Emulex announced that its PCI Express I/O Controller (IOC) 3532 has been selected to support the new HP multi-protocol Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for HP Integrity servers. The Emulex IOC 3532 provides HP Integrity systems with a wide range of SAN connectivity solutions for HP-UX 11i and OpenVMS operating environments.

"HP has selected the Emulex PCI Express IOC technology to support its new line of multi-protocol HBAs, reinforcing our leadership in providing high-performance SAN connectivity solutions for enterprise data centers," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "The Emulex IOC 3532 now supports an even broader range of HP Integrity servers, spanning the entry-class, mid-range and Superdome server lines, providing customers with the most scalable SAN connectivity available."

HP Integrity servers can attach to networked storage through Emulex SAN connectivity solutions and offer customers mission-critical workload consolidation and virtualization capabilities. The new HP multi-protocol HBAs (HP product numbers: AD221A, AD222A and AD393A) have both PCI Express Fibre Channel and Ethernet ports to expand the connectivity options for HP customers. These new Emulex-based connectivity solutions are available in single and dual-port configurations over a choice of fiber or copper and are supported by HP-UX l1i v3 and OpenVMS operating environments.

"Together with our IHV partners, we're expanding the flexibility of our customers' server environments by incorporating support for a diverse set of high-performance technologies to our growing line of HP Integrity servers," said Loraine Bartlett, director of Integrity server marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. "The SAN connectivity options and virtualization capabilities offered by the Emulex IOC 3532 further strengthen our ability to support business-critical workloads with our Integrity line of servers."

Emulex HBA solutions are supported by a wide variety of HP servers, including HP Integrity and HP9000 servers to Superdome, and they support an entire range of operating environments including HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, Integrity Windows and Linux, and Tru64 UNIX. Emulex solutions include the IOC 3532 technology, as well as Emulex's LightPulse 4Gb/s LPe11002 dual channel and LPe1150 single channel Fibre Channel PCI Express HBAs.