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Emulex – Evolution of the HBA

By Chris M Evans On November 4, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Opinion, Storage

At SNW Europe this week I took some time to talk to Emulex about their OneCommand product. It’s been upgraded to version 2.0, which will be the subject of a post for another day, once I’ve had a chance to install and review it.

I also discussed the core of Emulex’s business, namely HBAs (Host [...]

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Cloud Computing: Block-Based Storage

By Chris M Evans On October 8, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Cloud, GestaltIT

A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could prove tricky and why without an [...]

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Who needs FCoE anyway?

By Chris M Evans On October 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I’ve been working on getting my “home SAN” into a usable configuration over the last few weeks. One hassle has been VMware (and I won’t even mention Hyper-V again) and the support for fibre channel.

I guess thinking logically about it, VMware can’t support every type of HBA out there and the line has [...]

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