These Enhanced Gen 5 FC adapters deliver great FC performance with optimal load balancing & linear performance scalability per port. The QLogic port-isolation design provides independent data paths for each port, prevents errors & firmware crashes from propagating across all ports, and provides predictable & scalable performance across all ports. The QLogic 2690 series adapters support QLogic Stor Fusion technology offering comprehensive port diagnostics, rapid provisioning, and guaranteed performance service level agreements. Excellent FC performance with extremely low CPU usage leveraging full hardware offloads for next-generation, performance-sensitive virtualized workloads Higher per port performance than traditional Gen 5 FC Lower operational expenditures with lower power requirements & greater power efficiency Improvements in TCO with Stor Fusion technology, offering streamlined deployment, end-to-end diagnostics, & quality of service optimization High-availability port isolation architecture for predictable, deterministic & scalable performance Overlapping protection domains to ensure a high level of reliability as data moves to & from the PCI bus & FC network