We will be buying new Xeon E5-based servers for our datacenter and were wondering which Fibre Channel host bus adapters we should select for these. The choices are Emulex or QLogic (8Gb FC HBAs). Anybody have any recommendations on which is the better choice?
Thanks in advance.
They are both excellent manufacturers with good support.
QLogic do supply their chips to motherboard manufacturers to mount on a variety of systems which means that their product is wide-spread and not just on their own HBA's. As a result my personal preference would QLogic but there really isn't much in it.