Unsurpassed performance, simplified management and superior reliability\nCustomers today are challenged to utilize their IT resources as fully as possible, requiring virtualization of server hardware. In the past, the bottleneck to virtualization has been I/O bandwidth, thereby hindering application performance.\n\nThe QLogic 16 Gb FC Host Bus Adapters boast industryleading native FC performance—achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16 Gb FC throughput—at extremely low CPU usage, with full\nhardware offloads. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor servers.\n\nSuperior application performance\nWith support for more than 1.2 million I/O transactions per second, these adapters deliver outstanding storage application performance in virtualized and nonvirtualized environments.\n\nOptimized virtualization\nThese adapters support standards-based virtualization features such as N_port ID virtualization (NPIV).\n\nInvestment protection\nThe adapters are compatible with the same FC software driver stack that has been tested and validated across all major hardware platforms, all major hypervisors and Operating\nSystems, and has been battle-hardened in millions of previous installations.\n\nSimplified management\nQLogic’s new unified management application, QConvergeConsole (QCC), provides single-pane-of-glass management for the company’s broad product line of storage and networking adapters (FC, converged networking, NIC and iSCSI).