to meet and exceed customer requirements for performance and scale while delivering lower total cost of ownership. The Marvell Ethernet and Fibre Channel technologies as part of the Dell EMC PowerEdge MX provide feature-rich, flexible server connectivity solutions to support emerging and expanding data centre workloads.

Rajneesh Gaur, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Server Connectivity Business Unit, Marvell Semiconductor, stated: “Marvell is a strategic partner of Dell EMC across generations of IT infrastructure. The introduction of the PowerEdge MX platform and adoption of Marvell FastLinQ Ethernet and QLogic Fibre Channel adapters is a major milestone in our decade-long relationship. Now, enterprise data centres and service providers can increase operational velocity, deliver frictionless IT and reduce costs while having a choice of fabric to meet their needs.”

Marvell QLogic Fibre Channel host-bus adapters (HBAs), the Gen 6 32 GbFC QME-2742-DEL and Enhanced Gen 5 16 GFC QME-2692-DEL, are available for Fibre Channel storage, while Marvell FastLinQ Ethernet adapters, the 10/25GbE FastLinQ 41000 Series, are the default Ethernet networking options for the servers.

Marvell server connectivity solutions for the Dell EMC MX Series include:

• The Gen 6 32 GFC QME-2742-DEL and Enhanced Gen 5 16 GFC QME-2692-DEL provide high-performance connectivity, support advanced virtualisation, security, port isolation, low CPU utilisation and advanced fabric integration features. The Marvell QLogic HBAs allow customers to choose the best options to integrate into their existing fabric to meet the I/O requirements of their current and future workloads.
• The FastLinQ 10/25GbE 41000 adapters are the industry’s only NIC adapter that delivers customers the technology choice and investment protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP. The Marvell FastLinQ adapters coupled with new generation PowerEdge MX composable infrastructure enable administrators to optimise their infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in technologies like SR-IOV and Network Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and QoS for workloads and infrastructure traffic.

The expanded suite of Fibre Channel and Ethernet-based adapters for PowerEdge MX are available and shipping today. For more information, please visit the Marvell Dell EMC Partnership microsite.