Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?

At a prior job I used Emulex on Solaris without any major issues (other than being new to them).

Here we use Qlogic on the Linux servers that have fibre. In doing an offsite test replicating one of my environments (RHEL3) last year they provided me with Emulex cards but I wasn’t able to get it going the way I needed so finally ended up coming back to my office and getting a couple of spare Qlogics. At the moment I don’t recall exactly what the issue was. It is always possible it was just unfamiliarity and a tight deadline that made me give up the effort.

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 7:50 PM
To: Hadrian Baron
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Emulex cards and RHEL5?

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Hadrian Baron <Hadrian.Baron AT vegas DOT com> wrote:

I too see people shying away from Emulex. I think we will be moving forward with only Qlogic as well.

One of the things we like is that most Unix systems originally liked only Qlogic although that is starting to change. Given that a person wants to standardize, Qlogic makes more sense.

Another added bonus is that you don't have to worry about firmware updates on Qlogic HBAs - just update the drivers and you're done. With Emulex HBAs, you have to update both and try to keep them in synch. Not too big of a deal, but it's 2 sets of data you have to keep track of.

.../Ed

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