C-Series Fibre Channel Switches For San-Os - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

dating switch firmware, you can use two successive NX-OS/SAN-OS/FabricWare versions tem-
porarily. Do not enable new switch features until the upgrade is complete.
Follow the fabric rules. (See
For the latest information on supported C-series Fibre Channel switches and firmware versions, see
the HP SAN Infrastructure website:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure.html
Table 41 C-series Fibre Channel switches for SAN-OS
Switch
MDS 9506 Multilayer Director
MDS 9509 Multilayer Director
MDS 9513 Multilayer Director
MDS 9222i Multiservice Fabric
MDS 9124 Fabric
MDS 9134 Fabric
MDS 9124e 12-Port Fabric Switch
for HP c-Class BladeSystem
MDS 9124e 24-Port Fabric Switch
for HP c-Class BladeSystem
NOTE:
MDS 9509 requires Supervisor-2 Modules to use the maximum port count.
138 C-series switches and fabric rules
"Fibre Channel switch fabric
Firmware version
SAN-OS 3.3(4a), 3.3(4), 3.3(3),
3.3(2), 3.3(1c), 3.3(1a), 3.2(3),
3.2(2c), 3.2(1a), 3.1(3a), 3.1(3),
3.1(2a)
rules" on page 146.)
Maximum number of Fibre
nl
Channel ports
192
336
528
66
24
32 at 4 Gb/s
2 at 10 Gb/s
8 internal, 4 external
16 internal, 8 external