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Operating systems and storage products The fabric rules for B-series switches and MP Routers apply to SANs that include the operating systems and storage products listed in Table 26. Table 26 B-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support Operating systems • HP-UX • OpenVMS • Tru64 UNIX • Apple Mac OS X • IBM AIX • Linux • Microsoft Windows • Novell NetWare • Sun Solaris • VMware ESX Storage products • EVA8400/6400 • EVA4400/4400 (embedded switch) • EVA8100/8000/6100/6000/4100/4000 • EVA5000/3000 • MSA2000fc G2 (MSA2300fc)/MSA2000fc • MSA1500/1000 • P2000 G3 FC • VA7410/7400/7110/7100 • XP24000/20000 • XP12000/10000 • XP1024/128 • XP512/48 • Continuous Access EVA (see "HP Continuous Access EVA SAN integration" on page 254) • XP Continuous Access For current operating system and storage system support, see the SPOCK website at http:// www.hp.com/storage/spock. You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access. See "Heterogeneous server rules" on page 185 and the following storage system rules chapters: • MSA storage system rules, page 235 • EVA storage system rules, page 247 • XP and VA storage system rules, page 263 B-series Fibre Channel switch and fabric rules The following fabric rules apply to all B-series Fibre Channel SANs. They also apply, in general, to HP XP Continuous Access and HP Continuous Access EVA configurations. However, additional rules apply to HP Continuous Access implementations. See the HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA Planning Guide for detailed information. SAN Design Reference Guide 107

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Operating systems and storage products
The fabric rules for B-series switches and MP Routers apply to SANs that include the operating systems
and storage products listed in
Table 26
.
Table 26 B-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support
Storage products
Operating systems
EVA8400/6400
EVA4400/4400 (embedded switch)
EVA8100/8000/6100/6000/4100/4000
EVA5000/3000
MSA2000fc G2 (MSA2300fc)/MSA2000fc
MSA1500/1000
P2000 G3 FC
VA7410/7400/7110/7100
XP24000/20000
XP12000/10000
XP1024/128
XP512/48
Continuous Access EVA
(see
HP Continuous Access EVA SAN integration
on page 254)
XP Continuous Access
HP-UX
OpenVMS
Tru64 UNIX
Apple Mac OS X
IBM AIX
Linux
Microsoft Windows
Novell NetWare
Sun Solaris
VMware ESX
For current operating system and storage system support, see the SPOCK website at
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. You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access.
See
Heterogeneous server rules
on page 185 and the following storage system rules chapters:
MSA storage system rules
, page 235
EVA storage system rules
, page 247
XP and VA storage system rules
, page 263
B-series Fibre Channel switch and fabric rules
The following fabric rules apply to all B-series Fibre Channel SANs. They also apply, in general, to
HP XP Continuous Access and HP Continuous Access EVA configurations. However, additional rules
apply to HP Continuous Access implementations. See the
HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA
Planning Guide
for detailed information.
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