BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 14, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Microsoft Tech-Ed IT Forum -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced VMPilot(tm), a new management software application for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 environments. The Emulex VMPilot is designed for simplified creation and migration of virtual machines attached to storage area networks (SANs). Employing Emulex's 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) with its industry-leading LightPulse(r) Virtual HBA technology, VMPilot is designed to allow administrators to seamlessly deploy and migrate SAN-based virtual machines, while leveraging their existing SAN management tools and best practices.
"This is an important new SAN connectivity innovation for the advancement of data center virtualization," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex Corporation. "VMPilot allows Microsoft Virtual Server customers to virtualize their connection to SAN-attached storage, which translates into tremendous time- and cost-savings by enabling virtual machine migration without reconfiguring storage or copying files."
"Microsoft Virtual Server provides hardware consolidation and improved system utilization and this new SAN connectivity management application eases virtual machine creation processes and adds enhanced business continuance support for customers that want to connect virtual servers to SAN-attached storage," said Jim Ni, group product manager, Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corp. "Emulex's VMPilot has been designed for compatibility with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and future integration with Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager."
Emulex is teaming with Microsoft to demonstrate VMPilot at the Microsoft Tech-Ed IT Forum this week in booth B13. VMPilot provides a unique virtualized HBA connection based on industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV). A simple wizard creates virtual machines with SAN connectivity using virtual HBA ports that work like physical HBAs. This enables administrators to maintain all the benefits of SAN-based storage including use of standard SAN management tools and best practices, such as fabric zoning at the virtual machine level.
VMPilot also easily migrates virtual machines to alternate physical servers while maintaining their SAN attachment, saving storage managers from the time and effort of reconfiguring storage and fabrics or copying files. In addition, VMPilot allows storage managers to isolate applications and comply with service level agreements. VMPilot is in beta release and is scheduled to be available during the first quarter of 2007. For more information, visit www.emulex.com/virtualization.
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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