LPe16002 16Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI Express 3.0 Dual Channel Host Bus Adapter

Specifications

• PCIe 3.0 bus increases interconnect performance bandwidth by 2x compared to PCIe 2.0; the new encoding scheme reduces overhead by 20% resulting in more efficient data transfers and power efficiency
• vScale™ performance and scalability—multi-core ASIC engine with eight cores supports 255 virtual functions (VFs), 1024 Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X) and 8192 logins/open exchanges for maximum virtual machine (VM) density—up to 4x more than other adapters
• 2x management functionality, and takes half the time to manage with OneCommand® Manager
• GreenState™ power efficiency—reduces data center power consumption and associated OPEX by delivering
• up to 4x better IOPS performance/watt
• BlockGuard® data integrity offload— high performance T10 PI end-to-end data integrity protects 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 MSI-X, improves host utilization and enhances application performance
• Support for Gen 5 (16GFC), 8GFC and 4GFC devices
• Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and Windows virtual HBAs
• Secure management with role-based administration integrated with Light Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Active Directory (AD) services
• Common driver model, allows a single driver to support all Emulex HBAs on a given OS