Key Features
The High Performance Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
The HPE SN1200E 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters deliver twice the I/O performance of 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) while being backward compatible with 8 and 4Gb FC environment.
Moving to 16 Gb technology provides the infrastructure required for the more powerful servers and data intensive applications of the future.
When using storage intensive applications like backup/restore, database transactions, virtualization and rich media, the improved I/O performance enables faster storage and retrieval of data.
Faster Flash
The HPE SN1200E 16Gb 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 ExpressLane feature.
Better Virtualization
The HPE SN1200E 16Gb Host Bus Adapters provides near limitless scalability to support increased virtual machine (VM) density with 2x more on-chip resources and 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 and overwhelm the network).
Simplifies management and installation with OneCommand Manager plugin for VMware® vCenter® server.
Enhanced Features
The HPE SN1200E 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters are designed to support emerging NVM Express (NVMe) over Fibre Channel storage networks.
Provides latest security features that averts unauthorized access to the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) firmware.
T10 Protection Information (T10-PI) data integrity with high performance hardware offload provides data protection from the server to the storage array.
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Compatible array platformsPlease visit https://www.hpe.com/storage/spock for the latest support information
Detailed product descriptionHPE SN1200E 16 Gb dual port Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter
Weight5.43 oz
Weight154 g
Minimum dimensions ( H x W x D)4.75 x 0.845 x 7.31 in
Minimum dimensions ( H x W x D)120.7 x 21.5 x 185.7 mm
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