QLogic 8Gb FC Adapters Certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

QLogic Corp. announced certification of its 2500 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel host bus adapters with the newly announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, which provides improved virtualization capabilities based on Xen Hypervisor.

The latest offering from Red Hat includes scalability enhancements with support for 64 CPUs and 512GB of memory, enabling customers to implement larger scale consolidation on one physical server. All QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters, which now deliver even more robust security, performance, management, and power savings capabilities for newer processors, are fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.
 
“As a result of our continued collaboration with Red Hat, Enterprise Linux customers can now implement QLogic 8Gb adapters with complete confidence and take full advantage of the enhanced virtualisation, security and management features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2,” said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. “QLogic 8Gb Fibre Channel adapters with superior I/O performance are able to scale across a larger number of virtual machines, empowering IT managers in Global 2000 corporations to realise lower datacentre costs through increased server consolidation.”