A Converged Network Adapter (CNA) is a Network Adapter that supports both the Ethernet and Fibre Channel standards. It provides 10/40 Gbps connectivity to Ethernet networks and also connects to Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Data Center Bridging (DCB). The adapter consolidates Ethernet data and FCoE storage traffic, reducing the number of cables and adapters needed for a server. The CNA provides 2 independent physical functions per port which can both be used at the same time for FC and Ethernet. Each port of the device provides separate NIC and HBA functions to the operating system or hypervisor. FC and network traffic are transmitted simultaneously over a common cable to a DCB-enabled FCoE switch which segregates Ethernet and Fibre Channel I/O to the appropriate network. Converged Network Adapter (CNA) Emulex OCe14102 The Emulex OneConnect Universal CNA OCe14000 family of Ethernet Network Adapters is the FCoE and most advanced generation of Emulex Ethernet adapters. Powered by the XE100 controller, OCe14000 adapters offer enhanced support for virtualization, cloud and hyperscale cluster deployments. This paper highlights support for Emulex’s Virtual Network eXceleration initiative that delivers support for Single Root I/O Virtualization, Universal Multi-Channel™ NIC Partitioning and Stateless TCP/IP Offloads amongst its many capabilities. As a member of the CNA 14000 family, the OCe14102 uses a 10Gbit/s DCB (Converged Enhanced Ethernet) infrastructure for networking and storage, reducing capital expense (CapEx) for adapters, switches and cables, and operational expense (OpEx) for power, cooling and IT administration. The OCe14102 adapter increases data center IT agility and scalability, as well as optimation of the server hardware utilization by scaling high density virtualization. The OCe14102 with 10GbE UCNAs is designed for the high bandwidth and scalability demands of Tier-1 enterprise applications with storage protocol (FCoE and iSCSI) offloads, more scalable virtualization with support for enhanced SingleRoot I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and NIC port partitioning, and cloud optimization using Overlay Networking technology