- Improves IT staff productivity through simplified deployment and management
- Reduces the number of cards, cables and PCIe slots required
- Exceptional performance per watt and price / performance ratios
- Integrates seamlessly into existing SANs
- Assures data availability and data integrity
- VScale performance and scalability - multi-core ASIC engine with eight cores supports 255 VFs, 1024 MSi-X and 8192 logins/open exchanges for maximum VM density up to 4x more than other adapters
- GreenState power efficiency reduces data center power consumption and associated OPEX by delivering exceptional power to port ratios
- BlockGuard data integrity enables end-to-end protection against silent data corruption
- VEngine CPU offload lowers CPU burden on host server, enabling support for more VMs
- Rock-solid reliability and thermal characteristics, essential for mission-critical, cloud and virtualized applications
- Support for Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X), improves host utilization and enhances application performance
- Support for 16GFC, 8 Gb and 4 Gb FC devices
- Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and Virtual Fabric
- Host-to-fabric Fiber Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) authentication
IBM Gen 5 FC HBAs were designed to support large virtualized, cloud and mission critical database environments. The single-channel IBM features the Emulex bulletproof driver-stack, backward compatibility to 4 GFCHBAs and rocks solid reliability.