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

Servers, operating systems, and storage products
The fabric rules for H-series switches apply to SANs that include the servers, operating systems,
and storage products listed in Table 53 (page 145).
Table 53 H-series switches servers, operating systems, and storage system support
Storage productsOperating systemsServers
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•
•
EVA8400/6400
Microsoft Windows
HP ProLiant ML-Series and DL-Series
servers
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•
EVA4400
VMware ESX
• HP Integrity servers
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•
MSA2000fc G2
(MSA2300fc)/MSA2000fc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• HP BladeSystem c-Class ProLiant Server
Blades
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
• HP StoreVirtual 4000 FC
• HP-UX
• HP BladeSystem c-Class Integrity
Server Blades
• P6550/P6500/P6350/P6300 EVA
• Citrix Xen Enterprise
• P9500
• Integrated Citrix XenServer
• P2000 G3 FC MSA
• Apple Mac OS X
• XP24000/20000, XP12000/10000
• Oracle Linux
• 3PAR StoreServ 10000/7000
• Solaris
• 3PAR F-Class T-Class
• 3PAR Remote Copy
• P6000 Continuous Access
1
• EBS products: See the EBS compatibility
matrix at http://www.hp.com/go/ebs.
1
P6000 Continuous Access is supported with EVA4400/6400/8400 and firmware XCS version 09534000, and with P6350/P6550
and firmware XCS version 11001000, P6300/P6500, EVA4400/6400/8400 and firmware XCS version10000000 and
10001000, with the data replication protocol option set for "HP SCSI FC Compliant Data Replication Protocol," and with switch
firmware 8.0.4.04.00 and 8.0.14.03.00.
For current storage system support and firmware, see the SPOCK website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. You must sign
up for an HP Passport to enable access.
For more configuration information, see the HP P6000 Continuous Access Implementation Guide.
The operating systems listed in Table 53 (page 145) may not be supported with every storage system
listed. For current operating system and storage system support, see the SPOCK website at http://
www.hp.com/storage/spock. You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access.
See “Heterogeneous server rules” (page 165) and the following chapters:
• “MSA storage system rules” (page 211)
• “P6000/EVA storage system rules” (page 221)
To support SCM and other HP software, the server running the SCM management software (the
management station) must meet the following minimum requirements:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64/x86 with Service Pack 2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64/x86
Fabric rules for H-series switches
Table 54 (page 145) describes the rules for creating a SAN with H-series switches.
Table 54 H-series switches fabric rules
Description
Rule
number
Supports up to 30 switches with up to 600 total 8 Gb/s ports, up to 120 10 Gb/20 Gb stacking ports,
and up to 512 user ports in a fabric.
1
Supports a maximum of 7 switch hops (8 switches) between any 2 communicating devices.2
Fabric rules 145