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Enterprise Scalability

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Enterprise Deployment, Manageability, and Troubleshooting

With IT resources shrinking, capacity requirements growing and tolerance for downtime diminishing, enterprise organizations realize that ease of deployment, manageability and troubleshooting are critical scalability concerns. Emulex AutoPilot Installer® significantly reduces the time required to deploy HBAs in large enterprise SANs. Emulex also delivers ease of deployment to large enterprises by providing silent automated installations across servers and enables customers to establish a reference configuration from which they can then replicate servers.

Once an HBA is installed, Emulex simplifies day-to-day management with HBAnyware®. HBAnyware is the only HBA software package that lets IT organizations manage their Fibre Channel host bus adapters from anywhere in the SAN. The ability to run diagnostics without disruption, install new firmware without stopping a server and provide robust security are just a few of the features that make HBAnyware one of the most popular applications for SAN administrators.

IT organizations cannot tolerate downtime, which is why Emulex offers enterprise class diagnostics and recovery facilities. Unique features such as the ability to run power-on self-tests without disrupting operations, "crash dumps" for efficient traceability and root cause analysis, as well simplified rapid replacement are some of the troubleshooting facilities designed into Emulex HBAs.

Multi-channel throughput for real-world applications

Emulex multi-channel throughput allows users to scale up for performance-intensive applications. Emulex 4Gb/s dual-channel HBAs deliver 78% better throughput, 36% higher transaction rates and 27% greater CPU efficiency compared to QLogic.

Emulex is the enterprise leader

Scalability impacts the total cost of ownership, performance and availability. IT organizations cannot afford to standardize on an HBA only to find out that it runs out of bandwidth or it becomes unmanageable in large-scale deployments. Emulex is clearly the leader in enterprise scalability which is one of the reasons that more than 90 of the Fortune 100 use Emulex HBAs for their mission-critical applications.