Zoning; Maximums; Tape Storage; Msa1500 Maximum Configurations - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

the third party is required if HP will provide a single support point of contact that includes the third-party
storage. HP provides technical support for its products and cooperates with the third party's technical
support staff, as needed.
HP provides best-practices recommendations for connecting devices in the SAN (see
"Best practices" on page 417). These rules apply to configurations that include HP SAN storage products
and heterogeneous third-party SAN storage products:
Use zones to isolate HP storage ports from third-party storage ports.
Overlapping zones with multiple storage ports are not supported.
Third-party storage zones are governed by product-specific configuration guidelines (see the third-
party product documentation).
See "Third-party switch
See "Heterogeneous SAN storage system
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coexistence support.

Zoning

These zoning rules apply to a heterogeneous SAN with MSA1500 storage systems:
Zoning is required for all operating systems that access an MSA1500. See
"Heterogeneous server
An MSA1500 storage system can be in multiple operating system zones.
For configurations that support common server access to multiple storage system types, see
"Common server

Maximums

Table 122 lists maximum configurations for the MSA1500.
Table 122 MSA1500 maximum configurations
Storage
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system Operating systems
MSA1500 HP-UX
Novell NetWare
Red Hat Linux
SUSE Linux
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 2003
VMware ESX
1
For the supported operating system versions, see
Contact an HP storage representative for a configuration review to determine support for configurations
that exceed the stated limits.

Tape storage

The following rules apply to tape storage support in a SAN with MSA1500 storage systems:
242 P2000 and MSA storage system rules
support" on page 179 for third-party fabric and switch support.
rules" on page 185.
access" on page 232.
HBAs per
1
server
2
"Heterogeneous server
coexistence" on page 232 for storage system
Active
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controller ports
(targets) per LUNs per
HBA HBA target
8
rules" on page 185.
HBAs
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(initiators) per
active control-
ler port
32 32
Maximum
LUNs per
MSA
32