Operating Systems And Storage Products; Fabric Rules For M-Series Switches; M-Series Fabric Rules; M-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 M-series switches apply to SANs that include the operating systems and storage
products listed in
Table 66 M-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support
Operating systems
HP-UX
OpenVMS
Tru64 UNIX
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

Fabric rules for M-series switches

Table 67 describes the rules for creating a SAN with M-series switches.
Table 67 M-series fabric rules
Rule
nl
number
1 A maximum of 24 switches, 1,632 total ports, and 1,500 user ports (firmware 09.xx.xx/08.xx.xx)
are supported in a single fabric (see
supported in the fabric if you do not exceed the following limits:
Eight fully populated Director 2/140 switches is 1,120 ports and does not exceed the 1,500
user-port maximum. Zoning restricts the configuration to 2,048 unique zone members (user ports).
162 M-series switches and fabric rules
Table 66.
EVA8400/6400
EVA4400
EVA8100/8000/6100/6000/4100/4000
EVA50000/3000
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
Maximum of 8 Director 2/64 or Director 2/140 switches
For a fabric that contains the McDATA 4 Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem, a
maximum of 24 switches and 400 user ports (firmware 5.2.2.15.00) and 600 user ports
(firmware 6.4.x.xx.xx)
Storage products
integration" on page 254)
Description
Table 69). 1 Gb/s, 2 Gb/s, and 4 Gb/s switches are
http://