HP Insight Management 7.1 Update 1 Support Matrix - 60 day

Fibre channel storage and switch recommendations
HP recommends the HP storage solution portfolio of products, which includes:
• 3PAR Storage Systems
• P6000 EVA
• P9000 XP
You must provide connectivity to a compatible Fibre Channel SAN array. Customer-supplied Fibre
Channel switches to an external SAN must support boot from SAN and NPIV functionality.
To obtain a list of switches and storage devices that are supported by Virtual Connect Fibre Channel:
1. Open a browser to the following website:
http://www.hp.com/storage/spock
2. If you are a new user and do not have an HP Passport account, register for an account. If you
have an account, sign in.
3. Navigate to Other Hardware→Virtual Connect→HP VC 8Gb 24-Port Module.
iSCSI SAN
As noted in Table 29 (page 33), iSCSI is supported only as a virtual backing store (not a physical
server booting from iSCSI or a virtual machine directly accessing raw iSCSI LUNs).
To use iSCSI, you must provide connectivity to a compatible iSCSI SAN. As with Fibre Channel
storage, the storage vendor generally certifies end-to-end support for an iSCSI storage device.
VMware and Microsoft independently certify third-party devices with their respective operating
systems, hypervisors, and iSCSI initiators. Confirmation of device support by the hypervisor vendor
is a prerequisite to support in Insight Management.
NOTE: For security, reliability, and performance, HP recommends separate, dedicated iSCSI
networks for iSCSI LAN traffic.
iSCSI targets as backing storage for VM guests
HP recommends the following iSCSI targets as backing storage for virtual machine guests:
SeeiSCSI targets
http://www.hp.com/go/3parHP 3PAR iSCSI Storage Systems
http://www.hp.com/go/p4000HP P4000 SAN Solutions:
• HP P4300 G2
• HP P4500 G2
• HP P4800 G2
http://www.hp.com/go/p6000HP iSCSI Enterprise Virtual Array Systems:
• HP P6300
• HP P6500
See storage vendor's documentation.Other iSCSI targets certified and supported by the storage
vendor and Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX
iSCSI device references
For more information on support for HP iSCSI devices, see the following website:
http://www.hp.com/storage/spock
32 Hardware requirements for managed systems