Emulex plans: Adapters will be FCoE and Encrypted!
By Tarry Singh at 18 February, 2009, 9:11 am
Emulex has announced a second generation Ethernet Fibre Channel adapter and added encryption to its Fibre Channel adapter range using RSA technology.
Emulex supplies Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) with virtualisation capabilities so that physical servers can access Fibre Channel SANs, and virtual machines share their physical server host’s HBA. It is supporting the layering of the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet (FCoE) and has already produced a converged network adapter (CNA) that combines Ethernet NIC and HBA functionality.
It describes the OneConneX, its second generation CNA, as a universal CNA and positions it for use in a data centre world currently using up to three networks: Ethernet; InfiniBand; and Fibre Channel. Emulex believes that Ethernet has the installed base and market momentum to become the dominant data centre networking fabric, in its 10gigE form, and that OneConneX is ‘universal’ in that it converges Fibre Channel onto Ethernet. There is no support for InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) functionality and no intention of providing it.
FCoE takeup depends upon there being a loss-less and reliably low latency Ethernet connection to a SAN. This will depend upon the formal standardisation of Data Centre Ethernet, expected in early 2010. That means OneConneX will mostly be used in trial FCoE installations for now.
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