The adapters offer CN4052S 10 Gb E connections and are cost- and performance-optimized for integrated and converged infrastructures. They offer a \"triple play\"of converged data, storage, and low latency RDMA networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The adapters provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged infrastructures. Multiprotocol support for 10 Gb E The adapters offer CN4052S 10 Gb E connections and are cost- and performance-optimized for integrated and converged infrastructures. They offer a \"triple play\"of converged data, storage, and low latency RDMA networking on a common Ethernet fabric. The adapters provides customers with a flexible storage protocol option for running heterogeneous workloads on their increasingly converged infrastructures. Virtual NIC emulation The Emulex VFA5. 2 family supports three NIC virtualization modes as standard: Virtual Fabric mode (vNIC1),switch independent mode (vNIC2),and Unified Fabric Port (UFP). With NIC virtualization, each of the physical ports on the adapter can be logically configured to emulate up to four virtual NIC (vNIC) functions with user-definable bandwidth settings. Additionally, each physical port can simultaneously support a storage protocol (FCo E or iSCSI). Full hardware storage offloads These adapters support an optional FCo E hardware offload engine, which is enabled via Lenovo Features on Demand (Fo D). The offload engine accelerates storage protocol processing and delivers up to 1. 5 million I/O operations per second (IOPS). This enables the server s processing resources to focus on applications and improves the server s overall performance. Lenovo Features on Demand (Fo D) The adapters use Fo D software activation technology. Fo D enables the adapters to be initially deployed as low-cost Ethernet NICs, and later upgraded in the field to support FCo E or iSCSI hardware offload. Emulex Virtual Network Acceleration (VNe X) technology support Emu