Is your data center poised to take the 16 Gb step in Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity? The growth in enterprise flash storage & the deployment of servers with multi-core processors is driving the need for high performance storage networking to prevent application performance bottlenecks. The FC Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is a critical element of this storage network to improve storage performance. The HPE Store Fabric SN1200E 16 Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters deliver the high bandwidth, low latency & high IOPs to meet any application requirements, from online transaction processing or data warehousing to backup/restore & Open Stack Cinder block storage. Supporting higher virtual machine density on powerful host servers, the SN1200E 16 Gb HBAs delivers increased ROI on enabling more applications & virtual machines to run on a single server & I/O port without impacting SLAs. The 16 Gb FC HBA is backward compatible with 8 & 4 Gb FC storage networks to protect legacy investments. The High Performance Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters The HPE Store Fabric SN1200E 16 Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters deliver twice the I/O performance of 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) while being backward compatible with 8 & 4 Gb FC environment. Moving to 16 Gb technology provides the infrastructure required for the more powerful servers & data intensive applications of the future. When using storage intensive applications like backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization & rich media, the enhanced I/O performance enables faster storage & retrieval of data. Faster Flash The HPE Store Fabric SN1200E 16 Gb Host Bus Adapters accelerate the time to business insight by completing data warehousing queries faster than 8 Gb FC HBAs. Meets the massive bandwidth requirements of flash storage arrays. Increases the performance of flash-based storage by prioritizing mission critical traffic in congested networks with exclusive Express Lane feature. Better Virtualization The HPE Store Fabric SN1200E 16 Gb Host Bus Adapters provides near limitless scalability to support increased virtual machine (VM) density with 2x more on-chip resources & bandwidth than previous offerings. Improves the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) end-user experience with low latency features providing noticeable improvements during boot storms (degradation of service that occurs when a significant number of end-users boot up within a very narrow time frame & overwhelm the network). Simplifies management & installation with One Command Manager plugin for VMware v Center server.