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QLogic Enables HBA-Level Virtualization From VMware

QLogic Corp. announced that its SANblade Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) will offer
N_Port_ID Virtualization (NPIV) for the upcoming release of VMware
Infrastructure, the latest offering from VMware which
will include VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5. Through its
collaboration with VMware, QLogic SANblade HBAs bring the numerous
benefits of hardware-assist virtualization to customers, including enhanced quality-of-service and dynamic provisioning without restrictions on zoning and LUN masking. 

“VMware
has established itself as the leader in infrastructure virtualization
for industry-standard systems
,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of
marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. “Customers have been eagerly
awaiting HBA-level virtualization solutions for VMware Infrastructure
environments, which give businesses the advanced automation solutions
and virtual infrastructure capabilities they require. As with previous
versions of VMware Infrastructure, we have optimized our SANblade HBAs
to provide an excellent user experience
.”

By
leveraging the co-development resources provided through the VMware
Community Source program, QLogic was able to deliver on a key
technology such as NPIV, which enables end users to transfer SAN best
practices from the physical world to virtualized environments,
” said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. “Businesses of all sizes can benefit from the features available in the new release of VMware Infrastructure, which increases the availability of IT environments, boosts performance of mission-critical workloads and streamlines management.”  

 

QLogic Corp.

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