ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 11, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leader in networking for storage and high performance computing (HPC), today announced that QLogic(r) SANblade(r) Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) will offer N_Port_ID Virtualization (NPIV) for the upcoming release of VMware Infrastructure, the latest offering from VMware which will include VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5. Through its collaboration with VMware, QLogic SANblade HBAs bring the numerous benefits of hardware-assist virtualization to customers, including enhanced quality-of-service and dynamic provisioning without restrictions on zoning and LUN masking.
"VMware has established itself as the leader in infrastructure virtualization for industry-standard systems," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. "Customers have been eagerly awaiting HBA-level virtualization solutions for VMware Infrastructure environments, which give businesses the advanced automation solutions and virtual infrastructure capabilities they require. As with previous versions of VMware Infrastructure, we have optimized our SANblade HBAs to provide an excellent user experience."
"By leveraging the co-development resources provided through the VMware Community Source program, QLogic was able to deliver on a key technology such as NPIV, which enables end users to transfer SAN best practices from the physical world to virtualized environments," said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. "Businesses of all sizes can benefit from the features available in the new release of VMware Infrastructure, which increases the availability of IT environments, boosts performance of mission-critical workloads and streamlines management."
QLogic End-to-End Portfolio of Virtualization Technology
QLogic is uniquely positioned to address the storage connectivity of a virtualized data center with hardware-assist virtualization technology inside its end-to-end portfolio of fabric switches, intelligent pass-through modules and host bus adapters. For more details on the benefits of QLogic comprehensive virtualization products, read the company's latest white papers at http://www.qlogic.com/EducationAndResources/WhitePapersResourcelibrarySan.aspx.
About QLogic
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel HBAs, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs and iSCSI routers. The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.
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