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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