- 10GbE per port maximum throughput for high bandwidth storage and networking traffic
- Over one million FCoE IOPS reduce latency in high transaction intensive applications and virtualized environments
- Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support for faster performance in virtualized environments
- Reduced hardware, cabling, and management costs by enabling more applications to run on a single server with converged traffic to top-of-the-rack switch
- Decreased power and cooling costs by using the fewest PCI express lanes in PCIe generation 3 environments
- Overlapping protection domains (OPD) to ensure a high level of reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus
- Future-proof design
The 8300 series adapters are QLogic's fourth generation of converged network adapters, supporting simultaneous LAN (TCP/IP) and SAN (Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI) traffic at line-rate, 10Gbps Ethernet (GbE) speeds - at extremely low CPU utilization with full hardware offloads. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today's powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.
In addition, support for powerful virtualization features make this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs). The ability to support multiple protocols simultaneously on the same hardware offers multi-tenancy flexibility, which is ideal for private and public cloud environments.