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3 Dell EMC Storage Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS Series Arrays | DSCM
4.3.4 Network interface cards for boot from SAN and DCB support for iSCSI (PS Series) ...................................... 87
4.3.5 Software iSCSI initiators (PS Series) ............................................................................................................... 90
4.4 SAS Adapters (SC and SCv Series)................................................................................................................. 92
4.5 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Adapters (SC, SCv Series) .................................................................. 100
4.5.1 FCoE converged network and host bus adapters (SC, SCv Series) .............................................................. 100
4.5.2 Software FCoE initiators (SC and SCv Series) .............................................................................................. 105
5 Other support matrices ............................................................................................................................................. 106
5.1 Cisco UCS support ......................................................................................................................................... 106
5.2 Storage virtualization appliances .................................................................................................................... 106
5.3 KMS solutions ................................................................................................................................................. 106
5.4 Data Protection ............................................................................................................................................... 107
A Required Adapter and Server OS Settings .............................................................................................................. 108
A.1 Adapter Settings ............................................................................................................................................. 108
A.1.1 Cisco Fibre Channel Adapters ........................................................................................................................ 108
A.1.2 Emulex Fibre Channel Adapters ..................................................................................................................... 108
A.1.3 QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters (and re-branded adapters based on QLogic) ............................................. 109
A.2 Server OS Settings ......................................................................................................................................... 110
A.2.1 Windows Server 2008r2 ................................................................................................................................. 110
A.2.2 Windows Server 2012 and Later .................................................................................................................... 116
A.2.3 Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, Oracle, Ubuntu) ......................................................................................................... 122
A.2.4 VMware ........................................................................................................................................................... 125
A.2.5 Oracle Solaris ................................................................................................................................................. 126
A.2.6 IBM AIX ........................................................................................................................................................... 127
A.2.7 Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) ......................................................................................................................... 128
A.2.8 HP-UX 11i ....................................................................................................................................................... 129
B SC and SCv Fibre Channel Zoning .......................................................................................................................... 130
C Deprecated devices .................................................................................................................................................. 131
C.1 Host configurations ......................................................................................................................................... 131
C.1.1 SC Series ........................................................................................................................................................ 131
C.1.2 PS Series ........................................................................................................................................................ 141
C.2 Deprecated switches ...................................................................................................................................... 145
C.2.1 SC Series and PS Series ............................................................................................................................... 145
C.2.2 FS Series ........................................................................................................................................................ 147
D Technical support and additional resources ............................................................................................................. 148
D.1 Related documentation ................................................................................................................................... 148
D.2 RPQ process .................................................................................................................................................. 148