Fibre Channel Switch Fabric Rules; Using C-Series Fibre Channel Switches As Edge Switches - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

Table 48 describes the use of C-series Fibre Channel switches as edge switches.
Table 48 Using C-series Fibre Channel switches as edge switches
Model
MDS 9120 Fabric
MDS 9140 Fabric
MDS 9124 Fabric
MDS 9134 Fabric
MDS 9124e Fabric
MDS
9216/9216A/9216i
Multilayer Fabric
MDS 9222i Multiservice
Fabric
MDS 9506 Multilayer
nl
Director
MDS 9509 Multilayer
nl
Director
MDS 9513 Multilayer
nl
Director
MDS 9020

Fibre Channel switch fabric rules

This section describes the fabric rules for C-series Fibre Channel switches and other factors you should
consider when building C-series fabrics.
146 C-series switches and fabric rules
1 48 total ports 49 224 total ports
Excellent
Excellent (select modules to optimize performance or user port count)
Excellent (select modules to optimize performance or user port count)
Excellent (select modules to optimize performance or user port count)
225 512 total ports
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
Very good
Excellent