Chaz, Welcome aboard. Your question could result in a whole book in explanation, but I'll try to keep it simple...
While SUNW has been painfully slow in it's move toward storage networking some of the basic infrastructure is/will be made by Q.
some of the HBAs that are needed to connect the servers to the data ....
qlogic.com
QLogic to Produce SBus-to-Fibre Channel Host Adapters
for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Answers the Call from Global 2000 Customers for a Highly Reliable and Interoperable
Solution for Connectivity from Sun Enterprise™ Servers to Switched Fabrics
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., January 23, 2001 - QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC), today announced plans to produce an SBus-to-Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter for Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW). The product is being developed in response to demands from Global 2000 IT professionals for a highly reliable and interoperable solution for SBus connectivity from Sun Enterprise™ servers to Fibre Channel switched fabrics. Scheduled for introduction mid-year, the Sun branded product, developed by QLogic
SUNW has made its own up till now. In the last cc QLGC said no volume shipment on this yet. SUNW must have inventory of its own and with the slowdown they sure won't order from Q until it has sold all of its own.
QLGC bought ANCR last yr....
qlogic.com
its SANbox switches were selected for Sun StorEdge T3 arrays, the industry’s most scalable network storage solution, announced today at Sun’s new campus in Santa Clara. Sun StorEdge T3 arrays help solve the problem of exploding data requirements of the Net economy. Designed for high availability and massive scalability, Sun StorEdge T3 arrays can be affordably deployed within the workgroup or expand massively to meet the needs of the high-end enterprise. Ancor’s Fibre Channel SANbox switch,
I don't know if SUNW has moved to 2G yet. They must be close. SUNW needs to move to fabric. Hopefully with the HDS deal they are full fabric on the 9900s. SUNW hasn't embraced the notion of big director switches, not wanting to support anything that intelligence could reside in as a threat to the server. Over on Yahoo it has been said that the 9900 has so many ports that it doesn't make sense to pair it with small switches. Perhaps SUNW professional services will need some higher port count switches, that don't come in SUNW colors yet.
QLGC says to watch the technology transitions. We have several coming up. The move to 2G FC, and the emergence of iSCSI, the fall will have many new product announcements and many of us will be watching to see if Q can gain some valuable turf...
If you don't read the S of San thread already it will help you follow the bigger picture ....
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That's enough to get you started. Try some searches on QLGC site and see what you get.
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