HP Brocade 8/12c HP Fabric OS 6.2.2f Release Notes (5697-1756, February 2012) - Page 16

/256 SAN Director blade support, DC SAN Backbone and DC04 SAN Director blade support

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3 HP strongly recommends that M-EOS products operate with the most recent version of M-EOS that supports interoperability. For information about HP support of interoperable fabrics, see HP StorageWorks Merging Fabrics Based on M-series and B-series Fibre Channel Switches Application Notes, available at http://www.hp.com. 4 When routing to an M-EOS edge fabric using frame redirection, the fabric must have a Fabric OS-based product to configure the frame redirection zone information. 5 When directly attached to a host or target that is part of an encryption flow. 6 Products operating with Fabric OS versions earlier than 5.3.1b or 6.1.0e cannot participate in a logical fabric that is using XISLs (in the base fabric). 7 These platforms cannot be attached directly to hosts or targets for encryption flows. 8 SANRouters 1620 and 2640 must not be used with XPath or Fabric OS-based routing (FCR) for connections to the same edge fabric. 4/256 SAN Director blade support Fabric OS 6.2.2f is fully qualified and supports the Director blades listed in Table 2 (page 16). Table 2 4/256 SAN Director blade support matrix Director blade FC4-16 FC4-32 FC4-48 FC8-16 FC8-32 FC8-48 FC10-6 Number of blades Supported with any mix with up to eight blades of each type. No intermix restrictions. The 4/256 SAN Director must run Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later to support the FC8-16 port blade, and Fabric OS 6.1.0a or later to support the FC8-32 and FC8-48 port blades. FC4-16IP (iSCSI blade) FR4-18i (FCIP/FC Router blade) Up to four blades of this type Up to two blades of this type. Up to eight FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only for FC Fast Write or FCIP without routing. DC SAN Backbone and DC04 SAN Director blade support Fabric OS 6.2.2f is fully qualified and supports the DC Director blades listed in Table 3 (page 16). Table 3 DC Director blade support matrix Director blade FC8-16 FC8-32 FC8-48 FC10-6 Number of blades Supported with Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later with any mix, with up to eight blades of each type on the DC SAN Backbone Director. There are no intermix restrictions. The DC04 SAN Director requires Fabric OS 6.2.0a or later, and supports up to four blades. FC4-16IP (iSCSI blade) FR4-18i (FCIP/FC Router blade) Not supported with the DC SAN Backbone Director or DC04 SAN Director Supported with Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later, with a maximum of four blades of this type on the DC SAN Backbone Director. Up to eight FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only for FC Fast Write or FCIP without routing in the DC SAN Backbone Director. 16

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HP strongly recommends that M-EOS products operate with the most recent version of M-EOS
that supports interoperability. For information about HP support of interoperable fabrics, see
HP
StorageWorks Merging Fabrics Based on M-series and B-series Fibre Channel Switches Application
Notes
, available at
h
t
tp://w
w
w
.hp
.co
m
.
4
When routing to an M-EOS edge fabric using frame redirection, the fabric must have a Fabric
OS-based product to configure the frame redirection zone information.
5
When directly attached to a host or target that is part of an encryption flow.
6
Products operating with Fabric OS versions earlier than 5.3.1b or 6.1.0e cannot participate in
a logical fabric that is using XISLs (in the base fabric).
7
These platforms cannot be attached directly to hosts or targets for encryption flows.
8
SANRouters 1620 and 2640 must not be used with XPath or Fabric OS-based routing (FCR) for
connections to the same edge fabric.
4/256 SAN Director blade support
Fabric OS 6.2.2f is fully qualified and supports the Director blades listed in
Table 2 (page 16)
.
Table 2 4/256 SAN Director blade support matrix
Number of blades
Director blade
Supported with any mix with up to eight blades of each type. No
intermix restrictions. The 4/256 SAN Director must run Fabric OS
FC4-16
FC4-32
6.0.0b or later to support the FC8-16 port blade, and Fabric OS
6.1.0a or later to support the FC8-32 and FC8-48 port blades.
FC4-48
FC8-16
FC8-32
FC8-48
FC10-6
Up to four blades of this type
FC4-16IP (iSCSI blade)
Up to two blades of this type. Up to eight FR4-18i blades can be
installed if they are used only for FC Fast Write or FCIP without
routing.
FR4-18i (FCIP/FC Router blade)
DC SAN Backbone and DC04 SAN Director blade support
Fabric OS 6.2.2f is fully qualified and supports the DC Director blades listed in
Table 3 (page
16)
.
Table 3 DC Director blade support matrix
Number of blades
Director blade
Supported with Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later with any mix, with up
to eight blades of each type on the DC SAN Backbone Director.
FC8-16
FC8-32
There are no intermix restrictions. The DC04 SAN Director requires
Fabric OS 6.2.0a or later, and supports up to four blades.
FC8-48
FC10-6
Not supported with the DC SAN Backbone Director or DC04 SAN
Director
FC4-16IP (iSCSI blade)
Supported with Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later, with a maximum of four
blades of this type on the DC SAN Backbone Director. Up to eight
FR4-18i (FCIP/FC Router blade)
FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only for FC Fast
Write or FCIP without routing in the DC SAN Backbone Director.
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