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Press Contact: Robin Austin, Director, Public Relations , 714-885-3462
Emulex Teams with Cisco and VMware to Deliver Enhanced Storage Solution
New Offering Combines Benefits of NPIV and VMware VMotion™ to Provide Enhanced Capabilities for Maintaining SAN Best Practices and Virtual Machine Migration
Cisco Networkers, BARCELONA, SPAIN, January 24, 2008 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the availability of a storage networking solution that runs on VMware virtualization infrastructure and incorporates Emulex LightPulse® 4Gb/s host bus adapters (HBAs), Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switches and VMware ESX Server 3.5.
The new offering leverages industry-standard NPIV to provide customers with the functionality to maintain storage area network (SAN) best practices, while delivering improved Quality of Service (QoS) and data protection capabilities. Additionally, Emulex has teamed with Cisco and VMware to integrate NPIV functionality into VMware VMotion technology, which enhances storage access by maintaining the same Virtual Port ID while migrating live virtual machines from one physical host to another.
"This solution brings together the best in virtualized server and storage technologies, innovation and expertise by combining the unique features associated with NPIV and VMware VMotion. VMware VMotion helps eliminate downtime and works with NPIV to ensure a continuous SAN connection during the virtual machine migration process, and enables leverage of critical features and functionality, such as zoning," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "By working with Cisco and VMware, we can provide our joint customers with a complete set of tools to enable infrastructure-wide virtualization and its full benefits including business continuity, disaster recovery and simplified IT management."
Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc., the largest direct seller of home accessories in North America, is currently migrating more than 100 Windows server hosts to a VMware virtualized environment and is in the process of converting all of its SAN connectivity to Emulex LightPulse HBAs.
"We are impressed with the capabilities of Emulex HBAs and the relationship between Emulex, Cisco and VMware. Implementing Emulex's LightPulse Virtual HBA technology with industry-standard NPIV support is a necessary step in our ongoing transition to a virtualized data center environment," said Levi Spears, SAN and Windows system administrator, Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc. "With the full integration of Emulex Virtual HBA technology within VMware ESX Server, we now have an easy route to implement SAN management best practices with capabilities such as zoning, array LUN masking and mapping across all of our virtual machines."
Another key capability of using the Emulex, Cisco and VMware solution includes the ability to create a unique identity for each virtual machine that can be tracked throughout the SAN. With this virtual machine identity, the data center manager can track statistics such as I/O throughput and error rates to better manage storage traffic and detect errors at the virtual machine level.
"Networked storage is fundamental to a virtualized architecture," said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. "This solution provides new options for implementing SAN best practices within a virtualized environment."
Emulex and Cisco have created a Solution Guide that provides data center users with practical use cases and deployment scenarios for maximizing and understanding the benefits of NPIV technology within a VMware environment. For more information, visit
http://www.emulex.com/white/hba/CiscoEmulexVirtualizationforVMware.pdf.
Emulex is demonstrating these enhanced capabilities based on VMware virtualization software at this week's Cisco Networkers in Barcelona, Spain, January 21-24, in booth #E2.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
