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Table 46 C-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support
Storage productsOperating systems
• P6550/P6500/P6350/P6300 EVA
• HP-UX
•
•
OpenVMS
EVA8400/6400
•
•
EVA4400
Apple Mac OS X
•
•
Citrix Xen
MSA2000fc G2 (MSA2300fc)/MSA2000fc
•
•
MSA2040
IBM AIX
•
•
Oracle Linux
P9500
•
•
P2000 G3 FC
Red Hat Linux
•
•
SUSE SLES Linux
P4330 FC
•
•
XP24000/20000
Microsoft Windows
•
•
Solaris
XP12000/10000
•
•
XP7
VMware ESX
• 3PAR StoreServ 10000/7000
• 3PAR F-Class, T-Class
• 3PAR Remote Copy
• HP P9000 (XP) Continuous Access
• HP P6000 Continuous Access See “HP P6000 Continuous Access SAN integration”
(page 228)
The operating systems listed in Table 46 (page 136) might 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 storage system rules chapters:
• “MSA storage system rules” (page 211)
• “P6000/EVA storage system rules” (page 221)
• “P9000/XP storage system rules” (page 235)
Fabric rules for C-series Fibre Channel switches
The following fabric rules apply to all C-series Fibre Channel SANs. They also apply, in general,
to HP P9000 (XP) Continuous Access and HP P6000 Continuous Access configurations. However,
additional rules apply to HP Continuous Access implementations. For more information, see the
HP P6000 Continuous Access Implementation Guide.
Table 47 (page 136) lists the rules for creating a SAN with C-series Fibre Channel switches.
Table 47 C-series Fibre Channel switch fabric rules
DescriptionRule number
Up to 60 MDS switches with up to 4,000 total ports and 3,500 user ports in a fabric1
HP SN8000C 6-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 2 Director Switch and MDS 9506 switch supports up to
192 ports over four modular slots (four 48-port modules
1
).
2
HP SN8000C 9-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 2 Director Switch and MDS 9509 switch supports up to
336 ports over seven modular slots (seven 48-port modules
1
).
3
Note: This requires Supervisor-2 or Supervisor-2A Modules.
HP SN8000C 13-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 3 Director Switch, HP SN8000C 13-Slot Supervisor 2A
Fabric 2 Director Switch and MDS 9513 switch supports up to 528 ports over eleven modular slots
(eleven 48-port modules
1
).
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