These adapters support 8 Gbps per port maximum bidirectional throughput for high-bandwidth storage (SAN). The adapters connect to SFP+ Multimode Fiber SR optical modules.
The QLogic 8Gb FC Host Bus Adapters are PCI Express 2.0 x8 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters with SFP+ LC-style connectors.This adapter supports 10 Gbps per port maximum bidirectional throughput for high-bandwidth storage (SAN) and networking (LAN) traffic, with full hardware offload for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol processing. The QLogic 10Gb CNA for IBM System x is a PCI Express 2.0 x4 10Gb Converged Network Adapter.