Emulax to provide Virtual HBA tools for Solaris environments | | 2008-07-24 | | Emulax has launched a revamped version of its LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs).
The HBAs, which are available from Sun as the Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4Gb/s PCI Express HBA, now offer Virtual HBA technology within Solaris 10 environments. Enhancements such as virtual port management, available via Emulex’s next generation HBAnyware management suite, are designed to enhance the overall functionality of Solaris Containers.
"Once again, Emulex is demonstrating leadership in the area of virtualization by providing enhanced capabilities for virtualized servers within Solaris environments," said Scott McIntyre, vice president of customer marketing, Emulex Corp. "Emulex pioneered Virtual HBA technology and is the only HBA vendor to support Sun’s Solaris Containers for virtualized server environments."
Emulex’s family of 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s HBAs will allow users to set up each virtual machine with its own protected storage. The system uses the NPIV standard to tap into a host of SAN management tools, including fabric zoning and LUN mapping and masking.
The HBAnyware suite is compatible across Microsoft, VMware, Linux and Xen platforms, allowing application across mixed environments.
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