Fibre Channel Switches; Operating System Software And Iscsi Initiator Support; C-Series Management Software; Hp Network Teaming - Cisco AJ732A - MDS 9134 Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Fibre Channel switches

The C-Series IP Storage Services Modules (IPS-4, IPS-8), and Multi–protocol Services Module (14/2)
are supported with the following HP C-Series Product Line switches:
• MDS 9216, MDS 9216A, MDS 9216i Multilayer Fabric Switches
• MDS 9506, MDS 9509, MDS 9513 Multilayer Director Switches
NOTE:
The MDS 9216i switch contains two embedded IP ports.

Operating system software and iSCSI Initiator support

Refer to the HP StorageWorks C-Series iSCSI support tables located at:
http://www.hp.com/support/manuals
In the Storage section, select the SAN Infrastructure link. Go to the C-Series section and select the link for
the Cisco MDS9216i Multilayer Fabric Switch.

C-Series management software

The following management software is supported:
• Cisco Fabric Manager
• Cisco Device Manager
• CLI

HP network teaming

HP NIC teaming is supported with the Windows operating system only.

Network interface controllers (NIC)

All NICs supported by HP are supported for this product. For optimal performance, HP recommends
that Gigabit Ethernet NICs be used.

Multi-pathing

Multi-pathing is supported on EVA4000/6000/8000 only in a Windows environment using the Microsoft
Multipath I/O driver (MPIO), supported with iSCSI. Without multi-path capabilities, the iSCSI initiator can
only access one path of the storage controllers, which disables controller failover protection.
C-Series iSCSI 13