Emulex Expands SAN Connectivity Offerings for HP Integrity Servers By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, May 27 2008
Emulex PCI Express I/O Controllers Provide
Scalability and Performance to Meet HP-UX and OpenVMS Users' Needs
COSTA MESA, Calif., May 27, 2008 -
Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that its PCI Express I/O
Controller (IOC) 3532 has been selected to support the new HP
multi-protocol Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for HP Integrity servers. The Emulex
IOC 3532 provides HP Integrity systems with a wide range of SAN connectivity
solutions for HP-UX 11i and OpenVMS operating environments.
"HP has selected the Emulex PCI
Express IOC technology to support its new line of multi-protocol HBAs,
reinforcing our leadership in providing high-performance SAN connectivity
solutions for enterprise data centers," said Mike Smith, executive vice
president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "The Emulex IOC
3532 now supports an even broader range of HP Integrity servers, spanning the
entry-class, mid-range and Superdome server lines, providing customers with the
most scalable SAN connectivity available."
HP Integrity servers can attach to
networked storage through Emulex SAN connectivity solutions and offer customers
mission-critical workload consolidation and virtualization capabilities. The
new HP multi-protocol HBAs (HP product numbers: AD221A, AD222A and AD393A) have
both PCI Express Fibre Channel and Ethernet ports to expand the connectivity
options for HP customers. These new Emulex-based connectivity solutions
are available in single and dual-port configurations over a choice of fiber or
copper and are supported by HP-UX l1i v3 and OpenVMS operating
environments.
"Together with our IHV partners,
we're expanding the flexibility of our customers' server environments by
incorporating support for a diverse set of high-performance technologies to our
growing line of HP Integrity servers," said Loraine Bartlett, director of
Integrity server marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. "The SAN
connectivity options and virtualization capabilities offered by the Emulex IOC
3532 further strengthen our ability to support business-critical workloads with
our Integrity line of servers."
Emulex HBA solutions are supported by a
wide variety of HP servers, including HP Integrity and HP9000 servers to
Superdome, and they support an entire range of operating environments including
HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, Integrity Windows and Linux, and Tru64 UNIX. Emulex
solutions include the IOC 3532 technology, as well as Emulex's
LightPulse® 4Gb/s LPe11002 dual channel and LPe1150 single channel Fibre
Channel PCI Express HBAs. For more information about Emulex HBA
technology, please visit http://www.emulex.com/products/hba/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
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 corporate headquarters are
located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other
information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com .
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