- 4 Gbps fiber channel link speed support
- Automatic speed negotiation with existing 1 Gbps and 2 Gbps fiber channel SANs
- Superior performance capable of sustaining up to 150,000 I/Os per second per channel
- 4 Gbps FC increases aggregate throughput rate to 1.6 Gbps in full-duplex mode
- Full fabric support with automatic topology and speed adaptation
The HP PCIe 4Gb FC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) support customers using HP ProLiant servers with PCIe I/O slots running a broad range of operating systems. These Fibre Channel HBAs are second generation products that support this new higher speed I/O bus architecture and provide customers the ability to use it to connect to their HP storage arrays.