COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that its PCI Express I/O Controller-based HBAs from HP are now supported for use with HP Integrity mid-range rx7640 and rx8640 servers and the high-end Integrity Superdome servers to provide Fibre Channel SAN connectivity.
The Emulex IOC 3532 provides HP's new PCI Express-based Integrity mid-range and Superdome servers with a wide range of SAN connectivity solutions with support for HP-UX 11i and OpenVMS operating environments. The HP-branded single channel HBAs (HP model # AD299A) and dual channel HBAs (HP model # AD355A), which are based on the Emulex IOC 3532, are now available.
"Support of Emulex Fibre Channel technology for HP Integrity mid-range and high-end Integrity servers provides end users with a robust connectivity solution," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "Our IOC technology meets the needs of multiple solution environments, ranging from HP BladeSystem to enterprise and mid-range storage systems, and provides users with high-performance SAN connectivity options that meet the needs of growing data centers."
HP Integrity servers can easily attach to networked storage through Emulex SAN connectivity solutions and are designed to offer customers mission-critical workload consolidation and virtualization capabilities.
"In data center environments with varied server and storage infrastructures, reliable connectivity tools are vital," said Michelle Weiss, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. "By working with Emulex to provide HP Integrity customers with SAN connectivity solutions for PCI Express-based server environments, customers can install and manage a large number of servers and storage arrays, offering better management and flexibility."
HP Integrity entry-class servers, including the rx2660, rx3600 and rx6600, are already supported with the Emulex IOC 3532 technology, as well as with Emulex's LightPulse(r) 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 http://www.emulex.com.
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