- 16 Gbps per port maximum throughput for high bandwidth storage (SAN) traffic
- Over 1.2 million IOPS reduce latency in high transaction intensive applications and virtualized environments
- Reduced hardware, cabling, and management costs by enabling more applications (VMs) to run on a single server and Fiber Channel port
- Decreased power and cooling costs by using the fewest PCI Express lanes in PCIe Gen3 environments
- Overlapping protection domains (OPDs) to ensure the highest level of reliability as data moves to and from the PCI bus and Fiber Channel network
- Complete investment protection for legacy 8Gb and 4Gb Fiber Channel infrastructure
- Future-proof design enables conversion to a 10GbE converged network adapter
The 2600 series adapters are QLogic's sixth generation fiber channel adapters. They boast industry-leading native fiber channel performance - achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-Gigabit fiber channel throughput - at extremely low CPU usage 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).