QLogic today announced it has set up a partnership with Cisco to offer end-to-end virtualization technology, using Qlogic adapters that allow end-users to realize the benefits of quality of service capabilities in standards-based virtual fabric environments. Virtual fabrics provide storage administrators with an industry-standard method for improving storage area network or SAN security, scalability and performance by segmenting physical SANs into multiple virtual SANs.
Qlogic said its quality of service capability enables IT administrators to tie virtual machines to virtualized fabric environments such as Cisco VSANs using NPIV technology, which has been enabled in QLogic adapters since 2006.