The HPE 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4Gb HBAs. An 8Gb FC HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 4 and 2 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 8 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information.

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Key Features	Device Type : Host Bus Adapter - 2 Ports Form Factor : Plug-in Card - Low Profile Interface (bus) Type : Pci Express X8 Pci Specification Revision : Pcie 2.0 Connectivity Technology : Wired Data Link Protocol : 8gb Fibre Channel (short Wave) Data Transfer Rate : 8.5 Gbps Features : Auto-negotiation Depth : 6.6 In Height : 2.5 In
Expansion / Connectivity	Expansion Slots Total (free) : 2 (0) x Sfp+ Interfaces : 2 x Network - 8gb Fibre Channel (short Wave) - Lc Multi-mode x 2 Compatible Slots : 1 x Pci Express x8
System Requirements	Os Required : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Sunsoft Solaris 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 For X86 - Amd64 - Em64t Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 for X86 - Amd64 - Intel Em64t Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 For X86/amd64 - intel Em64t Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 For Intel X86 - Amd64 - Em64t Microsoft Windows Server 2008 VMware Esx Server 3.5.