Emulex Joins The VMware Community Source Program

Friday, 03 March 2006 by Michel Roth

Emulex announced that Emulex has formalized participation in the VMware Community Source program, an innovative collaborative development effort that provides open technology access to the source code and APIs for VMware ESX Server. The program combines the best elements of open source and enterprise development allowing partners to boost the level of functionality and slash the time to market of virtualization solutions for their customers. Emulex will help drive standardization of SAN connectivity solutions for server virtualization environments.

As part of its participation, Emulex is contributing its LightPulse(R) Virtual HBA API specification, based on N-port ID Virtualization (NPIV), which enhances the overall functionality of the SAN in server virtualization environments. Emulex, in cooperation with other members of the VMware Community source program, will be a key participant in the development of a virtual HBA API. This API will enable HBAs to connect virtual machines to SANs improving fabric-based quality of service mapping to virtual machines, increasing supportability of large VMware VMotion clusters, and providing more transparent support of standard zoning tools.

Read the full press release here.