- 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
The Emulex 16 Gb Fiber Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) for IBM system x are part of a family of high-performance FC HBA solutions. These HBAs deliver exceptional performance, enabling small and medium businesses to experience unsurpassed robustness and reliability for a wide spectrum of servers, storage, and SANs. The adapter provides an ideal solution for all system x servers requiring high-speed data transfer in disk connectivity for virtualized environments and data-backup, mission-critical applications.
The highly integrated multiprocessor design of the Emulex 16 Gb FC HBA minimizes onboard components and improves host performance and efficiency. Advanced error-checking features ensure the integrity of block data passing through the storage area network (SAN). The Emulex OneCommand Manager Enterprise class management application features a multiprotocol and cross-platform architecture that provides centralized management of all Emulex HBAs. The unique OneCommand Manager plug-in for VMware vCenter enables HBAs to be managed directly within the VMware environment, simplifying management. Through rigorous testing by IBM through the IBM ServerProven program, you can maintain a high degree of confidence that your system x server storage subsystem is compatible and functions reliably when using these 16 Gb HBA adapters.