Emulex has developed a Virtual Fabric Adapter based on its
OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture
IBM's BladeCenter HS22 blade server family.
The
Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter for IBM BladeCenter offers two
physical 10Gb/s Ethernet ports, supporting 1Gb/s or 10Gb/s that can
be configured into up to eight virtual ports with bandwidth
allocation in 100Mb/s increments. The product can be upgraded to
support Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), delivering a future
proof connectivity solution for IBM BladeCenter that enables
multiple virtual NIC and FCoE ports on the same adapter.
The Emulex OneConnect UCNA platform provides hardware
acceleration on a single chip for the major protocols
includingTCP/IP, TOE, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet
(FCoE). Emulex said OneConnect UCNA supports both IP and storage
networking demands.
