The Emulex Fiber Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBAs) is an ideal solution for servers requiring high-speed data transfer in storage connectivity for virtualized environments, data backup, and mission-critical applications. It is designed to meet the needs of modern networked storage systems that utilize high-performance and low-latency solid-state storage drives for caching and persistent storage as well as hard disk drive arrays. The Emulex FC HBA features ExpressLane, which prioritizes mission-critical traffic in congested networks ensuring maximum application performance on flash storage arrays.
- Plenty of input / output operations
- Frame-level multiplexing and out-of-order frame reassembly increases link efficiency and maximizes HBA performance
- GreenState power efficiency reduces data center power consumption and associated operational expenses by delivering exceptional power to port ratios
- End-to-end data protection with hardware parity, CRC, ECC, and other advanced error checking and correcting algorithms, which ensures that data is safe from corruption
- Emulex HBA is renowned for reliability, ensuring maximum SAN uptime
- Support for Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X) improves host utilization and enhances application performance
Plenty of input / output operations
Maximum performance with up to 1.6 million input / output operations per second (IOPS) to support larger server virtualization deployments and scalable cloud initiatives, and performance to match multicore processors, SSDs / flash storage, and faster server host bus architectures.
ExpressLane technology
Offer end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) application prioritization with ExpressLane technology, which allows customers to prioritize faster storage traffic (such as SSDs) ahead of slower traffic (such as spinning hard drives), alleviating potential bottlenecks from slow storage.
Increased link efficiency
Frame-level multiplexing and out-of-order frame reassembly increases link efficiency and maximizes HBA performance.
