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

type. Unless otherwise specified, the distances specified apply to both switch-to-switch (ISL)
connectivity and device-to-switch connectivity.
Table 66 (page 157) describes the distance rules for 16 Gb/s or 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel connections
when using 16 Gb/s or 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel switch models.
Table 66 Fibre Channel distance rules for 16 Gb/s and 8 Gb/s switch models (B-series, C-series,
and H-series)
Supported storage
productsSupported distancesInterface/transport
Heterogeneous SAN
servers, Fibre Channel
OM4 fiber
125 m at 16 Gb/s
OM3, OM3+ fiber
100 m at 16 Gb/s
OM2 fiber
35 m at 16 Gb/s
50 micron
multi-mode fiber optic
cable and short-wave
SFP+ transceivers
switches, and storage
systems
190 m at 8 Gb/s
150 m at 8 Gb/s50 m at 8 Gb/s
HP P6000 Continuous
Access (B-series,
400 m at 4 G/s
380 m at 4 Gb/s
500 m at 2 Gb/s
150 m at 4 Gb/s
300 m at 2 Gb/s
C-series, and H-series
only)
OM1 fiber
62.5 micron
1
multi-mode fiber optic
HP P9000 (XP)
Continuous Access
21 m ISL at 8 Gb/s
cable and short-wave
SFP+ transceivers
(B-series and C-series
only)
10 km ISL at 16 Gb/s (B-series only)
9 micron single-mode
fiber optic cable and
long-wave SFPs
10 km ISL at 8 Gb/s (H-series with additional buffer credits allocated)
2
10 km ISL at 8 Gb/s (B-series and C-series only)
25 km ISL at 8 Gb/s (B-series only)
3.3 km ISL at 8 Gb/s (H-series only, base switch)
6.6 km ISL at 4 Gb/s (H-series only, base switch)
10 km ISL at 2 Gb/s (H-series only, base switch)
40 km ISL at 8 Gb/s (B-series only)
Fibre Channel using
WDM
3
100 km ISL at 4 Gb/s
250 km at 2 Gb/s
1
Information for 62.5 micron fiber optic cable is provided to facilitate use of installed cable. HP recommends 50 micron
fiber optic cable for new installations that require multi-mode fiber.
2
You can use EFMS to allocate more buffer credits to ports of an H-series switch to achieve increased distance up to the
limit of the SFP capability.
3
WDM distance is the maximum distance for the WDM link.
Table 67 (page 157) describes the distance rules for 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel ISL connections when
using 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel switch models with 10 Gb/s ISL ports.
Table 67 Distance rules for 8 Gb switch models with 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel ISL ports (B-series,
C-series, and H-series switches)
Supported distancesInterface/transport
15 m ISL at 10 Gb/s (C-series only)
CX4 Copper
20 m ISL at 20 Gb/s (H-series only)
OM3, OM3+ fiberOM2 fiber
50 micron multi-mode fiber optic cable
and short-wave SFP+ transceivers
300 m ISL at 10 Gb/s82 m ISL at 10 Gb/s
33 m ISL at 10 Gb/s (H-series only)
62.5 micron
1
multi-mode fiber optic
cable and short-wave SFP+
transceivers
10 km ISL at 10 Gb/s (B-series and C-series only)
9 micron single-mode fiber optic cable
and long-wave SFPs
40 km ISL at 10 Gb/s (C-series only)
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