New Emulex PCI-X Host Bus Adapters Qualified by EMC as E-Lab Tested for Symmetrix and CLARiiON Enterprise Storage Systems

Business Wire, August 5, 2002

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EMC is First Storage Provider to Qualify the Emulex PCI-X Connectivity

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Emulex Corp. (NYSE:ELX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has qualified the Emulex LightPulse LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs as E-Lab Tested(TM) for use with the company's enterprise storage systems.

EMC's newest qualifications include Emulex HBAs for use with EMC's Symmetrix(R) Enterprise Storage systems in Windows and Linux environments, and EMC CLARiiON Enterprise Storage systems for Windows.

"Emulex's PCI-X host bus adapters offer reliable connectivity and more choices for our customers," said Chuck Hollis, EMC's vice president of markets and products. "EMC has qualified the same HBAs in our E-Labs for both Symmetrix and CLARiiON Enterprise Storage systems, making storage infrastructure simpler and more manageable for our customers."

In addition to the LP9802 and LP982 designation, EMC has also recently qualified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel HBA as E-Lab Tested(TM) for use with its Symmetrix(R) and CLARiiON(R) Enterprise Storage systems in Solaris environments.

EMC's E-Lab Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive functionality and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of all components that make up a multi-vendor information storage network. In EMC's E-Labs, engineers replicate customer environments using 2,600 terabytes of storage across nearly five acres of floor space.

E-Lab Tested means that Emulex HBAs are fully interoperable with EMC information storage systems, enabling customers to deploy heterogeneous storage networks, quickly, reliably and cost-effectively.

The Emulex family of HBAs offers firmware upgradeability to protect customers' investments and a unique driver architecture that enables compatibility of a single driver across Emulex's entire product line, which significantly reduces SAN management complexity while lowering the customer's total cost of ownership.

In addition, the Emulex LP9802 and mid-range LP982 feature the company's new Pegasus ASIC -- a highly integrated, internally developed fifth generation Fibre Channel controller. The Emulex PCI-X HBAs also feature a unique architecture, which delivers scalability and high performance, while continuing Emulex's long tradition of ensuring 100 percent backwards compatibility, simplified management and upgradeability.

The Emulex LP9802 and LP982 also offer an open standards-based management application programming interface (API), which enables customers to seamlessly integrate support for Emulex's driver, as well as develop and implement advanced SAN management services using Emulex HBAs.

"PCI-X server platforms are driving performance and accessibility to the next level," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "EMC's enterprise storage systems demand equally robust PCI-X HBAs, and Emulex remains focused on improving and enhancing its HBA technology with each generation.

"The Emulex LP9802 and LP982 offer unprecedented performance and reliability, which demonstrates the company's commitment to providing its customers with world-class connectivity solutions."

EMC's Symmetrix and CLARiiON Enterprise Storage systems offer superior performance, reliability and manageability. EMC's highly available, scalable information storage platforms are the engines for providing capacity, data integrity and storage-related functionality. Robust software and microcode enable continuous access to all information -- regardless of where it originated or what form it's in.

The Emulex Family of Host Bus Adapters

The Emulex family of HBAs offers high performance, standards-based connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and Internet protocol (IP) storage networking environments. Emulex host bus adapters provide a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise environments that deliver reliability, high bandwidth, server CPU offload, low latency and scalable connectivity.

Emulex HBAs also offer a unique driver architecture that enables compatibility of a single operating system driver across Emulex's entire product line and a firmware-based architecture. These features help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity, while enabling a seamless migration path to next-generation technologies.

For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex Web site and download the IDC whitepaper titled, "Measuring the HBA's Role in SAN Management."

The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel HBAs offers full fabric support, high-data integrity, full-duplex operation, data buffering for up to 100km of cabling and support for all Fibre Channel topologies.

The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel products includes the 2Gb/s LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs, the LP9002L PCI HBAs, the LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.