Emulex Delivers FCoE CNAs for Sun Microsystems' COMSTAR Project By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, November 18 2008
Fibre Channel and
FCoE Adapters Enable OpenSolaris Users and Vendors to Develop and Deploy New
Sun Storage Appliance Solutions within Converged Networks.
COSTA MESA, Calif.,
November 18, 2008 - Emulex
Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that it will offer Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) and Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) for use with
OpenSolaris' Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target (COMSTAR), thereby
providing end-to-end Fibre Channel and FCoE support within OpenSolaris
environments. Emulex's LightPulse®
HBAs and CNAs
enable Sun Microsystems'
OpenSolaris customers to evaluate and deploy storage appliances, while
experiencing the benefits of network convergence, such as increased server
efficiency, and lower power and cooling costs.
"The delivery of
Converged Network Adapters for Sun's COMSTAR is yet another proof point to Emulex's leadership in driving open source
solutions and encouraging data center innovation," said Scott McIntyre,
vice president of product marketing, Emulex
Corporation. "Using Emulex
HBAs and CNAs with COMSTAR provides users and partners with the flexibility to
develop and deploy COMSTAR-based appliances within existing infrastructures and
helping provide investment protection with next-generation data center
solutions."
Emulex's FCoE CNAs can simplify networking infrastructure
by consolidating Fibre Channel and networking traffic over a 10Gb/s Enhanced
Ethernet network, looking to reduce overall infrastructure costs and lower
overall power and cooling costs. Used within Sun Microsystems'
single-driver Solaris environment, Emulex
adapters ensure the best quality and the shortest learning curve for enterprise
users looking to deploy end-to-end FCoE in either initiator servers or target server
storage appliances. They also use the same driver code as the widely-qualified,
Fibre Channel-aware Leadville initiator driver, which provides a more efficient
and easy-to-manage interface for Solaris systems.
"Sun Microsystems
has always been at the forefront of storage application development and
partners, like Emulex, play a key
role in making that possible," said Michael Wojnar, product line manager,
Networking Group, Sun Microsystems. "By using Emulex's
adapters with the COMSTAR software framework, Solaris and OpenSolaris users can
now evaluate and deploy storage appliance solutions within the context of
emerging converged networks and experience enterprise storage
reliability, scalability and, performance."
The Emulex COMSTAR driver is posted on the community
site for Sun Microsystems' OpenSolarisTM project, an open source community and a place
for collaboration and exchange around open source technologies.
Emulex is a longstanding Sun Microsystems partner, and active
participant and contributor to the OpenSolaris community. Emulex also recently announced it was the
first vendor to provide Virtual HBA technology for Solaris environments for use with logical domains (LDoms),
containers, and xVM user domains. Additionally, Emulex
8Gb/s HBAs have been selected by Sun Microsystems for SAN connectivity across Sun FireTM Enterprise server families and Sun
StorageTekTM storage solutions. For more information on Emulex solutions for Sun Microsystems, visit:
http://www.emulex.com/sun/index.jsp.
About Emulex
Emulex
Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect
storage, servers and networks. The
world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex's award-winning HBAs, intelligent
storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges,
routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high-performance
storage and server solutions. Emulex
is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and has corporate
headquarters in Costa Mesa,
California. News releases and
other information about Emulex
Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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