Emulex drives 16Gb Fibre Channel ecosystem with partner adoption

DataCore™ Software, GreenBytes, Pure Storage, Quantum, and X-IO have certified Emulex 16GFC HBAs with their solutions, enabling the most scalable solutions for databases, virtualised and transaction-intensive environments in today’s demanding data centres. Emulex 16GFC HBAs are the most widely deployed 16GFC HBAs by OEMs, with more than 70 per cent of the overall revenue market share for 20121.

“Partners and appliance integrators continue to certify and adopt Emulex 16GFC I/O connectivity solutions because we offer the best performing HBA available today, enabling the most compelling application throughput and I/O scalability,” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “In addition, our superior reliability and extensive interoperability testing allows for seamless deployment across multiple platforms.”

Three key technologies that require the performance and low latency benefits of Emulex 16GFC adapters include virtualisation, flash storage and data backup and recovery. Partners have certified Emulex 16GFC HBAs in the following ways:

Virtualisation:
· DataCore Software: Emulex LightPulse 16GFC HBAs have been qualified as “DataCore Ready” ensuring interoperability with DataCore’s SANsymphony™-V storage hypervisor. SANsymphony-V leverages Emulex technology to circumvent bottlenecks associated with storage networking and maximise the capabilities of DataCore’s storage virtualisation software as it augments virtual and physical IT environments to get the highest availability, fastest performance and maximum utilisation from online disks.
· GreenBytes: Emulex 16GFC HBAs are certified for use with GreenBytes’ IO Offload Engine, a desktop virtualisation solution, maximising the effective performance and capacity of existing infrastructure to provide persistent, full-featured virtual desktops with the manageability, scalability and affordability required for cloud-scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.
Flash Storage:
· Pure Storage: Emulex 16GFC HBAs are certified for use with the Pure Storage FA-series FlashArray from Pure Storage. Emulex HBAs enable faster connectivity for the FA-series, which is part of the ultra-low latency experience that FlashArray users need for enterprise applications, such as virtual desktops infrastructure, databases and analytics platforms, virtualised server environments and cloud environments.
· X-IO Technologies: Emulex 16GFC HBAs are certified for use with the X-IO ISE-2 and Hyper ISE storage system, X-IO’s purpose-built hybrid storage solution for server and desktop virtualisation, cloud computing, and other database management system (DBMS) applications with multitenant workloads generating near-simultaneous I/O requests to shared storage resources. Combined, this optimised solution is a simple and efficient way to rapidly deliver critical information across the enterprise, for the life of the solution.
Data Archiving and Backup
· Quantum: The Quantum LTO6 drives within the Quantum Scalar i500 and i6000 libraries leverage Emulex 16GFC HBAs to deliver increased bandwidth for improved backup and recovery performance. This is important as applications drive increased storage growth, resulting in the need for robust and rapid backup to minimise both data loss and downtime.