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The 8 Gb series of fibre channel host bus adapters are priced only slightly higher than equivalent 4 Gb
HBAs, yet they have the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance.
Since 4 Gb technology will be considered "old" soon, customers have the opportunity to move to 8 Gb
technology, which is backward compatible with 4 Gb and 2 Gb and will serve them for a much longer
period than 4 Gb technology.
When using storage intensive applications like backup/restore, database transactions, and rich media,
the improved I/O performance allows you to store and retrieve data much faster
Today, the average server operates at approximately 25% of its capacity and IT administrators are being
challenged to increase server utilization and reduce operational costs. The 8Gb HBA support for
virtualized servers will assist IT administrators in their adoption of server virtualization.
. The new 8Gb Fibre Channel technology is a natural complement to the PCIe 2.0 bus architecture and
will provide servers with ample bandwidth and throughput performance.
Failover of HBAs to prevent single point of failure. Two single port cards have higher data availability
than one dual port card.
Eliminating unnecessary internal activity results in reduced power consumption and waste.(Qlogic)
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