the third party is required if HP will provide a single support point of contact that includes the third-party
storage. HP provides technical support for its products and cooperates with the third party's technical
support staff, as needed.
HP provides best-practices recommendations for connecting devices in the SAN (see
“Best practices” on page 417). These rules apply to configurations that include HP SAN storage products
and heterogeneous third-party SAN storage products:
• Use zones to isolate HP storage ports from third-party storage ports.
• Overlapping zones with multiple storage ports are not supported.
• Third-party storage zones are governed by product-specific configuration guidelines (see the third-
party product documentation).
• See “Third-party switch support” on page 179 for third-party fabric and switch support.
• See “Heterogeneous SAN storage system coexistence” on page 232 for storage system
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coexistence support.
Zoning
These zoning rules apply to a heterogeneous SAN with MSA1500 storage systems:
• Zoning is required for all operating systems that access an MSA1500. See
“Heterogeneous server rules” on page 185.
• An MSA1500 storage system can be in multiple operating system zones.
For configurations that support common server access to multiple storage system types, see
“Common server access” on page 232.
Maximums
Table 122 lists maximum configurations for the MSA1500.
Table 122 MSA1500 maximum configurations
Maximum
LUNs per
MSA
HBAs
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(initiators) per
active control-
ler port
LUNs per
HBA target
Active
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controller ports
(targets) per
HBA
HBAs per
serverOperating systems
1
Storage
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system
32323282HP-UX
Novell NetWare
Red Hat Linux
SUSE Linux
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 2003
VMware ESX
MSA1500
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For the supported operating system versions, see “Heterogeneous server rules” on page 185.
Contact an HP storage representative for a configuration review to determine support for configurations
that exceed the stated limits.
Tape storage
The following rules apply to tape storage support in a SAN with MSA1500 storage systems:
P2000 and MSA storage system rules242
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