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HPE 8Gb PCIe FC HBAs
The HPE 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of
performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4Gb HBAs. An 8Gb FC HBA purchased to
day is
backward compatible with 4 and 2 Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage intensive
applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the
8 Gb
infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information.
Finally, 8Gb PCIe FC Host Bus Adapters provide a number of features that work together to reduce power consumption, thus
delivering a "green" benefit within the server.
What's New
• HPE StoreFabric 84Q 4P 8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (P9D91A)
• HPE StoreFabric 84E 4P 8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (E7Y63A)
Key Features and Benefits
Performance
The PCIe 8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters deliver twice the I/O performance of 4Gb FC HBAs
Moving to 8 Gb technology provides the infrastructure required for the more powerful servers and data
intensive applications of the future.
When using storage intensive applications like backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization and
rich media, the improved I/O performance enables faster storage and retrieval of data.
Support for greater
Server Virtualization
Ideal for high density server virtualization environments
• Enables more applications and VMs to run on a
single server and Fibre Channel port, resulting
in reduced cabling and a higher return on IT investment
Provides HPE ProLiant
Connectivity to Storage
And Network
Robust interoperability testing
• Provides an HPE-branded HBA solution which has undergone extensive HPE interoperability
testing for connecting HPE ProLiant servers into storage and networking environments.
• Optimal for connecting to HPE's 8Gb FC edge/core network switches.
Smart SAN support
Smart SAN is a protocol agnostic application embedded in SAN components that enables the 3PAR to
orchestrate configuration, settings and policies in a SAN. HPE Smart SAN’s Target Driven Zoning
enables you to configure zones accurately in minutes and not in hours and its automatic discovery
mechanism crea
tes a powerful platform which would enable real-time diagnostics with self-healing in
the near future.
Models
Part Number
Emulex
HP 81E 8Gb 1-port PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
AJ762B