QLogic 2600 Series Hyper-V Virtual Server Engine - Manual (Page 5)

A New VM Engine
Two more cores, 8MB more cache, six more DIMMs of faster DDR3-
1600 memory increasing to 768GB, double the I/O bandwidth with
PCIe 3.0, and more Intel QuickPath links between processors.
Xeon E5
Xeon E5 offers double the I/O bandwidth to 10GbE NICs, 10GbE FCoE, and 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel.
The Intel Xeon E5 Platform
The introduction of the Intel® Xeon® E5 family of processors responds to the call for more virtual server
resources with two more cores, 8MB more cache, and six more DIMMs of faster DDR3-1600 memory,
increasing the total to eight cores, 768GB of RAM, and doubling the I/O bandwidth with PCIe® 3.0.
Intel’s new Xeon E5 promises a significant increase in server I/O by enabling full-bandwidth, four-port 10GbE
server adapters as well as dual-port Gen 5 Fibre Channel server adapter support,
addressing the VM density
issue with a substantial increase in I/O bandwidth that host servers require.
Intel Xeon E5 Platform