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Table 117 P9000/XP heterogeneous SAN support (continued)
Operating systems
3
Switches
2, 3
Firmware version
1
Storage systems
Citrix 5.6
HP-UX
B-series
60x
XP20000
IBM AIX
C-series
XP24000
Microsoft Windows
H-series
5
50x
XP12000
OpenVMS
XP10000
Red Hat Linux
Oracle Solaris
SUSE Linux
Tru64 UNIX
VMware ESX
1
Contact an HP storage representative for the latest firmware version support.
2
XP7 and P9500 storage systems are not supported with 2 Gb/s switches.
3
For the supported operating system versions, see “Heterogeneous server rules” (page 165). Not all operating systems
listed are supported on all switch series or models.
4
B-series switches set to mode 3 are not supported with the following firmware versions: 70-06-09-00/00, 70-06-11-00/00,
70-06-13-00/00 and 70-06-15-00/00.
5
The H-series switches have limited operating system support. See “H-series switches servers, operating systems, and
storage system support” (page 145).
Configuration rules
Table 118 (page 236) describes P9000/XP storage system SAN configuration rules.
Table 118 P9000/XP storage system rules
Description
Rule
number
P9000/XP storage systems are supported in all SAN fabric topology configurations described in this guide.1
Unless otherwise specified, P9000/XP storage systems can be configured in a SAN using the switch models
listed in this guide. See the following tables:
2
• Table 51 (page 142) for H-series switches
• Table 20 (page 94) through Table 22 (page 95) for B-series
XP7 and P9500 storage systems are not supported with 2 Gb/s switches.
XP7 storage systems are not supported with H-series switches.
Storage ports can be accessed from heterogeneous operating system types and multiple clusters for HA
and non-HA configurations.
3
Overlapping zones are supported with disk and tape.
LUN Configuration and Security Manager XP are required for LUN isolation with multiple hosts connected
through a shared array port.
4
Connection to a common server is supported for P9500/XP storage systems.5
See “Heterogeneous SAN storage system coexistence” (page 208).
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