the 2600 Series adapters are QLogic Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapters. they boast industry-leading native Fibre Channel performance achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit Fibre Channel throughput—at extremely low CPU usage with full hardware offloads. This extreme performance eliminates potential I/O bottlenecks in today’s powerful multiprocessor, multicore servers.
In addition, support for powerful virtualization features makes this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (VMs).