HP Equipment

The introduction of the HP PCIe 8Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4 Gb FC HBAs. An 8 Gb Fibre Channel HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 4 and 2 Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage intensive applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 8 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information.

The HP NC373F is a high performance PCI Express multifunction network adapter for either standard or low profile slots in ProLiant servers running over a fiber-optic network environment. In addition to delivering Gigabit Ethernet networking, the NC373F supports TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over a single network connection.

The HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter is the industry's first PCI Express dual port multifunction network adapter supporting TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine), Internet Small Computer Serial Interface (iSCSI), and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over a single network connection.

The QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA Adapter provides the c-Class BladeSystem with two 4Gb Fibre Channel ports for fast and reliable SAN connectivity. Through the implementation of a SAN with the HP BladeSystem, customers can achieve improved data availability, easily scale capacity, and realize management cost savings from consolidating disk resources. Fibre Channel capability is achieved using a QLogic FC Mezzanine HBA specifically designed for HP c-Class BladeSystem. The HP BladeSystem is optimized for HP StorageWorks and compatible with third party storage vendors.

The Emulex LPe1105-HP dual port Fibre Channel HBA provides reliable, high-performance 4 Gb/s connectivity, enabling high-availability to scalable storage in order to meet the needs of your demanding applications and environments. Based on the same field-proven ASIC, firmware, and driver technology as Emulex's renowned LPe1150 HBA, the Emulex LPe1105-HP is fully driver compatible with all Emulex HBAs. HP provides powerful installation software to streamline the installation of the Emulex HBA driver and management applications.

The NC360T is a high performance PCI Express (PCIe) dual port, copper, gigabit network solution for ProLiant customers who demand the latest in dual port Ethernet network adapter bandwidth and features. It offers two ports on a single PCI Express adapter, allowing customers to save valuable I/O slots for other uses. It is based upon the high performance Intel 82571EB chipset and offers a 4 lane (x4) PCI Express bus. Unique customer benefits and differentiators are: flexiblity to order and install (It has both standard and low profile capability.); and, usable in Ethernet or Fast Ethernet legacy twisted pair environments to preserve legacy infrastructure investments.

The HP NC325m features four Gigabit Ethernet ports on a single card, saving valuable server I/O slots for other purposes. The four ports provide the highest port density available for ProLiant BladeSystem servers in a single adapter. The NC325m is ideal for virtualization, security, server consolidation, network segmentation, and other ProLiant server applications requiring maximum throughput and port density.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) provides a superior storage solution. With some storage requirements escalating and others becoming more complex, factors such as flexibility, performance, increased reliability, greater density, security, scalability and accessibility are more critical than ever. Today's organizations consist of different kinds of environments. Enterprise data centers must be online almost 24X7, fulfill requests from numerous users simultaneously, and allow for constant growth and expansion while in operation. Other customer environments require high capacity storage and high data availability for low I/O environments. HP's portfolio of SAS drives meets all these demands.

Serial Attached SCSI is the logical evolution of SCSI, including its long-established software advantage and the Serial ATA electrical and physical connection interface. With enterprise storage requirements escalating and becoming more complex, factors such as larger capacity, greater density, security, scalability and accessibility are more critical than ever. Enterprise data centers must be online all the time, fulfill requests from numerous users simultaneously, allow for constant growth and expansion and be maintained while in operation. Serial Attached SCSI meets all these demands while providing the highest performance. As the technology evolves, device support will be further enhanced, making it an even more attractive alternative for enterprise users who want a solution far superior and more flexible than any other storage technology. The results of aligning the Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA technologies to serve storage users, who need large capacity at a lower cost, will provide even greater choice to the storage industry.

The single-port Cisco Gigabit Ethernet HWIC provides Gigabit Ethernet optical and copper connectivity in a compact form factor for Cisco Integrated Service Routers (ISRs). The Gigabit Ethernet HWIC enables branch offices to cost-effectively use high-speed uplinks in numerous environments. The enhanced performance of Gigabit Ethernet in Cisco ISRs to enable new applications and services, as well as provide greater capacity for existing inter-VLAN routing and bridging capabilities. Additionally, branch offices can now connect to metropolitan-area networks (MANs).