The 2600 series adapters are qlogic's Sixth generation fiber Channel adapters. They boast industry-leading native fiber Channel performance-achieving dual-port, line-rate, 16-gigabit fiber 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 make this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need Excellent I/O performance to service growing numbers of virtual machines (vms).