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Emulex LightPulse 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs Certified for VMware Environments
July 2008 by Marc Jacob
Emulex Corporation announced that its LightPulse® family of 8Gb/s host bus adapters (HBAs) are now certified for use with the VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisors. Emulex 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs deliver the I/O bandwidth and scalability necessary to support an increase in the number of applications running on the VMware platform, while enabling a seamless transition to next-generation SAN technology.
Emulex HBA drivers are included with VMware ESX and ESXi, providing customers with a rigorously tested, fully supported configuration for even the most demanding enterprise application environments. Emulex LightPulse HBAs include advanced Virtual HBA technology with support for industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), which allows customers to effectively “virtualize” SAN connections so that each virtual machine has independent access to its own protected storage. This provides a number of benefits, including the ability to track and chargeback the I/O throughput, storage traffic and utilization at the user and virtual machine level.
Emulex and VMware have created a Best Practices Guide that provides data center users with practical use cases and deployment scenarios for maximizing the benefits of using Emulex Virtual HBA technology within a VMware environment.
