The HPE PCIe 8Gb Fiber Channel host bus adapters bring datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4Gb FC HBAs. When using storage intensive applications, such as backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization, and rich media, the increased performance of the 8Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information. Finally, PCIe 8Gb FC host bus adapters provide a number of features that work together to reduce power consumption, thus delivering a green benefit within the server.