Operating Systems And Storage Products; B-Series Fibre Channel Switch And Fabric Rules; B-Series Fibre Channel Switch Operating System And Storage System Support - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

Operating systems and storage products

The fabric rules for B-series switches and MP Routers apply to SANs that include the operating systems
and storage products listed in
Table 26 B-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support
Operating systems
HP-UX
OpenVMS
Tru64 UNIX
Apple Mac OS X
IBM AIX
Linux
Microsoft Windows
Novell NetWare
Sun Solaris
VMware ESX
For current operating system and storage system support, see the SPOCK website at
www.hp.com/storage/spock. You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access.
See "Heterogeneous server
MSA storage system
EVA storage system
XP and VA storage system

B-series Fibre Channel switch and fabric rules

The following fabric rules apply to all B-series Fibre Channel SANs. They also apply, in general, to
HP XP Continuous Access and HP Continuous Access EVA configurations. However, additional rules
apply to HP Continuous Access implementations. See the HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA
Planning Guide for detailed information.
Table 26.
EVA8400/6400
EVA4400/4400 (embedded switch)
EVA8100/8000/6100/6000/4100/4000
EVA5000/3000
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
XP Continuous Access
rules" on page 185 and the following storage system rules chapters:
rules, page 235
rules, page 247
rules, page 263
Storage products
integration" on page 254)
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