COSTA MESA, Calif., Aug. 25, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that the Emulex MultiPulse software solution is now supported by HP, bringing full-featured multipathing capabilities to active/active storage array customers using Emulex HBAs within Linux 2.6-based storage environments. Emulex MultiPulse software solution can enhance HP storage systems by offering failover and static load balancing capabilities to ensure continuous data availability.
Emulex's MultiPulse technology aggregates the bandwidth and availability of HBAs, switch ports, and array controllers, and intelligently manages multiple I/O streams. This functionality is designed to maximize the efficiency and utilization of fabric resources and provide improved performance.
"HP support for MultiPulse helps customers maximize the efficiency and utilization of SAN infrastructure solutions, while providing improved performance," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "Incorporating the Emulex MultiPulse solutions also enables delivery of highly available storage solutions."
As part of Emulex's HBA driver software, MultiPulse defines and monitors multiple end-to-end paths for each configured logical unit number (LUN) based on visibility into the entire storage area network (SAN). As a result, MultiPulse can instantly reroute traffic around a failed component within the fabric, protecting application availability while enabling superior SAN reliability, performance and resource utilization. Emulex MultiPulse is easily installed, configured and managed either locally or remotely using Emulex's HBA management suite, HBAnyware.
"By supporting Emulex MultiPulse software, we can now offer our Linux customers a choice for reliable, low cost SAN solutions for high availability," said Kyle Fitze, director of SAN marketing, StorageWorks Division, HP. "Native multipath management is a key part of our strategy to simplify and reduce the cost of FC SANs."
Emulex's MultiPulse software is designed, optimized and tested for the high-availability attachment of HP StorageWorks arrays to HP server families, both 32- and 64-bit and including HP p-Class and c-Class BladeSystem servers. Contact HP for an up-to-date list of servers featuring MultiPulse support. In addition, HP has incorporated MultiPulse support for its StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVAs) 4000/6000/8000, StorageWorks 1500cs Modular Smart Array, and StorageWorks XP12000 and XP10000 Disk Arrays.
Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs -- Generations Ahead
Emulex LightPulse HBAs leverage seven generations of advanced, field-proven technology, providing customers with the highest quality SAN connectivity solutions that the world's leading enterprises have come to rely upon. With a unique firmware upgradeable architecture, common driver model and centralized management tools for simplified installation and deployment, Emulex HBAs are simply "Generations Ahead" of competing solutions. The Emulex suite of Fibre Channel HBAs offers the following industry-leading features and benefits:
-- Superior Quality and Reliability - Field-proven,
single-chip design with a combination of parity and other
advanced error checking methods to validate the integrity
of data blocks.
-- Most Efficient Installation and Management - Unique tools
designed to automate installation and provide local and
remote HBA configuration and management. The Emulex
architecture allows complete independence of device drivers
from HBA hardware and firmware, which translates into
time- and cost-savings by eliminating the need to reboot
during most configuration changes and providing
compatibility across HBA generations.
-- Maximum SAN Performance - Experience superior full-duplex
data throughput and I/O processing, ideal for real-world
application environments. Dynamic Frame Multiplexing is
another exclusive Emulex feature designed to consistently
provide superior performance in mixed workload environments,
such as disk and tape back-up.
-- Fastest Diagnosis and Recovery - Ensures fast and efficient
SAN troubleshooting with comprehensive diagnostics, detailed
event logging and tracing.
-- Broadest Enterprise Deployments - With the largest installed
base of HBAs, Emulex SAN connectivity solutions are trusted
by the world's largest, mission-critical enterprises.
About Emulex
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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