- 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel link speed support
- Automatic speed negotiation with existing 1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s Fiber Channel SANs
- Superior performance capable of sustaining up to 150,000 I/Os per second per channel
- 4 Gbps FC increases aggregate throughput rate to 1.6 GB/s in full-duplex mode
- Full fabric support with automatic topology and speed adaptation
- Full support for both FC service Class 2 and 3
- Supports FC-Tape devices
- RoHS compliance
- Emulex HBAnyware and Qlogic SANsurfer FC HBA Managers for centralized management and remote control of distributed HBAs
The HP PCIe 4Gb FC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support customers using HP ProLiant servers with PCIe I/O slots running a broad range of operating systems. These Fibre Channel HBAs are second generation products that support this new higher speed I/O bus architecture and provide customers the ability to use it to connect to their HP storage arrays.