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NOTE: Consider the following VIO requirements:
• For NS1000 and NS1200 servers, expanded ports are available only to customers who have
the HP ESS.
• The VIO enclosure software is not backward compatible and is supported only on H06.08
and later RVUs.
• Prior to December 2006, the NS1000 and NS14000 servers were shipped with a limited
IOAME configuration known as the IO Core, which consisted of an IOAME with six adapter
slots rather than the usual ten slots. Customer installations with the IO Core configuration will
be supported until December 2011.
Table 79 (page 180) describes supported NonStop server configurations with IOAMEs.
Table 79 NonStop high-availability configurations using IOAMEs
Maximum availability
configuration
minimum/recommended
SAN configuration
minimum/recommended
Direct host attach configuration
minimum/recommendedNonStop server support
2/42/20/0
Number of Fibre Channel
SAN fabrics
1/21/11/1Number of XP storage systems
2/21/11/1Number of IOAMEs
4/42/42/4
Number of Fibre Channel
ServerNet adapters
180 Heterogeneous server rules