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News Archive Press Releases Emulex supports HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure 4Gb/s HBAs for HP BladeSystem c-Class Whitepaper Products HP Certified |
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"We are confident HP BladeSystem will shape the architectural landscape for server blades going forward, and it is critical that HP work closely with its partners, like Emulex, to ensure SAN ecosystem support meets our customers' needs for robust and reliable data center solutions."
Paul Miller, vice president, marketing, Industry Standard Servers and HP BladeSystem.
Hewlett-Packard c-Class BladeSystem
The Emulex LPe1105-HP (HP part number 403621-B21) is a dual-channel 4 Giga bit per second (Gb/s) Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) specifically made for the HP c-Class BladeSystem. The RoHS compliant PCI Express to Fibre Channel HBA provides reliable, high-performance 4Gb/s connectivity, enabling high-availability to scalable storage in order to meet the needs of the most demanding applications and environments. The LPe1105-HP HBA, in a mezzanine form factor, complements the other Emulex HBAs that are also offered by HP for p-Class BladeSystem, HP ProLiants and HP Integrity servers.
Emulex has worked closely with HP to deliver a next-generation HBA for the c-Class BladeSystem. Merging the LPe1105-HP with HP's powerful blade server architecture delivers the benefits of simplicity, agility and value while also enabling SAN users to fully exploit the I/O bandwidth capabilities of the entire system.
LPe1105-HP attributes to ensure high-quality IT service delivery:
Cost-savvy
- Integration and consolidation of HBA components
- Full driver compatibility with all Emulex HBAs and mezzanine cards; one driver on each operating system supports all Emulex adapters
- Emulex's common driver model reduces management complexities and streamlines installation and upgrades
Change-ready
- Adaptive firmware-based architecture that simplifies upgrades and provides long term investment protection
- No server re-boots are necessary during firmware upgrades
- Auto speed negotiation allows seamless integration into existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel SANs
Energy-thrifty
- The LPe1105-HP consumes less power, approximately 40% less, than predecessor 2Gb/s mezzanine cards
Time-smart
- HBAnyware™ - simple to use installation and management tool
HBAnyware enables all Emulex HBAs to be seamlessly managed across the SAN and incorporates driver-based technology for automated discovery and control. Emulex HBAs include time- and cost-saving functionality, such as firmware upgrade, driver reconfiguration or persistent bindings and can be managed from any console within the SAN
Superior quality and reliability
- Emulex HBAs deliver industry-leading reliability levels, over 10 million hours MTBF by utilizing a field-proven single-chip design, that minimizes components
Superior performance
- The LPe1105-HP ensures consistent and superior performance in mixed work load environments, such as Exchange Server and Transactional Databases, based on Emulex's exclusive Dynamic Frame Multiplexing
Fast diagnosis and recovery
- Comprehensive diagnostic functions, coupled with detailed event logging and tracing, provide for fast and efficient SAN troubleshooting
Fibre Channel (FC) storage users continue the transition to 4Gb/s Storage Area Network (SAN) products. The evolution to 4Gb/s SANs is a natural migration from the preceding 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s SAN infrastructures and provides investment protection, through backward compatibility, as well as increased performance.
In addition to the improved performance provided by a 4Gb/s SAN infrastructure, no additional skills are required to use the new HBAs since installation/software management tools remain the same and the HBAs work seamlessly with existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s SAN infrastructures.
Emulex Corporation is the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity and a leading provider of critical building blocks for intelligent data center infrastructure solutions. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, embedded storage switching, intelligent storage platforms and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex ranked number 19 in the Deloitte 2005 Technology Fast 50 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX).
Emulex's advanced and proven technology enables HP to plan seamless product and technology transitions, deploy the best-in-class solutions, and maintain their leadership role in implementing new technology.
