QXP-16G2FC

Add QNAP NAS to your existing Fibre Channel SAN environment with a budget-friendly solution

QXP-16G2FC

Features

Common Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Networks) are closed network environments, and their devices are often expensive while lacking deployment flexibility. QNAP introduces dual-port 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel expansion cards that feature high performance, reliability, security, and energy efficient Fibre Channel. With a QNAP Fibre Channel card in your QNAP NAS, your NAS can be added to an existing SAN environment at an affordable price point to fulfill requirements for high-performance storage and backup.

QNAP NAS as a Fibre Channel SAN storage solution

Replacing Fibre Channel SAN environments can be expensive and time consuming. By installing a PCIe-based Fibre Channel card to a QNAP NAS, your existing SAN environment gains a budget-friendly storage or backup solution. Not only is a QNAP NAS more affordable than typical SAN devices, but it also provides rich enterprise features to make storage applications more efficient - including LUN snapshots, Qtier auto-tiering, SSD cache acceleration, hybrid cloud backup solutions, and much more. The Fibre-Channel-ready QNAP NAS is a unified storage solution that provides SAN, NAS, and cloud storage features with higher cost-effectiveness and application flexibility.

Learn More: QNAP NAS as a FC SAN storage solution

Note: QNAP Fibre Channel cards can only be installed in a QNAP NAS (with the QTS or QuTS hero operating system) as a Fibre Channel Target. Windows®, Linux®, and other systems are not supported.

Manage Fibre Channel connection using iSCSI & Fibre Channel app

Use the QTS / QuTS hero iSCSI & Fibre Channel app to set the QNAP NAS as a Fibre Channel Target, and add the NAS to your SAN environment with WWPN addresses. You can also take advantage of the Fibre Channel Switch that allows multiple connection paths to have multiple servers share the NAS. In addition, the LUN Masking and Port Binding features provide an additional layer of security for your data.

Compatible FC Transceivers

16Gb FC SFP+ Transceiver	32Gb FC SFP+ Transceiver
TRX-16GFCSFP-SR	TRX-32GFCSFP-SR
• Tri-speed: 14.025Gbps/ 8.5Gpbs/ 4.25Gbp • Support multimode LC FC cables with 16Gbps, up to 125 meters (410.10 ft.)	• Tri-speed: 28.05Gbps/ 14.025Gbps/ 8.5Gpbs • Support multimode LC FC cables with 32Gbps, up to 100 meters (328.08 ft.)

Choose proper FC cables based on the speed and distance

Rate	Multimode Optic Cable and Distance (m)
Rate	OM1	OM2	OM3	OM4
4GFC	70	150	380	400
8GFC	21	50	150	190
16GFC	--	35	100	125
32GFC	--	20	70	100

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QXP-16G2FC

QNAP 2-port 16Gbps fiber channel adapter, PCIe 3.0 x8, SFP+, low profile, w/ SFP+ 16G transceivers
Dimension (L × W × H): 190 × 143 × 50 (mm)
Weight: 0.40 (kg)
QXP-32G2FC

QNAP 2-port 32Gbps fiber channel adapter, PCIe 3.0 x8, SFP+, low profile, w/ SFP+ 32G optical transceivers
Dimension (L × W × H): 190 × 143 × 50 (mm)
Weight: 0.40 (kg)