Emulex Previews HBAanywhere Features

At VMworld Europe, 24-26 February 2009, Emulex will be

demonstrating the new virtual port (Vport) mapping and CIM-based

management capabilities for VMware ESXi in its upcoming release ofHBAnyware(r) 4.1, a centralised adapter management application.

The demonstration, in Emulex booth #145, highlights the benefits of

Emulex connectivity solutions operating in a virtualised and

converged networking environment running VMware ESX and ESXi.

Emulex is showcasing the seamless management and migration ofvirtual machines over 8Gb/s Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over

Ethernet (FCoE) storage networking topologies using VMware

VMotion(tm) running on a combination of blade and rack mount

servers.

Emulex HBAnyware provides comprehensive control of EmulexLightPulse(r) Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and FCoE

Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) within a centralised,

cross-platform framework.

The new release adds Vport mapping, offering IT managers end-to-end

relationship mapping between Vports and virtual machines (VMs)within a single management window. The new Vport mapping

capability saves IT managers' time by allowing them to more rapidly

track performance bottlenecks and re-provision virtualised

resources within a dynamic business environment.

The upcoming HBAnyware release also includes complete CIM-basedmanagement capabilities for VMware ESXi environments, which

streamlines data centre administrative operations by providing

comprehensive adapter discovery and management capabilities for the

VMware platform.

HBAnyware is the foundation for Emulex's newly announcedOneCommand(tm) Convergence Framework, which enables centralised

enterprise management for I/O services, connectivity,

virtualisation, security, QoS and other foundational elements

within converged networks.

On Wednesday 25 February, Emulex is presenting "Optimising Your

Data Centre for the Coming Cloud," session #1571, at 16:30 in theVer Californie room.

VMware and Emulex have developed a new best practices guide,

"Network Convergence with Emulex LP21000 CNAs and VMware ESX,"

targeted at server, storage and network administrators, which

provides information about network convergence using FCoE

technology and an overview about how to extract the maximumbenefits from network convergence using FCoE technology in a VMware

ESX environment.

Emulex is a gold sponsor of VMworld Europe 2009, the only

connectivity partner in the VMware Alliance Affiliate Initiative, a

VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program member and

participant in the VMware I/O Vendor Program.

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