The adapters offer CN4052S 10 Gb E connections & are cost- & performance-optimized for integrated & converged infrastructures. They offer a "triple play"of converged data, storage, and low latency RDMA networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The adapters provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged infrastructures. Multiprotocol support for 10 Gb E The adapters offer CN4052S 10 Gb E connections & are cost- & performance-optimized for integrated & converged infrastructures. They offer a "triple play"of converged data, storage, and low latency RDMA networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The adapters provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged infrastructures. Virtual NIC emulation The Emulex VFA5.2 family supports three NIC virtualization modes as standard: Virtual Fabric mode (v NIC1), switch independent mode (v NIC2), and Unified Fabric Port (UFP). With NIC virtualization, each of the physical ports on the adapter can be logically configured to emulate up to four virtual NIC (v NIC) functions with user-definable bandwidth settings. in addition, each physical port can simultaneously support a storage protocol (FCo E or i SCSI). Full hardware storage offloads These adapters support an optional FCo E hardware offload engine, which is enabled via Lenovo Features on Demand (Fo D). The offload engine accelerates storage protocol processing & delivers up to 1.5 million I/O operations per second (IOPS). This enables the servers processing resources to focus on applications & improves the servers overall performance. Lenovo Features on Demand (Fo D) The adapters use Fo D software activation technology. Fo D enables the adapters to be initially deployed as low-cost Ethernet NICs, and later upgraded in the field to support FCo E or i SCSI hardware offload. Emulex Virtual Network Acceleration (VNe X) technology support Emulex VNe X supports Microsoft network virtualization by using generic routing encapsulation (NVGRE) & VMware-supported virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN). These technologies create more logical LANs for traffic isolation that are needed by cloud architectures. Because these protocols increase the processing burden on the servers processor, the adapters have an offload engine that is designed specifically for processing these tags. The resulting benefit is that cloud providers can use the benefits of Vx LAN/NVGRE with no reduction in the servers performance.