Chelsio Delivers Unified Manager 2.0 Software

Chelsio Communications, provider of 10Gb Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters, ASICs and Unified Storage solutions, announced the availability of Unified Manager (UM) 2.0, software that centrally manages all Chelsio network adapter cards, Unified Storage Router (USR) appliances, and Unified Storage Server (USS) software across Linux, Mac, Solaris, VMWare, and Windows environments.

In addition to supporting Chelsio T4 Unified Wire adapters and the USR and USS solutions, UM 2.0 simplifies operations by allowing driver installation and maintenance across multiple nodes and also enabling customers to manage their Chelsio Unified Wire adapters via mobile devices such as iPADs, Kindle Fire, Android, Blackberries and iPhones, etc. UM 2.0 also extends OS support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Mac OS, Oracle Solaris 10, VMWare and Windows.

UM 2.0 further reduces operational costs with new built-in tools and guides. With its intuitive, easy to navigate user interface, the Unified Manager software enables users to manage all their Chelsio Unified Wire adapters, USR appliances and USS in one window, from anywhere, centralizing the management of SAN or NAS environments. Among the new feature enhancements added into UM 2.0 are remote bulk driver installation, boot management, network discovery, automatic alerts, event notification, FCoE support, statistics gathering, managing access controls, and bandwidth management of flows. While it minimizes operational costs through centralized control, UM 2.0 scales to support small and large deployments.

"The Unified Manager software has proved to be a very successful administrative tool for our Chelsio customers, enabling them to minimize their operational costs with centralized control," said Gautam Shah, president of Colfax International (Sunnyvale, CA). "UM 2.0 has a lot of added flexibility, bringing a host of new features for a wide range of operating systems and including new mobility capabilities that our customers should find extremely useful."

UM 2.0 is available from Chelsio and distributors.

The company is currently offering a free 30-day trial (you need to register). This license supports 10 Chelsio Unified Wire Adapters along with 10 USR appliances.