Lenovo Emulex 16 Gb Gen 6 Product Manual page 3

The Emulex OneCommand Manager enterprise class management application features a
multiprotocol and cross-platform architecture that provides centralized management of all Emulex
HBAs. VMware vCenter plug-in provides OneCommand support within a VMware environment.
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.
Support forward error correction (FEC), a new Gen 6 standard feature that provides enhanced data
reliability and performance by automatically detecting and recovering from bit errors.
T10-PI data integrity with high performance offload provides end-to-end data corruption protection.
Rock-solid reliability and thermal characteristics, which are essential for mission-critical, cloud, and
virtualized applications.
Emulex HBAs are renowned for reliability, ensuring maximum SAN uptime. Their "it just works"
reputation is based on 17 million installed ports with proven industry-leading reliability of 10 million
hours field Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
Support for Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X) improves host utilization and enhances
application performance.
Support for 16 Gb, 8 Gb, and 4 Gb FC devices.
Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).
A common driver model allows a single driver to support all Emulex HBAs on a given OS.
Reduces the number of cards, cables, and PCIe slots required.
Exceptional performance per watt and price/performance ratios.
Integrates seamlessly into existing SANs.
Allows application of SAN best practices, tools, and processes with virtual server deployments.
Ensures data availability and data integrity.
Universal boot capability allows the appropriate boot environment to be automatically selected for
any given hardware.
Boot from SAN capability reduces the system management costs and increases uptime.
Detailed and real-time event logging and tracing enables quick diagnosis of SAN problems.
The beaconing feature flashes the HBA LEDs, simplifying their identification within server racks.
The environmental monitoring feature helps optimize SAN availability.
The following table compares features of Emulex 16 Gb Gen 6, 16 Gb (Gen 5), and 8 Gb FC HBAs.
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