QLogic’s FC HBA for OpenSolaris

QLogic Corp.
announced the availability of the industry’s first Fibre Channel host
bus adapters (HBA) with target mode capabilities for the OpenSolaris Storage community.
Building on the largest installed base of 2Gb and 4Gb Fibre Channel
HBAs in Solaris environments, QLogic SANblade HBAs enable enterprise
users to use the Solaris OS in target-mode applications, making it
possible for developers to build SAN-based storage systems based on
Solaris. As an active member in the OpenSolaris community and a key
member of the Sun ecosystem, QLogic fully supports both initiator and
target mode capabilities under OpenSolaris for its full line of
SANblade Fibre Channel HBAs.

The
OpenSolaris Storage community, a Sun sponsored project, was created as
a place for collaboration and conversation around OpenSolaris storage
technology for developers, ISVs, and customers to leverage open source
to drive innovation and new market opportunities for storage. By making
their Fibre Channel HBA technology available for OpenSolaris, QLogic
has contributed a key component of the storage stack to the open source
world.

“Building
on our long-standing relationship with Sun and the OpenSolaris
community, we are pleased to be the first company to deliver Fibre
Channel HBAs for target mode applications using OpenSolaris,” said Amit
Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. “The
Solaris platform has been a key element in the advancement of storage
area networking and the OpenSolaris storage project has ensured that
this important operating system delivers increasingly greater
functionality and innovation in the enterprise.”

“QLogic,
a long-standing partner of Sun and a member of the OpenSolaris
community, has delivered a critical component to the enterprise,” said
David Kenyon, vice-president, Storage Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
“SANblade Fibre Channel solutions make it possible for Global 2000
customers to implement open, highly functional storage networks.
Likewise this contribution to the community helps ensure greater
interoperability and more functionality from SAN networks for
OpenSolaris users and validates our strategy to open source every
software product at Sun, literally billions of dollars in assets, and
fueling the communities and innovation around these technologies.”|

More
than 95 percent of Fibre Channel HBAs in Solaris OS environments are
from QLogic. This large installed base encompasses the entire range of
Sun application and hardware environments. OpenSolaris presents a rich
opportunity for developers using open source to add functionality or
customize storage technology for new applications and platforms.

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