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

HP SCSI-FC Fabric Router for the HP e3000

• SCSI-2 HVD: 68-pin High Density

• Device Support:

— HP28696A F/W SCSI I/O HPPB card (NIO based machines)

— HP4800A F/W SCSI I/O card (PCI based machines)

— HP5159A F/W SCSI I/O card (PCI based machines)

• Supports: Command Processing, Tagged Queuing, Disconnect/Reconnect, Synchronous and Asynchronous

data transfer

Fibre Connectivity

• Protocol: ANSI Fibre Channel (FC-PH) and ANSI Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

• Classes of Service: Class 3

• Topology: FC-AL (private or public), Point-to-Point

• Data Transfer Rate: 100 MB/sec (per SCSI-FC Router per fibre channel)

• Port Speed: 100 MB/sec

• Short Wavelength Optical Cable

— Data Rate: 100 MB/sec burst

— Cable: 50 or 62.5 micron fibre optic

— Distance: 500 meters (1640 feet) or 172 meter (564 feet)

— Connector: Dual SC

Fabric System Requirements

• Fibre optic cable: 62-or 50-micron fibre optic cable with dual SC connector, HSSDC Gigabit Interface

Converters (GBIC)

• SCSI-FC Router (host) microcode revision 8.01.0A or later

• SCSI-2 HVD compliant host adapter

• SCSI-2 compliant host

• SCSI-2 compliant cabling

• Proper electrical power source (UPS required for High Availability environments)

• Fabric solution requires one A5814A-003 router. (A5814A is not upgradable to A5814A-003)

Supported Devices

• HP SureStore Disk Array XP512 on MPE/iX 6.0 express 1 and greater

• HP SureStore Disk Array XP48 on MPE/iX 6.0 express 1 or greater

• HP Virtual Disk Array 7100 on MPE/iX 7.0 express 1 or greater

• Brocade 2400 Silkworm Fibre Channel Switch Firmware A2.4.1 or greater

• Brocade 2800 Silkworm Fibre Channel Switch Firmware A2.4.1 or greater

• Fibre Channel 1063 Mbps 10 port shortwave Hub A3724AZ