Sun Microsystems 2.0 manual Release Notes, Using the NEM With Sun StorEdge 3510 and 3511 Arrays

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Release Notes

This chapter contains the latest supplementary information for the preceding chapters in this guide. It contains the following topics:

■Using the NEM With Sun StorEdge 3510 and 3511 Arrays

■Solaris OS-Specific Issues

■SUSE Linux Enterprise-Specific Issues

■Windows Server 2003 OS-Specific Issues

For additional information related to the Sun StorageTek 4 Gb FC NEM 20-Port Host Bus Adapter, see the Sun Blade 8000 Module System documentation set.

Using the NEM With Sun StorEdge 3510 and 3511 Arrays

You cannot connect the Sun StorEdge 3510 RAID array or Sun StorEdge 3511 FC with SATA RAID array to the NEM on the same channel that use different speeds (1 Gb and 2 Gb). You can, however, mix 1-Gb and 2-Gb FC HBAs on different controller channels. This limitation is due to the design of the Sun StorEdge 3510 RAID array's port bypass circuitry and the inability of FC to support auto-negotiation in a multi- drop loop configuration.

Host connectors channels 4 and 5 of the 3511 FC cannot auto-negotiate to 1 Gbit which limits the number of hosts that can be direct-attached using 1 Gbit HBAs. Channels 0 and 1 are able to auto-negotiate to 1 Gbit and allow up to four connections in a dual-controller configuration or two connectors each in a single- controller configuration.

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