Supported Failover Drivers Matrix - Silicon Graphics InfiniteStorage 4000 Series User Manual

Supported
Failover Drivers
Matrix
2012, Windows 2008,
Failover driver MPIO with NetApp
type DSM-ALUA
Storage array Mode Select, or
mode ALUA
Number of 255
volumes supported
per partition
Cluster support? Yes
Controller-drive E2600 and E5400
trays supported
E5500 (Windows
2012 only)
2
The I/O Shipping feature implements support for ALUA. With the I/O Shipping
feature, a storage array can service I/O requests through either controller in a duplex
configuration. However, I/O shipping alone does not guarantee that I/O is routed to
the optimized path. With Windows, Linux and VMWare, your storage array supports
an extension to ALUA to address this problem so that volumes are accessed through
the optimized path unless that path fails. With SANtricity ES 10.86 and subsequent
releases, Windows and Linux DM-MP have I/O shipping enabled by default.
Table 1 Matrix of Supported Failover Drivers by Operating System (OS)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) 5.8
Windows Server
Vista and Hyper-V
Enterprise (SLES)
RDAC
Either Mode Select or
AVT
256
Yes
E2600 and E5400
RHEL 6.3 OS and
and 5.9 OSs and
SUSE Linux
Enterprise 11.2
10.4 OS
DMMP (with E5500)
or RDAC
Mode Select.
256
Yes
E2600, E5400, and
E5500
Solaris 10 U10,
SUSE Linux
Solaris 10 u11
MPxIO (non-TPGS)
Mode Select or
Asymmetric Logical
Unit Access (ALUA)
255
Yes
E2600 and E5400

Supported Failover Drivers Matrix