The emulex virtual fabric adapter 5 for ibm system x builds on the foundation of previous generations of emulex vfas by delivering performance enhancements and additional features that maximize the return on server and storage investments the vfa5 is designed for the high bandwidth and scalability demands of tier 1 enterprise applications powered by storage protocol fiber channel over ethernet fcoe and iscsi and stateless tcp hardware offloads more scalable virtualization with single root i