EMC SELECT Third-Party Products
Add more value with these EMC-qualified productsHost Bus Adapters (HBAs), Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), and Switches
Leverage essential networked storage, connect EMC storage arrays to EMC-tested products, and deploy robust storage area network (SAN) infrastructures with proven best practices.
ATTO
ATTO Celerity 16Gb/s, 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), available in quad-, dual-, and single-port configurations, support the most demanding performance requirements in a wide range of applications.
Qualified by EMC, ATTOs Fibre Channel HBAs enable Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows 7/Vista/XP hosts to connect directly to EMC's enterprise-class storage.
With ATTO, customers can:
- Increase productivity—Enjoy shared storage among work stations in a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN).
- Support high-performance workloads—Aggregate bandwidth over multiple Fibre Channel links.
- Reduce downtime—Gain multiple, redundant connections to storage.
- Achieve ease of use—Use ATTO configuration tool for easy configuration, monitoring, management, and troubleshooting.
| EMC Interoperability Environment | |
|---|---|
| ATTO FC-164E, 162E, 161E, 84EN, 82EN, 81EN, 44ES, 42ES, 41ES | EMC Celerra products, EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix VMAX products, VNX and VNXe Products |
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Brocade
Brocade offers a full line of flexible and efficient Ethernet switches through EMC Select. They Include:
- FCX switches, which provide high-performance top-of-rack connectivity
- ServerIron ADX switches, which provide robust Layer 4 through 7 switching
- TurboIron 24X switch, which is a compact, ultra low latency, highly available 24 port 10 GbE product
Brocade also offers Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) that are interoperable with the vast majority of fibre channl, ethernet, and FcoE ports. They are designed to meet the growing connectivity, virtualization, and operating efficiency needs of enterprise data centers. Brocade's revolutionary 1860 Fabric Adapter can be used as either a 16 Gbps Fibre Channel HBA, or a 10 Gbps CNA, making it the most flexible adapter available today.
| EMC Interoperability Environment | |
|---|---|
| Brocade 400 Series | EMC Celerra FileMover, EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix products |
| Brocade 800 Series | EMC Celerra FileMover, EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix products |
| Brocade 1010 and 1020 CNA | EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix products |
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Emulex
Emulex products include:
- LightPulse® Fibre Channel HBA—4 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s, and 16 Gb/s HBAs are installed in the server to provide Fibre Channel connectivity from the server to the storage area network (SAN). They are available in single-, dual-, and quad-channel options and are tested and qualified by EMC. Emulex HBAs are supported by a wide range of operating system environments including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, VMware, and Linux.
| EMC Interoperability Environment | |
|---|---|
| LightPulse HBAs | EMC Celerra products, EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Ionix ControlCenter products, EMC PowerPath products, EMC Symmetrix products, VMware products |
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QLogic
Specializing in high-performance networking—adapters, switches, and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips—QLogic's product portfolio enables strategic solutions for customers' critical data, storage, and server networking needs worldwide.
QLogic offers:
- QLogic host bus adapters — Choose Fibre Channel or iSCSI implementations including single- and dual-port, 4Gb, 8Gb, and 16Gb Fibre Channel and dual-port, 1-Gb iSCSI.
- Fibre Channel stackable switches — Prepare your infrastructure for tomorrow's requirements without paying for more today.
- FCoE converged network adapters (CNAs) — Consolidate data networking of a network interface card (NIC) with storage networking of a Fibre Channel HBA onto a single 10-GbE Ethernet adapter. NIC Partitioning and QoS tools enable further infrastructure consolidation while maintaining best practices for virtualized environments.
- QLogic storage routers — Provide multiprotocol routing, SAN-over-wide area network (WAN) extension, and data migration.
| EMC Interoperability Environment | |
|---|---|
| FC adapters | EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix products |
| FCoE converged network Adapters | EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix products |
| Intelligent storage routers | EMC CLARiiON products, EMC MirrorView, EMC SAN Copy |
| iSCSI adapters | EMC Celerra products, EMC CLARiiON products, CLARiiON iSCSI-capable arrays, EMC Connectrix products, EMC Symmetrix products |
| SANbox 5000 Series FC stackable switches | EMC CLARiiON products, EMC Symmetrix products |