Marketing description

The HPE StorageWorks 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4Gb HBAs. An 8Gb FC HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 4 and 2 Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage intensive applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 8 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information.
Finally, 8Gb PCIe FC Host Bus Adapters provide a number of features that work together to reduce power consumption, thus delivering a "green" benefit within the server.

Key selling points

• Get better performance at a competitive price
• Be well positioned for the future with 8Gb technology
• Enhanced for storage intensive applications
• Supports virtualized servers for overall effective server utilization
• Allows multiple logical (virtual) connections to share the same physical port (Qlogic)
• Host to Fabric FC-SP authentication for data protection (Emulex)
• Prioritization of queues prevents conflicts between multiple queues
• Redundant HBAs for high availability
• Support of Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X)(Emulex)
• Reduced overall power consumption