QuickSpecs

HP StorageWorks 8Gb PCIe FC HBAs

Features and Benefits

Benefits At a Glance

Get better performance at a competitive price

Be well positioned for the future with 8 Gb technology

Enhanced for storage intensive applications

The 8 Gb series of fibre channel host bus adapters are priced only slightly higher than equivalent 4 Gb HBAs, yet they have the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance.

Since 4 Gb technology will be considered "old" soon, customers have the opportunity to move to 8 Gb technology, which is backward compatible with 4 Gb and 2 Gb and will serve them for a much longer period than 4 Gb technology.

When using storage intensive applications like backup/restore, database transactions, and rich media, the improved I/O performance allows you to store and retrieve data much faster

Supports virtualized

Today, the average server operates at approximately 25% of its capacity and IT administrators are being

servers for overall effective challenged to increase server utilization and reduce operational costs. The 8Gb HBA support for

server utilization

virtualized servers will assist IT administrators in their adoption of server virtualization.

Evolving HBA technology keeps pace with the effective bandwidth of server busses.

. The new 8Gb Fibre Channel technology is a natural complement to the PCIe 2.0 bus architecture and will provide servers with ample bandwidth and throughput performance.

Redundant HBAs for high Failover of HBAs to prevent single point of failure. Two single port cards have higher data availability

availability

than one dual port card.

Latest generation

Eliminating unnecessary internal activity results in reduced power consumption and waste.(Qlogic)

technology saves power

 

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Canon FC HBAs manual Benefits At a Glance, Be well positioned for the future with 8 Gb technology, Supports virtualized