The HP Store Fabric SN1000 16 Gb Host Bus Adapters are designed to support Pro Liant Servers with PCI-Express I/O slots to connect to HP Storage Arrays using the 16/8/4 Gb Fiber Channel protocol. The HP SN1000 16 Gb Host Bus Adapters bring datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance & efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 8 Gb HBAs. A 16 Gb FC HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 8 & 4 Gb storage networks & will protect future investments. When using storage intensive applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 16 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage & retrieval of critical information. Designed for environments with greater virtual machine density & bandwidth requirements, the SN1000 16 Gb HBAs enable more applications & VMs to run on a single server & Fiber Channel port, resulting in reduced cabling & a higher return on IT investment.