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Table 2-2. Supported Novell NetWare SAN Configurations (continued)

Component	Supported Maximum	Conditions/Requirements
130T libraries	Maximum of two	Allows a maximum of 16 PowerVault
	PowerVault 130T	130T libraries per SAN with a maxi-
	DLT4000 or DLT7000	mum of four tape drives per Power-
	libraries per PowerVault	Vault 35F bridge.
	35F bridge.
Switches	Maximum of six Power-	Three switches are supported per
	Vault Fibre Channel	fabric, allowing six switches for
	switches per SAN.	redundant configurations and three
		for nonredundant configurations. At
		least one PowerVault 51F or 56F
		switch per fabric is strongly recom-
		mended for support of a zoning GUI;
		see the Dell PowerVault Systems
		Storage Area Network Revision Com-
		patibility Guide, which is available at
		http://support.dell.com, for the lat-
		est release of the GUI.

Dell PowerVault 530F SAN Appliance Configurations

A SAN zone that contains one or more Dell PowerVault 530F SAN appliances is con- sidered to be a PowerVault 530F SAN appliance configuration. A PowerVault 530F SAN appliance configuration contains either one stand-alone appliance or two appli- ances configured as a redundant pair. Each PowerVault 530F SAN appliance configuration (stand-alone or redundant pair) must be in a separate zone.

Table 2-3 lists the maximum number of components supported in a PowerVault 530F configuration.

Table 2-3. Supported PowerVault 530F SAN Appliance Configurations

Component Supported Maximum Conditions/Requirements

Servers	Maximum of 20 serv-
	ers running Windows
	NT or Windows 2000.

See the Release Notes on the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilities CD Version 4.0 or the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Update CD Version 4.0 or see the Dell PowerVault Storage Area Network (SAN) Version 4.0 Revision Compatibility Guide at http://support.dell.com for a list of supported servers and required revi- sion levels.

Host bus	Maximum of two HBAs	Allows a maximum of 40 HBAs in a
adapters	per server.	SAN and 48 HBAs in a backup-only
(HBAs)		SAN.

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