Quoting from Emulex Press Release:
Emulex LightPulse HBAs leverage seven generations of advanced, field-proven technology, providing customers with the highest quality SAN connectivity solutions that the world's leading enterprises have come to rely upon. With a unique firmware upgradeable architecture, common driver model and centralized management tools for simplified installation and deployment, Emulex HBAs are simply "Generations Ahead" of competing solutions. The Emulex suite of Fibre Channel HBAs offers the following industry-leading features and benefits:
- Superior Quality and Reliability - Field-proven, single-chip design with a combination of parity and other advanced error checking methods to validate the integrity of data blocks.
- Most Efficient Installation and Management - Unique tools designed to automate installation and provide local and remote HBA configuration and management. The Emulex architecture allows complete independence of device drivers from HBA hardware and firmware, which translates into time- and cost-savings by eliminating the need to reboot during most configuration changes and compatibility across HBA generations.
- Maximum SAN Performance - Experience superior full-duplex data throughput and I/O processing, ideal for real-world application environments.
- Fastest Diagnosis and Recovery - Ensures fast and efficient SAN troubleshooting with detailed event logging and tracing.
- Broadest Enterprise Deployments - With the largest installed base of HBAs, Emulex SAN connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest, mission-critical enterprises.
Read the entire press release, here.