Cisco Dual-port Enhanced Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel Adapter – PCI Express 3.0 x8 – 16 Gbit/s – 2 x Total Fibre Channel Port(s) – Plug-in Card

The QLogic QLE2692-CSC dual-port Enhanced Gen 5, 16GB FC (16GFC) HBA boasts industry-leading native FC performance with extremely low CPU usage with full hardware offloads.

ENHANCED GEN 5 FC
Compared to Gen 5 FC, the QLogic Enhanced Gen 5 FC solution offers higher per-port performance (up to 650K IOPS) with low power consumption. In addition, QLogic StorFusion technology delivers streamlined provisioning, quality of service (QoS), and improved resiliency while addressing the needs of IT organizations that require reliability, integrated management, and guaranteed network performance.

Enhanced Gen 5 FC technology resolves data center complexities by enabling a storage network infrastructure that supports powerful virtualization features, application-aware services, and simplified management. The QLE2692-CSC Adapter provides advanced storage networking features capable of supporting the most demanding virtualized and private cloud environments while fully leveraging the capabilities of high-performance 16GFC and all-flash arrays (AFAs). Powerful management tools automate and simplify SAN provisioning to help reduce cost and complexity, while the unmatched 16GFC performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today's powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.