User`s guide

2–Getting Started
Best Practices
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Best Practices
This sections provides some “best practices” recommendations for DMS usage.
High Availability and Redundant Configurations
The following recommendations pertain to high availability (HA) and redundant
configurations:
 The MPX200 is capable of detecting and performing load balancing over
multiple paths. To achieve the highest data migration rates, zone multiple
ports from each array controller with each port of the MPX200.
Table 2-3. Supported Storage Arrays
Vendor Storage Array
EMC
®
CLARiiON
®
CX family
CLARiiON
®
AX family
Symmetrix
®
DMX family
Hitachi Data Systems
(HDS)
Thunder 95xx V series
Lightning 99xx V series
Attachable Modular Storage (AMS) family
Workgroup Modular Storage (WMS) family
Universal Storage Platform (USP) family
Hewlett-Packard
®
(HP)
HP StorageWorks Modular Storage Array (MSA) family
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family
HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays family
IBM
®
System Storage DS3000 family
System Storage DS4000 family
System Storage DS5000 family
System Storage DS6000 family
System Storage DS8000 family
NEC D-Series SAN Storage arrays
Xiotech
®
Emprise™ Storage family
Magnitude 3D
®
4000 family