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Operating systems and storage products
The fabric rules for M-series switches apply to SANs that include the operating systems and storage
products listed in
Table 66 .
Table 66 M-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support
Storage products Operating systems
• EVA8400/6400
• EVA4400
• EVA8100/8000/6100/6000/4100/4000
• EVA50000/3000
• MSA2000fc G2 (MSA2300fc)/MSA2000fc
• MSA1500/1000
• P2000 G3 FC
• VA7410/7400/7110/7100
• XP24000/20000
• XP12000/10000
• XP1024/128
• XP512/48
• Continuous Access EVA
(see “
HP Continuous Access EVA SAN integration ” on page 254)
• XP Continuous Access
• HP-UX
• OpenVMS
• Tru64 UNIX
• IBM AIX
• Linux
• Microsoft Windows
• Novell NetWare
• Sun Solaris
• VMware ESX
For current operating system and storage system support, see the SPOCK website at http://
www.hp.com/storage/spock . You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access.
See “ Heterogeneous server rules ” on page 185 and the following storage system rules chapters:
• MSA storage system rules , page 235
• EVA storage system rules , page 247
• XP and VA storage system rules , page 263
Fabric rules for M-series switches
Table 67 describes the rules for creating a SAN with M-series switches.
Table 67 M-series fabric rules
Description
Rule
nl
number
A maximum of 24 switches, 1,632 total ports, and 1,500 user ports (firmware 09. xx . xx /08. xx . xx )
are supported in a single fabric (see Table 69 ). 1 Gb/s, 2 Gb/s, and 4 Gb/s switches are
supported in the fabric if you do not exceed the following limits:
• Maximum of 8 Director 2/64 or Director 2/140 switches
• For a fabric that contains the McDATA 4 Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, a
maximum of 24 switches and 400 user ports (firmware 5.2.2.15.00) and 600 user ports
(firmware 6.4.
x . xx . xx )
Eight fully populated Director 2/140 switches is 1,120 ports and does not exceed the 1,500
user-port maximum. Zoning restricts the configuration to 2,048 unique zone members (user ports).
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