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Sun StorageTek 2500 Series Array Release Notes • April 2007
Disk Drives and Tray Capacity
lists the size, speed, and tray capacity for the supported Serial Attached SCSI
(SAS) disk drives in the Sun StorageTek 2500 Series Array.
Data Host Requirements
This section provides the data host requirements of the 2500 Series Array at the time
this document was produced. These requirements can change; for complete up-to-
date compatibility requirements, contact your Sun sales or support representative.
Note –
The 2540 Array supports Fibre Channel-only connections to the data host.
The information in this section applies only to data hosts with Fibre Channel
connections.
lists the supported host Operating Systems (OSs) and multipathing
availability. HBAs must be ordered separately, from Sun or their respective
manufacturers. Sun HBAs can be ordered from the following site:
/www.sun.com/storagetek/storage_networking/hba/
You must install data host multipathing software on each data host that
communicates with the Sun StorageTek 2540 Array. Follow the instructions in the
Sun StorageTek 2500 Series Array Hardware Installation Guide
to download and install
the software from the Sun Download Center.
You can download HBA drivers and other host software from the Sun Download
Center,
http://www.sun.com/software/download/
. Download operating
system updates from the web site of the operating system company.
TABLE 2
Supported Disk Drives
Drive
Description
ST373455SSUN72G - rev 0791
72-GB 15,000-RPM SAS drives
(3 Gbps); 876 GB per tray
ST314655SSUN146G - rev 0791
146-GB 15,000-RPM SAS drives
(3 Gbps); 1752 GB per tray
ST330055SSUN300G - rev 0791
300-GB 15,000-RPM SAS drives
(3 Gbps); 3600 GB per tray