Emulex 8GB HBA Product Evaluation

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Emulex HBA product evaluation
Emulex provides network convergence solution that
connect server, storage of the network within the
data center. It includes the fibre channel host
bus adapter, converged network adapter and
embedded storage switches. Products sold by OEM
partners like Cisco, Dell, Hitachi data system,
HP, IBM etc. Its products are Host Bus Adapter,
Network Adapter, Control drivers, iSCSI adapter,

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Introduction
Emulex is situated Costa mesa california, it is
founded in the 1979 and now employs over 900
people in the worldwide. We evaluate some points
of fibre channel host bus adapter with other
HBAs. We includes some points like customer
availability, model varity, operation environment
support, installation support, multi pathing
support, HBA management and support.
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Evaluation summary
Our general finding that HBA product family is
more rich of features and wider breadth of
support for server hardware, operating syatem and
path management. Overall the installation process
HBA is very much easier for emulex. This
management software is very much efficient in the
use if large environment. Current emulex product
family is mature, robust and well suited for
large to small fibre channel.
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Customer Availability
A common consideration is the availability to the
customer. Customer can obtain through varity of
sales channel. It is bundle with either server
vendor or storage vendor. It is also widely
available in many retail channel.
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Model variety
Server that use that use fibre channel HBA, have
a variety of bus types. These are PCI, PCI-X 1.0,
PCI-X 2.0, PCI Express and Sbus. In the factor
required tower and rack server the blade server
often have their own special factor that requires
some specialized HBA. It offer wide variety of
bus type. HBA has two model 410 and 420 these
work with a PCI express x4 or x8. The new emulex
light pulse HBA support 4Gbps.
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Operating environment
support
Fiber channel HBA are deployed in a number of
operating environment and a wide section of
certified solution are required. It requires
drivers for the operating system and it support
software application graphical user interface
(GUI) and command line versions.
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Multipathing Support
Multipathing is arranged in many fibre channel
storage environment in order to give more than
between server and storage. It allows failover in
the event by balancing across multiple path. HBA
is a part of comlete multipathing solution and
has a certified to work in various multipahing
system. Like micrisoft MIPO is certified for
various HBA. It requires additional technology
for to complete multipathing solution. Today it
is certified to work in all major multipathing
solutions like storage and file system.
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Installation of HBA
Emulex provides a single package Autopilot
Installer that install HBA driver and management
software. User can install in just a two minutes
and it does not required reboots. Administrator
in a large environment with many server emulex
approach is simpler and easier.
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HBA management
Clicking on the left side of manu structure.
Each product shows several tab function with
daily and periodic functions. It allow firmware
update to anywhere. In the visible fabric it can
use that firmware. For the firmware update no
reboots is required. Event log is uaeful in
managing of large environment. HBAs are
performed through backup, restore. Firmware BIOS
and Fcode can be updated for one or more
adapters. There is no reboots. No event log
entries are noted.
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HBA performance graph
Vendor makes various performance claims. A series
of iometer test ware spanning wide renge of block
size specially for reading and writing. HP server
is connected to texas memory system through 4100
fibre channel switch. Here we include the MBPS
graph.
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Reliability and support
Emulex has a proven customer care center with
great deal of experience. In the quaterly finance
report JAN 24 2008 emulex claimed they host more
than five million servers. They currently claims
that more than ten million hours of field mean
between failures. Examples are Emulex 8GB HBA ,
Emulex LPe11002 HBA.
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Contact Us
188-M Technology Drive Irvine CA 92618 Tel
[phone] Fax [phone] http//www.sho
pricom.com To know about Emulex 8GB HBA you
can visit http//www.shopricom.com/46M6140
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