Network Requirements For Long-Distance Ip Gateways And B-Series Switches With Vcs - HP StorageWorks 4000/6000/8000 - Enterprise Virtual Arrays Reference Manual

Table 162 describes the network bandwidth requirements and IP gateway support for VCS 4.x with B-series
switches.
Table 162 Network requirements for long-distance IP gateways and B-series switches with VCS 4.x
Gateway pair
HP IP Distance
Gateway
nl
(mpx110)
MPX200 Multifunction
Router
B-series 1606 See
Extension SAN Switch
DC Dir Switch MP
Extension Blade
B-series 400 MP See
Router,
MP Router Blade
B-series MP Router See
1
Continuous Access EVA requires a minimum of 2 Mb/s of IP bandwidth per path, or 4 Mb/s for two paths.
2
See Table 131 for the maximum number of DR groups supported based on maximum IP bandwidth.
3
For current support, see the SPOCK website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access.
Minimum
nl
supported
Dual IP link maximum latency
nl
firmware
nl
version
3 At least 2 Mb/s for 1 DR group
See note.
Recommended: At least 5 Mb/s for 1 to 5 DR
groups
Table 19.
Table 20.
Table 21. At least 2 Mb/s for 1 DR group
Recommended: At least 5 Mb/s for 1 to 5 DR
groups
Minimum IP bandwidth
and maximum DR groups
0 to 100 ms one-way
Legacy IP gateways
SAN Design Reference Guide
1,
nl
2
Single or shared IP link maximum
latency
0 to 100 ms one-way
At least 4 Mb/s for 1 DR group
Recommended: At least 10 Mb/s for
1 to 5 DR groups
At least 4 Mb/s for 1 DR group
Recommended: At least 10 Mb/s for
1 to 5 DR groups
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