Description

The Emulex LPE12002 Host Bus Adapter from Dell™ offers an exceptional performance and advanced management functionality that can shave days off installing and managing adapters. It is coupled with better IOPS performance per watt, which makes Dell 8GB Fibre Channel (8GFC) host bus adapters the clear choice for the toughest virtualized, cloud and mission critical deployments. Support for Message Signal Interrupts extended (MSI-X), improves host utilization and enhances application performance Support for 8GFC, 4GFC and 2GFC devices It has comprehensive virtualization capabilities with support for N Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and Virtual Fabric Host to Fabric FC-SP authentication Long wave optical transceiver model available allows the board to transmit signal over long distances Provides BlockGuard ready-end-to-end data integrity for protection against silent data corruption events Common driver model allows a single driver to support all Emulex HBAs on a given OS Offers easy deployment of new firmware with minimal server reboots Efficient centralized administration of Emulex HBAs via powerful management tools PCIe 2.0 bus compliant, with PCIe 1.0 backward compatibility supported