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| February 6, 2008 03:00 PM EST |
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Emulex announced availability of its LightPulse LPe12000
family of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), which provide enhanced
I/O performance and features that extend the benefits of server virtualization
and meet the increasing demands of large transactional databases.
The Emulex LPe12000 familyof HBAs offer twice the
performance of today's leading products, providing the I/O scalability
necessary to support an increase in the number of applications running on a
virtualized server. Leveraging these new products to consolidate additional
applications onto fewer physical servers increases the benefits of server
virtualization, such as reduced procurement and management costs, as well as
lower power and cooling costs.
Additionally, the LPe12000 provides the increased I/O
processing speed and throughput needed by large business-critical databases and
transaction processing applications to scale to support additional users and
larger database files. With innovative features such as end-to-end data
protection and advanced CPU off-load, the LPe12000 family meets the demanding
requirements of next generation database applications.
"Capturing 13 design wins for our 8Gb/s products
reinforces our leadership position with this generation of products and
demonstrates the demand for advanced storage capabilities and features, such as
data integrity and authentication, that only Emulex is providing to its end
user customers," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide
marketing, Emulex Corporation. "It is clear that our customers are focused
on consolidation via virtualization, as well as leveraging multi-core and
bladed servers, and Emulex is seamlessly delivering the enhanced functionality
and bandwidth required with its 8Gb/s product family while providing seamless
integration within their existing environments."
Virtualized servers running multiple applications, and
business-critical database engines, require additional protection against data
loss and security breaches, because the cost of such failures is high. Emulex's
LPe12000 family of HBAs incorporate the enhanced security and data protection
features needed to meet the demanding requirements of virtualized servers and
business-critical applications in the data center.
The Emulex LPe12000 product family provides the following
benefits:
- Increased performance and scalability with emphasis on
virtualized environments:
- Increased performance for the Fibre Channel network (8Gb/s)
and server bus (PCI Express 2.0)
- Accelerated response time, even when attached to 4Gb/s
fabrics due to faster on-board processing
- Server CPU offload with Message-Signaled Interrupts eXtended
(MSI-X)
- Hardware acceleration for virtual fabrics
- Advanced protection of corporate information assets:
- Data integrity protection (BlockGuard)
- Authentication
- Cost of ownership and investment protection:
- Scalability from the smallest to the very largest environments
(increased number of configurable storage devices, of NPIV virtual ports, and
of simultaneous exchanges)
- Enhanced power and cooling efficiency
- Common driver leveraging Emulex service level interface
(SLI)
- Support for PCI-Express 1.0 and 2.0
- Auto speed negotiation to 2Gb/s, 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s for
interoperability with legacy dev
- Enhanced maintainability:
- Advanced diagnostics on optical transceivers
- Enhanced non-volatile error logging
- High-temperature alerts and extreme temperature auto-shutdown
"The introduction of 8Gb/s HBAs by Emulex is a crucial
next step towards increasing network capacity for next-generation data
centers," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst, Taneja Group.
"Further, as virtualized server environments and databases continue to
grow, Emulex's 8Gb/s HBA technology provides the vital protection against data
loss and security breaches that enterprises require."
Designed to maintain backward compatibility with existing
4Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel products, Emulex PCI Express 2.0-based 8Gb/s HBAs
enable a seamless transition to next-generation SANs. Further, Emulex HBAs
provide driver compatibility across all generations of Emulex HBAs, making the
incorporation of the LPe12000 family into existing environments seamless.
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