Organizations are looking for ways to optimize performance while reducing costs, and server virtualization has become the game-changing technology to achieve these objectives.  VMware® vSphere® 4 encompasses a new suite of  products that provides enhanced scalability, flexibility and reliability for server virtualization and opens the door to cloud computing.  With VMware vSphere 4, data centers can deliver computing resources in an agile, cost-effective way.

VMware vSphere 4 requires a scalable and reliable data infrastructure for today’s server virtualization and tomorrow’s next-generation cloud computing.  Emulex® LightPulse® Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) meet this requirement with high-speed, high-performance connections to storage area networks based on the proven Fibre Channel protocol.

Emulex HBAs and CNAs work with VMware vSphere 4 to:

• Dramatically reduce server capital and operational costs
• Increase server consolidation with improved  CPU efficiency and CPU offload
• Maximize I/O bandwidth to support SLA-based applications and demand peaks
• Reduce network costs with a converged 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel and IP network
• Efficiently manage  Emulex HBAs and CNAs online for all ESX and ESXi servers

If you’re looking to reduce costs and optimize your data center resources, we invite you to learn more about the synergistic benefits of using  Emulex HBAs, CNAs and management applications with VMware vSphere 4.