- Port architecture that offers independent functionality on each port - independent processor, isolated memory and independent firmware image - provides higher reliability and predictable performance
- Support for Message Signaled Interrupts eXtended (MSI-X) improves host utilization and enhances application performance
- Support for different FC devices
- Full hardware offload for Fiber Channel protocol
- Support for different host interfaces
- Comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) with 255 N Port IDs per port
- Host-to-fabric Fiber Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) authentication
- A common driver model allows a single driver to support all QLogic HBAs
- Universal boot capability allows the appropriate boot environment to be automatically selected for any given hardware
- Boot from SAN capability reduces the system management costs and increases uptime
This adapter offers excellent performance at extremely low processor utilization with full hardware offloads. Support for powerful virtualization features makes this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs).