COSTA MESA, Calif.: Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management has announced that its I/O connectivity solutions, including its LightPulse® Gen 5 Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE)-based solutions provided by Emulex, support the release of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012 R2. In addition, forthcoming Emulex Virtual Network eXceleration™ (VNeX) virtual network offload technology will support Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Network Virtualisation, enabling flexible workload mobility inside the data centre and public or hybrid cloud, reducing network reconfiguration from days to minutes.
“With broad I/O connectivity support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 users, combined with our next generation network virtualisation capabilities, we provide a high performance, highly scalable solution for customers that enables the highest I/O operations per second (IOPS), low latency and improved network throughput,” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “In collaboration with Microsoft and other ecosystem partners, we’re bringing forth a new generation of software defined networking (SDN) solutions that reduce the limitations of legacy data centre networks, enable virtual machine (VM) mobility and reduce complexity.”
Forthcoming Emulex VNeX technology simplifies network scaling by enabling IT managers to adapt or provision the network as VMs start up, shut down, or move, based on the VM’s specific workload requirement, thereby shifting available resources for other workloads on the logical network. Emulex VNeX virtual network offload technology further accelerates Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Network Virtualisation by offloading Network Virtualisation using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE), allowing environments to more efficiently scale to meet the needs of customers while improving network throughput and reducing CPU overhead.