VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Hardware Notes

Hardware Notes

Disk Array Conﬁgurations Supported for Use with DMP

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select HardWare Compatibility List. The Hardware Compatibility List includes a list of

supported arrays, and a list of supported arrays together with a pointer to the appropriate

Tech Note.

Arrays supported by the Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) feature are a subset of the arrays

supported by VxVM. The following arrays can have multiple paths to the same disk. Arrays

that are not listed in this document or on the VERITAS Support website may only be

supported for single path access.

Arrays supported in Active/Active (A/A) mode:

• JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks); see “JBOD Disk Array Support in DMP” on page 11

• Cisco MDS 9000

• EMC Symmetrix 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0; see “EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays” on page 11

• Hitachi Data Systems 9970 and 9980 Disk Array Subsystem

• Hitachi TagmaStore USP

• HP Surestore Disk System FC10; see “HP Surestore Disk System FC10” on page 12

• HP StorageWorks Disk System DS2405

• HP Surestore Virtual Array 7100, 7110, 7400 and 7400

• HP Surestore Disk Array XP48, XP128, XP256 and XP1024; see “HP Surestore Disk

Array XP48, XP256 and XP512” on page 13

Arrays supported in Active/Passive (A/P) mode:

• EMC Clariion CX400 and CX600; see“DMP Coexistence with EMC PowerPath” on

page 13

• Hitachi Data Systems 9500 Disk Array Subsystem

• HP High Availability Fibre Channel Disk Array Model 30/FC

• HP Surestore Disk Array FC60; see“HP Surestore Disk Array FC60” on page 13

• IBM FAStT 500, 600, 700 and 900

• STK FlexLine FLX280

See “Administering Array Support Library Packages” on page 17 for details of how to add,

remove or upgrade ASL packages.