Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.5 (Software Release C.75.00) (30216-90336)

Chapter 4

Fibre Channel Device and Adapter Support on HP e 3000 Systems

Fibre Channel Adapters and Peripherals Supported

This section gives the list of supported fibre channel adapters and peripherals on N-Class and A-Class HP

e3000 systems with MPE/iX 7.5.

Fibre Channel Device Adapter Card

The Fibre Channel Device Adapter Card supported on MPE/iX 7.5 for N- and A-Class HP e3000 systems is:

• A6795A — PCI 4X 2Gbps Single Port Fibre Channel Adapter

This fibre channel adapter card utilizes the Tachyon XL2 chip, the newest member of the Tachyon family

product suite of Fibre Channel interface controllers. It operates at 2 Gigabits per second speed in a 4x PCI

slot. This adapter card can automatically sense the fibre channel link speed to operate at 1Gbps or 2Gbps,

thus enabling it to work with fibre channel devices supporting either speeds.

For further details on these FC adapter cards, see “HP e3000 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters -- Service

and User Manual”.

Since this adapter card is PCI-bus based, it can be supported only on N-class and A-class HP e3000 systems.

There will be no support for Fibre Channel Device Adapter cards on the NIO-bus based HP e3000 systems

like 99x or 9x9 systems. These systems would continue to need a SCSI-FC router for connecting to fibre

channel devices.

Fibre Channel Devices

The following fibre channel devices can be connected to N- and A-Class HP e3000 systems through fibre

channel device adapter cards.

• HP SureStore Disk Array XP48

• HP SureStore Disk Array XP512

• HP SureStore Virtual Array 7100

At present, only FC disk devices are supported with FC adapter cards. No tape devices are supported on FC

adapter cards.

Fibre Channel Switches

In order to support the fibre channel fabric topology and provide wide range of connectivity options for HP

e3000 customers, the following fibre channel switches are supported with FC adapter cards.

• Brocade 2800 16-port FC Switch

• Brocade 2400 8-port FC Switch

Fibre Channel Hubs

The following fibre channel hub products are supported with FC adapter cards on N- and A-class HP e3000

systems.

• HP SureStore Hub S10 (ShortWave)

• HP SureStore Hub L10 (LongWave)