COSTA MESA, Calif., May 15, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, today announced that its LightPulse(r) Fibre Channel HBAs used within VMware ESX Server are qualified and supported by HP for storage area network (SAN) connectivity to HP StorageWorks XP, EVA and MSA arrays, and HP ProLiant server solutions. This qualification enables customers implementing VMware virtual infrastructure software -- for partitioning, consolidating and managing servers in mission-critical environments -- to deploy HP-branded HBAs from Emulex for high performance SAN connectivity to the HP StorageWorks and HP ProLiant server solutions.
"The increased deployment of virtualized server environments is driving the need for more servers to leverage SANs and Emulex is leading the way with superior connectivity solutions for HP StorageWorks and VMware ESX Server environments," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "Teaming with HP and VMware not only underscores the importance of Emulex's presence in virtualized environments, but ensures end users may continue to deploy the superior SAN connectivity solutions they have already standardized on throughout their mission-critical data centers."
The Emulex HBAs supported by HP include the LP1050-based models of single- and dual-channel HBAs. The Emulex LP1050 family of single- and dual-channel HBAs delivers exceptional performance, reliability and scalability. Customers who have standardized their data centers on Emulex HBAs for SAN connectivity may continue to reap the same performance and seamless management capabilities, while also realizing fully compatible solutions for virtualized environments.
"We are working closely with Emulex to deliver the most robust SAN storage and connectivity offerings on the market today," said Kyle Fitze, director of SAN marketing, StorageWorks Division, HP. "Leveraging our long-standing relationship with Emulex and VMware, we are able to deliver trusted, high-performance server and storage solutions for our customers' virtualized server environments."
In addition to today's announcement, Emulex is working closely with VMware on a number of initiatives, including the forthcoming release of Emulex's LightPulse Virtual HBA technology to the broader market. As more IT managers are looking to virtual infrastructure for consolidation, increased resource utilization and management flexibility, the Emulex LightPulse Virtual HBA technology in conjunction with VMware VMotion technology and VMware ESX Server, enables each virtual machine or guest operating system to own and access a dedicated World Wide Port Name (WWPN), even when several virtual machines are sharing the same physical host bus adapter. This new capability enables each guest to be managed independently, using SAN best practices for security and configuration management, such as fabric-based zoning and storage Logical Unit (LUN) mapping.
"VMware continues to integrate broad support for the Emulex LightPulse family of HBAs because the majority of VMware virtual infrastructure deployments are SAN-attached," said Patrick Lin, Director of Product Management, VMware. "Through the powerful combination of virtualization and shared storage, our customers are able to implement solutions, such as server consolidation and containment and business continuity that improve the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and flexibility of their IT operations."
For more information on the Emulex LightPulse family of HBAs, including the Emulex LightPulse Virtual HBA technology, please visit http://www.emulex.com/pdfs/wp-nport.pdf.
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Emulex Corporation is the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity and a leading provider of critical building blocks for intelligent data center infrastructure solutions. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, embedded storage switching, intelligent storage platforms and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex ranked number 19 in the Deloitte 2005 Technology Fast 50 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX). Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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