4.0.0 HP Polyserve Matrix Server Installation Guide (T5392-96046, March 2010)

1 Configuration information
PolyServe is continually expanding its supported hardware and operating system
configurations.
Supported hardware
The following hardware can be used in a Matrix Server matrix.
Configuration LimitHardware
Two to 16 servers.Servers
Up to four network interfaces per server.Network Interface Cards (any
card supported by Microsoft
Windows Server 2008)
One FC port per server can be connected to the matrix
SAN (four FC ports are supported with a third-party
MPIO driver).
FibreChannel Host Bus Adapters
Two levels of cascading switches.FibreChannel Switches
Up to 256 LUNs for FC fabric configurations; on iSCSI,
the maximum number of connections for the iSCSI
initiator.
FibreChannel Storage Subsystems
Supported HBA drivers
Before you install Matrix Server, we recommend that you install a supported HBA
driver on the servers that will be in the matrix. See the HP PolyServe compatibility
matrix for the supported drivers.
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/polyserve/support/
compatibility.pdf
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