HPE 82Q - Host bus adapter - PCIe 2.0 x4 / PCIe x8 low profile - 8Gb Fibre Channel x 2 - for StoreOnce 4500 Backup

The HPE 8 GB PCIe FC host bus adapters are priced only slightly higher than equivalent 4 GB HBAs, yet, they have the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance. If you are using storage intensive applications, such as rich media, the increased performance of the 8 GB infrastructure allows you to store and retrieve critical information faster.
The virtualization of servers has become an important capability for most datacenters. The ability to improve overall server utilization, resulting in significant cost savings, has made server virtualization a "must-have" for most enterprises. By having an HBA that supports and maximizes your server virtualization efforts, you are protecting your significant investments in virtualization technology.
Since most of today's datacenters are required to be available 24 x 7, it is critical that infrastructure components have failover capabilities. By installing redundant HBAs into your servers, you can feel confident that your servers will remain connected to mission-critical stored data.
Finally, today's enterprises are becoming more and more sensitive to the power consumption within the datacenter. The 8 GB PCIe FC host bus adapters provide a number of features that work together to reduce power consumption, thus delivering a "green" benefit within the server.

• Better performance at a competitive price
• Well positioned for the future with 8 GB technology
• Enhanced for storage intensive applications
• Failover of HBAs to prevent single point of failure
• Two single port cards are more reliable than one dual port card
• Reduced number of components on each FC HBA reduces overall power consumption
• Lower power consumption means HBA requires lower airflow
• Support for Boot from SAN provides high reliability
• MSI-X support for increased efficiency
• Data path protection

• Support for Boot from SAN provides high reliability
  Multipath Boot from SAN (BFS) capability is fully supported across all platforms. Even if a path to storage fails, servers can still boot using an alternate path.
• MSI-X support for increased efficiency
  Message Signal Interrupt eXtended (MSI-X) supports improves processor utilization and interrupts handling efficiency.
• Data path protection
  Internal end-to-end data path protection using hardware parity, CRC and ECC.

The HPE 8 GB PCIe FC host bus adapters are priced only slightly higher than equivalent 4 GB HBAs, yet, they have the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance. If you are using storage intensive applications, such as rich media, the increased performance of the 8 GB infrastructure allows you to store and retrieve critical information faster.