Hewlett Packard Enterprise QW971A Fibre Channel HBA

The HPE QW971A StoreFabric SN1000Q Fibre Channel HBA is a low-profile PCIe-based host bus adapter that provides 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN connectivity through a single Fibre Channel port. It’s designed for enterprise servers and is commonly installed in HPE ProLiant systems and data center environments to connect servers to SAN storage arrays, enabling high-speed data transfer for applications such as database management, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and high-performance computing. As part of the StoreFabric SN1000Q family, this HBA supports Windows, Linux, and VMware, ships with both standard and low-profile brackets, and operates as a low-power PCIe device to minimize server power usage.