Emulex HBA with 8Gb FC and FCoE

Emulex Corporation is extending the
capabilities of its leading-edge Virtual Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
technology to its emerging technology platforms: 8Gb/s Fibre Channel
HBAs and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters
(CNAs). Emulex Virtual HBA technology, which is based on
industry-standard N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), is vital for
effectively managing storage-connected resources in a server
virtualization environment.

When combined with the inherent advantages and bandwidth of 8Gb/s
Fibre Channel and 10Gb/s FCoE, Emulex enables increased benefits of
server virtualization and consolidation by providing greater I/O
capacity within the server. Emulex LightPulse Virtual HBAs and CNAs are
equipped with a Service Level Interface (SLI), which enables driver
compatibility across all generations of Emulex products, including the
forthcoming 8Gb/s LightPulse LPe12000 HBAs and FCoE CNAs.

"Extending support for Emulex Virtual HBA technology to our new
suite of 8Gb/s and FCoE products will enable our end user customers to
gain even greater benefits from server virtualization," said Mike
Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "Emulex
has historically driven forward the adoption of new Fibre Channel
technology and is dedicated to making the transition to 8Gb/s Fibre
Channel and FCoE technology as seamless as possible for its data center
customers, while maintaining key capabilities, such as virtual machine
migration."

The demonstration at this week’s Cisco Networkers event showcases
NPIV supported virtual machine migration across virtual server
environments between differing network speeds and protocols. The
demonstration includes the Emulex LightPulse 8Gb/s LPe12000 and 4Gb/s
LPe11000 families with Virtual HBA technology based on
industry-standard NPIV, and an Emulex FCoE CNA, connected to leading
fabric switches. Additionally, Emulex CNAs are also featured in a FCoE
Technology demonstration in the Nuova booth #E5.

"Teaming with Emulex to showcase the benefits of FCoE reinforces the
strong ecosystem support for this compelling next generation data
center I/O consolidation technology," said Soni Jiandani, chief
marketing officer, Nuova Systems. "FCoE is key to providing our mutual
customers with products designed to enable deployment of LAN and SAN
connectivity on servers while lowering cabling, power and cooling
expenses. We will continue working closely with Emulex to drive data
center convergence with expanded SAN connectivity solutions that
leverage existing management tools."

"This demonstration is unique in that it provides a glimpse into the
future of the data center and the benefits 8Gb/s Fibre Channel and FCoE
provide to end users," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting
analyst, Taneja Group. "As enterprises begin upgrading to faster
speeds, the ability to migrate virtual machines from 4Gb/s HBAs to
8Gb/s HBAs will be a necessity, and Emulex has proven this ability with
today’s demonstration and gone a step further by demonstrating this
capability within FCoE as well."

Emulex Corporation