Table 2-4. Supported Heterogeneous SAN Configurations (continued)

Components

Supported Maximums

Conditions/Requirements

 

 

 

Management

One Windows NT or

station

Windows 2000 system

 

is required for managing

 

storage.

The Windows NT or Windows 2000 management station must be attached to the same local- or wide- area network as the NetWare servers. One of the SAN-attached NetWare servers must be running Data Managed Node for NetWare.

650F, 651F,

Each PowerVault 650F,

PowerVault 660F storage systems

and 660F

651F, and 660F requires

are supported only in Windows and

 

one of the following:

PowerVault 530F zones.

 

 

 

Target storage

Maximum of eight ports

A maximum of eight ports are avail-

ports

for storage per fabric.

able for any combination of the

 

 

following devices: PowerVault 35F

 

 

bridge, PowerVault 650F and 651F

 

 

disk processor enclosures (DPEs),

 

 

PowerVault 660F storage systems,

 

 

and PowerVault 530F SAN appli-

 

 

ances. (Each stand-alone PowerVault

 

 

530F uses two storage ports on the

 

 

switch between the server and the

 

 

PowerVault 530F. Each redundant pair

 

 

of PowerVault 530Fs uses three stor-

 

 

age ports on the switch.)

 

 

 

35F bridges

Maximum of eight

Allows a maximum of eight bridges in

 

PowerVault 35F bridges

a backup SAN.

 

 

 

120T

Maximum of four

A maximum of 32 PowerVault 120T

autoloaders

PowerVault 120T

autoloaders per SAN.

 

DLT4000 or DLT7000

 

 

autoloaders per Power-

 

 

Vault 35F bridge.

 

 

 

 

130T libraries

Maximum of two

A maximum of 16 PowerVault 130T

 

PowerVault 130T

libraries per SAN with a maximum of

 

DLT4000 or DLT7000

four tape drives per PowerVault 35F

 

libraries per PowerVault

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

 

 

latest release of the GUI.

 

 

 

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