The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter 5 for IBM System x builds on the foundation of previous generations of Emulex VFAs by delivering performance enhancements & additional features that maximize the return on server & storage investments. The VFA5 is designed for the high bandwidth & scalability demands of tier 1 enterprise applications powered by storage protocol (Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCo E) & i SCSI) & stateless TCP hardware offloads, more scalable virtualization with Single-Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), optimized bandwidth allocation using IBM Virtual Fabric technology, accelerated cloud networking using Emulex Virtual Network Acceleration (VNe X) offload technology & accelerated application & storage performance with support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (Ro CE).