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Table 33 Integrated Fibre Channel routing, 1606 Extension SAN Switch, DC Dir Switch MP Extension Blade,
400 MP Router, and MP Router Blade scalability rules for firmware 6.2 x /6.3 x /6.4 x /7. x (continued)
Meta SAN scalability
Edge fabrics containing
up to 1,500 WWNs:
Maximum number of edge fabrics connected in a Meta SANEdge fabrics
• 48 (DC and
SN8000B Directors)
• 24 (all others)
Edge fabrics containing
up to 2,000 WWNs
(FOS v6.3 and higher):
• 32 (DC and
SN8000B Directors)
• 12 (all others)
10,000 (with only DC
and SN8000B Directors
as routers)
Maximum number of total devices per Meta SAN
Meta SAN
5,000 (with all other 8
Gb or 16 Gb switches
as routers)
12
Maximum number of edge fabrics per chassis:
400 MP Router and MP Router Blade, 8/80, 8/40, 1606, SN6000B
24 (DC Director, HP
SN8000B 8-Slot SAN
Maximum number of edge fabrics per chassis:
DC Director, 8/80, 8/40, 1606, SN6000B switches with Integrated Routing
Backbone Director
HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch, HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director
Switch
Switch, HP SN8000B
4-Slot SAN Director
Switch with Integrated
Routing)
12 (all other chassis)
128/80/40/16/48
Maximum number of EX_Ports per chassis with Integrated Routing
(DC and SN8000B Directors, 8/80, 8/40, 1606, SN6000B switches)
10Maximum number of 400 MP Routers per Meta SANRouters
10,000 (with only DC
and SN8000B as
routers)
Maximum number of LSAN device entries (proxy devices) per Meta SAN
LSAN
5,000 (with any 8/40,
8/80, 1606, SN6000B
as routers)
3,000
3
(6.x and 7.x)
Maximum number of LSAN zones per Meta SAN
Backbone fabric scalability
12 (6.x)
Maximum number of local switches per backbone fabricSwitches
12 (7.x)
512Maximum number of local WWNs per backbone fabricWWNs
Hop count scalability
12
Maximum number of hops between switches (including routers) in a Meta SAN
(Figure 55 (page 119))
Hop count
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