Friday, 16 March 2007

Emulex Open Source Driver Now Shipping With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Emulex has wheeled out its Linux driver for Emulex LightPulse Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) as part of the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 distribution. As a result, Emulex LightPulse HBA customers will be able to immediately benefit from the new virtualisation, clustering, and manageability enhancements available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 distribution, Emulex representatives said in a statement.

"Linux is rapidly becoming one of the premier environments for modern data centres and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is an important step with the new capabilities it provides for management and server virtualisation," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex.

According to the companies, key features and support from Emulex for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 include virtualisation support ensuring interoperability with the Xen 3.0 server virtualisation module; clustering support with multipathing compatibility enabled by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Device Mapper module; increased manageability by fully implementing 'sysfs' permitting third party applications to collect HBA subsystem information.