QLogic FC, iSCSI and CNAs Qualified With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

QLogic Corp. announced qualification of its 8/4/2 Gb Fibre Channel, 1GbE iSCSI and 10GbEE converged network adapters with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. QLogic Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapter technology is included in the latest distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. FCoE allows customers to leverage native virtualization, clustering and security capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, while reducing hardware port requirements.
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 includes support for larger x86-64 systems and cluster-wide mirroring (RAID-1) which dramatically improves the availability of shared storage environments, and will be valued by customers who are deploying virtualized environments and using live migration.
 
“QLogic has collaborated with Red Hat and the Linux community to ensure that our adapters are optimized to take advantage of the latest virtualization and security features,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. “QLogic customers can now leverage products capable of supporting multiple technologies to confidently deploy their storage and data networks with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.”