The HPE 16Gb Host Bus Adapters bring datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 8Gb HBAs at lower latency. A 16Gb FC HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 8 Gb and 4 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 16 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information. Designed for environments with greater virtual machine density and bandwidth requirements, the 16Gb HBAs enable more applications and VMs to run on a single host server and Fibre Channel port, resulting in reduced cabling and a higher return on IT investment. The four port adapters are specially designed for PCIe slot constrained servers which run workloads that demand extremely high storage networking bandwidth.

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Key Features	Product Description : HPE StoreFabric Sn1100q 16gb Single Port Host Bus Adapter Device Type : Host Bus Adapter Form Factor : Plug-in Card - Low Profile Interface (bus) Type : Pci Express 3.0 Ports : 16gb Fibre Channel X 1 Cabling Type : Fiber Optic Data Link Protocol : 4gb Fibre Channel (sw), 8gb Fibre Channel (sw), 16gb Fibre Channel (sw) Data Transfer Rate : 14.025 Gbps
Expansion / Connectivity	Expansion Slots : 1 (total) / 0 (free) x Sfp+ Interfaces : 1 x 16gb Fibre Channel (short Wave) - LC Multi-mode
System Requirements	Os Required : Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32/64bits), Vmware Esxi, Vmware Esx, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bits)