H-Series Switches; B-Series Switches; H-Series Switch And Port Topology Maximums; B-Series Switch And Port Topology Maximums - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

H-series switches

Table 4 lists the H-series switch and port maximums for specific topologies.
For large fabrics, the number of user ports is determined by use of SN6000 Fibre Channel Switches
and making maximum use of their dedicated 10Gb/20Gb stacking port ISLs, which leaves more of
the 8 Gb ports available for device connections.
Table 4 H-series switch and port topology maximums
SAN topology
Single-switch fabric
Cascaded fabric
Meshed fabric
Ring fabric
Ring fabric with satellite
switches
Core-edge fabric

B-series switches

Table 5 lists the B-series switch and port maximums for specific fabric topologies.
Table 5 B-series switch and port topology maximums
SAN topology
Single-switch fabric
Cascaded fabric
Meshed fabric
Ring fabric
Ring fabric with satellite
switches
Core-edge fabric
Number of switches
1
30
30
15
30
30
Number of Total number of
switches
1
56
56
15
56
56
Total number of ports
20
600
600
300
600
600
ports Number of user ports
384
2,560
2,560
2,560
2,560
2,560
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Number of user ports
20
460
512
264
462
462
384
2,300
2,300
2,300
1,212
2,300
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