QLogic Release Enterprise Linux Virtualisation Solution

By Greg McNevin

March 24, 2008: Storage networking specialist QLogic has become the first HBA vendor to ship N_Port ID Virtualisation (NPIV) solutions for enterprise Linux.

The company says that those with Enterprise Linux deployed can now get NPIV-capable Fibre Channel HBAs for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

SP1 is the latest Linux platform from Novell, and features significant enhancements in the realms of virtualisation, high performance computing, security, interoperability and system management.

QLogic says its 2400 series HBAs provide hardware-assist features that enable dynamic provisioning and flexible usage of HBA resources, and can help IT managers to extend SAN best practices into virtualised data centres.

“QLogic has been a long time collaborator in developing virtualisation management solutions in the data centre,” said Alan Murray, vice president of Product Management for Systems and Resource Management at Novell.

“With today's announcement, enterprises can use ZENworks Orchestrator and QLogic NPIV to manage virtual ports on our SUSE Linux Enterprise Server platform, and use both physical and virtual resources more efficiently.”

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