HP StorageWorks 8Gb PCIe FC HBAs

The introduction of the HP StorageWorks 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency. The HP StorageWorks 8Gb PCIe FC 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. In addition, an 8 Gb FC HBA purchased today will protect your investment longer than if you were to purchase an equivalent 4 Gb HBA. If you are using storage intensive applications, such as rich media, the increased performance of the 8 Gb infrastructure allows you to store and retrieve critical information faster.

The virtualization of servers has become an important capability for most datacenters. The ability to improve overall server utilization, resulting in significant cost savings, has made server virtualization a "must-have" for most enterprises. By having an HBA that supports and maximizes your server virtualization efforts, you are protecting your significant investments in virtualization technology.

Since most of today's datacenters are required to be available 24 X 7, it is critical that infrastructure components have failover capabilities. By installing redundant HBAs into your servers, you can feel confident that your servers will remain connected to mission-critical stored data.

Finally, today's enterprises are becoming more and more sensitive to the power consumption within the datacenter. The 8 Gb 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.

• Better performance at a competitive price
• Well positioned for the future with 8 Gb 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
• 256 queue pairs for intensive virtualization
• Prioritization of queues prevents conflicts between multiple queues

• Failover of HBAs to prevent single point of failure
• Two single port cards are more reliable than one dual port card

• Latest generation technology saves power
• Reduced number of components on each FC HBA reduces overall power consumption
• Lower power consumption means HBA requires lower airflow

• Better performance at a competitive price
• Well positioned for the future with 8 Gb technology
• Enhanced for storage intensive applications

• Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and Virtual Fabric
• Virtualized server environments benefiting from industry-leading CPU offload
• Scaled up NPIV configurability (255 VPorts, larger RPI count - 4000)
• Support for large number of simultaneous transactions/exchanges (XRI count - 4000)
• Host to Fabric FC-SP authentication

• Failover of HBAs to prevent single point of failure
• Two single port cards are more reliable than one dual port card

• Protection against corruption (BlockGuard/T10 dif) and unauthorized intrusion (FC-SP)
• Support for Message Signaled Interrupts extended (MSI-X), improves host utilization & enhances application performance
• Complete data and code parity protection
• Data parity and ECC protection
• Overlapping end-to-end data protection

. 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.

Failover of HBAs to prevent single point of failure. Two single port cards have higher data availability than one dual port card.

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

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