- Supports PCIe 2.0 (higher bus bandwidth)
- Increased Fiber Channel speed (8Gbps) versus 4 Gbps HBA
- Lower latency (faster board-level processing) and CPU offload (MSI-X)
- Scaled up NPIV configurability and support for large number of simultaneous transactions/exchanges (XRI count)
- Protection against corruption (BlockGuard) and unauthorized intrusion (FC-SP)
Dell Emulex Fiber Channel I/O card offers highly integrated 8Gbps Fiber Channel connectivity solutions for enterprise, and midrange storage area networks (SANs). The LPe-1205-M I/O card is engineered to delivers state of the art performance through the use of a sixth generation Emulex Fiber Channel controller. It boasts increased throughput with PCI-Express to 8Gbps Fiber Channel connection and high performance through 16 buffer credits and 1024 contexts cache.