The introduction of the HPE PCIe 8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4 Gb FC HBAs. An 8 Gb Fibre Channel HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 4 and 2 Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage-intensive applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 8 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information. Finally, PCIe 8Gb FC Host Bus Adapters provide a number of features that work together to reduce power consumption, thus delivering a "green" benefit within the server.


The HPE 697890-001 Plug-in Card - Low Profile Host Bus Adapters provide 8 Gb Fibre Channel x 2 connectivity to select HPE ProLiant servers. 8.5 Gbps data 8Gb Fibre Channel (SW) transfer rates are well-suited for enterprise network and storage device connections. The 697890-001 is a dual-port unit with a low-profile Plug-in card PCI Express 2.0 x4 / PCI Express x8 form factor and has 1 Year Warranty.