Operating systems and storage products
The fabric rules for C-series switches apply to SANs that include the operating systems and storage
products listed in Table 49.
Table 49 C-series Fibre Channel switch operating system and storage system support
Storage productsOperating systems
• EVA8400/6400
• EVA4400
• EVA8100/8000/6100/6000/4100/4000
• EVA3000/5000
• 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
• Citrix Xen
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
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