8x00 Enterprise Virtual Array release notes (XCS 6.110) (5697-7469, April 2008)

Supported Fibre Channel switches

For complete information on which Fibre Channel switches are suppor ted on XCS 6.100 or later, see the

HP StorageWork

s SAN design reference guide, which can be downloaded from the following website:

ttp://www.hp

.com/support/manuals

Click Storage Ne tworking under Storage, and then select HP StorageWorks SAN under HP StorageWorks

SAN Solutions.

Supported disks

Table 4 lists the supported Fibre Channel disks.

NOTE:

• The information in this table is current as of the date this document was published.

• T o maintain your storage system at the most curr ent conﬁguration, HP recommends that all disk

drives use the recommended version of ﬁrmware.

• A minimum of eight disks is required to create a disk group. Additional disks may be added up

to the established disk group limits.

• A disk group cannot contain both online (high performance) disks and FATA disks. It must c ontain

only one type of d isk.

Using FATA disk drive s

FATA drives are designed for lower duty cycle applications such as near online data replication for

backup. These drives should not be used as a replacement for EVA's high performance, standard dut y

cycle, Fibre Channel drives. Doing so could shor ten the life of the drive. Download the following

document for m ore information on FATA drives, their uses and beneﬁts:

ttp://h71028.www 7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/5982 -7353EN.pdf

NOTE:

FATA disk drives should not be used for the enhanced asynchronous replication write history log, which is

in constant use and is not a low duty cycle environment.

Table 4 Supported disks

Fibre Channel disk

HP model displayed in

HP Command View EVA

Minimum supported

ﬁrmware version

Recommended

ﬁrmware version

High-performance disks

BD03654499

3BE9 3BE9

BD03655B28 HP05 HP0 7

BD03656ABA

HP09

HP0A

36 GB, 10K RP M

BD03659532 HP02

HP04