Lenovo 01CV830 Emulex 16GB Single Port Fibre Channel Gen6 Host

Product Description

The Lenovo 01CV830 is a high-performance Host Bus Adapter (HBA) featuring Emulex technology, designed to facilitate robust connectivity between servers and Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). This Gen6 Fibre Channel adapter operates at a blazing 16Gbps per port, ensuring rapid data transfer rates essential for demanding enterprise workloads, virtualization, and high-availability storage environments. The single-port configuration makes it suitable for servers where space or cost considerations favor fewer, high-performance connections. As a Gen6 HBA, the 01CV830 is built to support the latest advancements in Fibre Channel technology, including support for NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe). This allows for lower latency and higher IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) compared to traditional Fibre Channel protocols, significantly boosting the performance of flash storage arrays. The adapter typically utilizes a PCIe interface for connection to the server's motherboard, ensuring high bandwidth between the HBA and the server's CPU. This HBA is crucial for environments that rely on SANs for storage consolidation, data sharing, and business continuity. It provides reliable, low-latency access to storage resources, enabling applications to perform optimally. Lenovo often integrates or offers HBAs like the 01CV830 as options for their ThinkSystem servers, ensuring compatibility and performance tuning for their server platforms.