.Part 2 Fabric Infrastructure Rules HP SAN Design Reference Guide 785352-001

Table 47 C-series Fibre Channel switch fabric rules (continued)
DescriptionRule number
HP SN8500C 8-Slot 16Gb FC Director Switch, supports up to 384 ports over eight modular slots (eight
48-port modules
1
).
5
Maximum of seven switch hops (eight switches) between any two communicating devices6
Maximum of 80 VSANs per fabric
2
7
Maximum of 4,000 IVR shared devices per routed fabric
3
8
Note: IVR is not supported on the MDS 9124, MDS 9124e, and MDS 9134.
Maximum of 2,000 IVR zones per routed fabric
3
9
Persistent FCID mode (default setting) is required on all C-series Fibre Channel switches in fabrics or
VSANs that include HP-UX or IBM AIX servers when implementing port-based fabric zoning.
10
NPV mode with Cisco MDS 9124e for HP c-Class BladeSystem, MDS 9124, and MDS 9134 require
SAN-OS 3.2(1a) (or later). NPV mode supports interoperability with B-series firmware 5.3.0, 5.3.0b,
and 6.1.0d. See “BladeSystem with Cisco N_Port Virtualization mode” (page 172).
11
FCIP is supported with IPsec data encryption using the 18/4 Multiservice Module, 14/2 Multiprotocol
Services Module, MDS 9216i, and MDS 9222i. IPsec is supported with HP P6000 Continuous Access
and HP P9000 (XP) Continuous Access.
12
Maximum of 114 FLOGIs or F Disc per port group for the 9200, 9500, and SN8000C series switches.
Maximum of 89 FLOGIs or F Disc per port for the 9100 series switches.
13
Within a fabric, assign a unique domain number (domain ID) and a unique WWN to each switch. All
switch configuration parameters for the same switch models must be the same.
14
Do not configure any switch with a domain ID of 8, which is reserved for HP-UX.
1
For information about the 48-port module, see “C-series Fibre Channel switches” (page 123).
2
MDS 9124, MDS 9124e, and MDS 9134 support a maximum of 16 VSANs.
3
MDS NX-OS release 5.0(x) configuration limits
NOTE: Not all topologies can support the maximum port or switch count.
ISL maximums
You can use all full-rate ports on all C-series Fibre Channel switches for ISLs, with a maximum of
one half of the total ISL port count configured to the same destination switch. Table 48 (page 137)
lists the ISL maximums for switches with higher port counts.
Table 48 ISL maximums
Number of ports allowed as ISLs
Total number of
available user portsSwitch
48 at 16 Gb/s48HP SN8500C 48-port16Gb FC Module
48 at 8 Gb/s48SN6000C
32 at 8 Gb/s, 24 at 10Gb/s32
HP SN8000C 8Gb 32-Port Advanced Fibre
Channel Module
48 at 8 Gb/s, 24 at 10Gb/s48
HP SN8000C 8Gb 48-Port Advanced Fibre
Channel Module
48 at 1 Gb/s48
MDS 9xxx 48-port 8 Gb/s Host-Optimized
Fibre Channel Switching Module
48 at 2 Gb/s48
MDS 95xx 48-port 8 Gb/s Performance Fibre
Channel Switching Module
Fibre Channel switch fabric rules 137