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Solution Type: Virtualization - Infrastructure
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Enabling the Virtualized Data Center with Emulex |
| Server Virtualization & Emulex Products
Server virtualization is the virtualization technology that has garnered the most interest and customer attention. In fact, it is becoming one of the most rapidly adopted data center technologies in recent memory. Vendors like VMware and Microsoft, the Xen open source virtualization initiative, and almost every major Unix vendor are bringing virtualization technology to the server platform. Intel and AMD have announced virtualization-assist features for their processors. Server virtualization provides the ability to deploy a discrete number of full-featured application environments called "virtual machines" or "guests", on a single, or a few, hardware platforms.
Emulex products sit at the nexus of the virtualization infrastructure. Emulex LightPulse® Virtual HBA technology contains key building blocks that enable customers to fully realize the benefits of server virtualization deployed in a SAN environment.
Server virtualization provides benefits that meet important user needs:
Server consolidation yielding a dramatic increase in server hardware utilization. Users report going from 15-20% up to 75 to 80% usage, with a proportional increase in server return on investment and reduction in management and maintenance overhead.
Faster, flexible provisioning for new applications, as well as dynamic resizing of servers for growing applications.
Cost effective test bed deployment of new applications
Easier workload balancing, incident resumption and disaster recovery, as “virtual machines” are more readily portable to alternate hardware resources, and offer tools to automate these operations.
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Emulex HBAs: Enabling SAN Attachment for BladeCenters
The Emulex LP1105-BC (IBM PN 39Y9186) provides 4Gb/s dual port Fibre Channel connectivity for each blade in the BladeCenter chassis.
Customers demanding the utmost in RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) traditionally choose to deploy a SAN over other storage architectures. This requires a very high speed host bus adapter (HBA) to connect each blade to the SAN.
While PCIe and PCI-X solutions exist for rack servers - the unique design and architecture of the BladeCenter requires a custom mezzanine card approach for I/O connectivity. Emulex has developed a mezzanine form factor HBA to meet the design specs of the IBM BladeCenter. Each blade can support two 4Gb/s Fibre Channel ports for high bandwidth and high availability. Emulex is highly respected by end customers who deploy BladeCenters, and is known as the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity.
The solution consists of the following Emulex components:
- Emulex LP1105-BC 4Gb/s dual port Fibre Channel HBA
- Emulex AutoPilot InstallerT - simplifies and accelerates the HBA installation process.
- Emulex HBAnywareT - provides centralized, in-depth management of HBAs anywhere in the SAN (including seamless integrated with IBM Director).
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