COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 5, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and embedded storage switches, announced today that the Emulex Fibre Channel HBA Storport miniport driver has been qualified for connectivity within HP servers and HP StorageWorks systems deployed in storage area network (SAN) environments running Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Released with the Windows Server 2003 platform, Storport is a new driver model designed to match the high performance capabilities of SANs and hardware-based disk arrays. Utilizing the Emulex Storport miniport driver, which was designed from the ground-up to deliver the full range of Storport features for Windows-based HP servers and StorageWorks SAN solutions, improves the reliability, serviceability and manageability of heterogeneous SAN environments.
"HP continues to deploy solutions for the rapidly growing enterprise and mid-range storage market segments and use of the new Emulex Storport driver further increases the functionality and manageability of HP's Windows-based server and storage solutions deployed in SAN environments," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing of Emulex. "Emulex looks forward to continuing its work with HP to raise the bar in terms of SAN features, performance and scalability."
"Emulex's robust Storport miniport driver design has not only successfully passed the rigorous testing required by HP for use with its server and StorageWorks SAN solutions, but it offers new and enhanced functionality that our customers will greatly benefit from," said Kyle Fitze, director of marketing, Online Storage Division, HP. "We have full confidence that SAN solutions utilizing the new Storport miniport driver coupled with Emulex HBAs and HP servers and storage systems will meet the needs of the most challenging heterogeneous storage environments."
The Emulex Storport miniport driver implementation enables customers to realize the advantages of full duplex and high volume I/O transfers, increased device logins, as well as sophisticated I/O queue management functions. The Microsoft Storport driver, coupled with the Emulex Storport miniport HBA driver, also helps solution providers like HP to deliver higher I/O throughput and greater storage resource manageability on the Windows Server 2003 platform. The Windows Server 2003 operating system, which utilizes the Microsoft Storport driver, is designed to take advantage of Emulex's 64-bit extensions driver technology integrated into the Emulex Storport miniport drivers.
"The combination of the Emulex Storport miniport HBA driver and Microsoft Storport driver ensures that customers will garner additional functionality and reliability in Windows-based storage environments," said Dr. Claude Lorenson, technical product manager, storage technologies at Microsoft Corp. "The Storport miniport driver model demonstrates how the Windows Server 2003 environment is ideal for both enterprise and midrange SAN environments."
This qualification encompasses support for Emulex 2Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs, including the LightPulse LP1050, LP982, LP9002, LP9802 and dual channel LP9802DC. The Emulex HBA family offers high-performance, standards-based connectivity solutions across storage network environments. Emulex HBAs also support the Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows NT operating systems, including the Storport driver released with the Windows Server 2003 platform. Emulex HBAs also support Windows Server 2003 storage technologies including Virtual Disk service (VDS), Volume Shadow Copy service (VSS), and Multi-Path I/O (MPIO).
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About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. 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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