.Part 2 Fabric Infrastructure Rules HP SAN Design Reference Guide 785352-001
Table 27 B-series Fibre Channel switch fabric rules (continued)
DescriptionRule number
B-series switches and routers supported routing modes with Continuous Access products:6
• HP P9000 (XP) Continuous Access—Supported with port-based routing (aptpolicy = 1) or
exchange-based routing (aptpolicy = 3). See “HP P9000 (XP) Continuous Access FCIP gateway
support” (page 314).
• HP P6000 Continuous Access—Supported with port-based routing (all XCS versions) or exchange-based
routing (XCS 09534000 or later). See “Network requirements for long-distance IP gateways with
XCS 11x, XCS 10x, or XCS 09x” (page 297).
Routing policy—HP recommends that you use the same routing policy in all switches and routers within
a fabric.
EVA4400 Embedded Switch Module, 8 Gb Brocade—Supports connectivity to:7
• Servers
• Storage
Note: The EVA4400 Embedded Switch Module, 8 Gb Brocade supports the same connectivity to HP
storage systems as the 8/8, 8/24, and 8/80 switches.
• Other B-series switches, including the EVA4400 Embedded Switch Module, 8 Gb Brocade
• MPX200 Multifunction Router with iSCSI (see “MPX200 Multifunction Router with iSCSI for P6000/EVA
storage” (page 333)) and EVA and EVA4400 iSCSI Connectivity Option (see “EVA and EVA4400
iSCSI Connectivity Option ” (page 344))
• MPX200 Multifunction Router with FCIP, HP IP Distance Gateway, and B-series 400 MP Router (see
“HP multi-protocol long-distance products” (page 272))
Access Gateway (AG) requirements are:8
• AG mode for Brocade 16Gb/16 SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class requires firmware 7.1.0_blv.
• AG mode for HP SN3000B 16Gb FC Switch requires firmware 7.0.1 (or later).
• AG mode for HP SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch requires firmware 7.0.0a (or later).
• AG mode for Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class and HP StorageWorks SAN
Switch 8/8 or 8/24 (with 24 ports enabled) requires firmware 6.1x (or later).
• AG mode for the SAN Switch 8/40 requires firmware 6.2x (or later).
• AG mode for the 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch requires firmware 6.3.1a (or later).
• AG mode for HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/8 or 4/16 requires firmware 5.3.0 (or later).
• All switches that communicate with Access Gateway switches require firmware 5.1.x (or later). See
“BladeSystem with Brocade Access Gateway mode” (page 170).
In a fabric that contains a StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/8, 4/16, 4/32B, 4/64, SAN Director 2/128,
or SAN Director 4/256, Core switch addressing mode is required on all other switches in that fabric.
See “Core switch addressing mode” (page 120).
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All B-series Fibre Channel switches and routers must use the HP default setting of dlsSet for
non-Continuous Access configurations and HP P6000 Continuous Access configurations running XCS
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version 09534000 (or later) have two protocol options—HP Fibre Channel protocol or HP SCSI Fibre
Channel protocol. The settings for DLS and IOD functionality on the B-series switches should be configured
as follows:
HP Fibre Channel protocol:
• dlsreset (DLS disabled)
• iodset (IOD enabled)
HP SCSI Fibre Channel protocol:
• dlsset (DLS enabled)
• iodreset (IOD disabled)
Note: dlsset is the default policy when aptpolicy 3 (enable exchange-based routing) is enabled
on B-series switches.
For more information, see the HP P6000 Continuous Access Implementation Guide.
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