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5-QLogic Management PRO Pack and NPIV Technology
PRO Pack Benefits
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A PRO Tip is generated when a virtual or physical port‘s IOPS or data rate Mbps
activity exceeds a configurable threshold level for a defined time trend/period.
Whether the tip is generated by the virtual or physical port depends on the
configuration used by the administrator. The threshold is a function of the
adapter‘s capacity.
The workload is automatically migrated to another Hyper-V host on the SAN
using System Center Virtual Machine Manager to determine the best target host
as the migration destination. For example, if the IOPS exceed 80 percent of
150,000 (the capacity for a 4Gb host bus adapter) for two minutes, a PRO Tip is
generated and migration is initiated automatically.
Figure 5-1 illustrates an example topology to evaluate and understand the
QLogic PRO Pack port statistics monitoring scenario explained previously.
Figure 5-1. Representative SAN and LAN Topology
PRO Pack Benefits
PRO Pack provides the following benefits to the data center administrator:
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Optimized virtual workload performance in both latency-sensitive and
bandwidth-sensitive applications
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Fulfillment of SLAs for I/O-intensive virtual workloads