From: Brown, Michael A. (MIABROWN@GAPAC.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 12:31:08 EST
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Kurt, Has this worked or have you even tried it yet? I would be curious to know once you have tried it. My office was looking at the lower level RX servers but found ... fibre is not yet supported! Please do send an update, thanks!
Mike Brown
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
MiABrown@gapac.com <mailto:MiABrown@gapac.com>
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From: Kurt Girsch [mailto:girsch@boku.ac.at]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:32 AM
To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
Cc: girsch@mail.boku.ac.at
Subject: [HPADM] SUMMAY: rx5670 & clariion FC4500
hi admins,
thanks to:
Bill Hassell <pooderbill@mindspring.com>
John Adams <John.Adams@molex.com>
Leon Kazakin <lkazakin@rci.rogers.com>
Martin Fabris <mfabris@solardata.net>
Rita Workman <RWORKMAN@wvbep.org>
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hi list,
we plan to order a rx5670 (FC-controller A6795A) and connect
it to our SAN (clariion FC4500 & Emc2 DS 8B-switches).
BUT itīs seems to be not so easy!
HP & Emc2 say, at the moment there is for
this config not certification!
has anyone such a config?
thank for any tips!
tia
ys kurt
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John Adams <John.Adams@molex.com> wrote:
Kurt,
I've done this with an L-class and N-class via EMC DS-16b (i.e. painted
Brocade) switches. I think the cards were A5838A Tachyon Lite models,
although that's not 100% certain. I'm also not sure it was a supported
architecture, just that it worked. You may want to push EMC on this
point, it may just be a configuration that hasn't made it into their labs
yet.
I don't see your A6795A cards in the copy of the EMC interoperability
matrix I've got, but it's at least 6 months out of date so has probably
updated. If these are the newer HP 2gb cards, then I can say I've got
them connected through the same model DS-16b to an EMC Symmetrix with no
problems.
I would expect the configuration to work, but since EMC is dumping support
for older (i.e. non-CX600) Clariions, for it never to become formally
supported.
Good luck!
J
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Bill Hassell <pooderbill@mindspring.com> wrote:
I would be VERY cautious about trying to make an
unsupported/uncertified combination of products
work in a SAN environment. The products are so
costly and there are almost no standards for many
of these connections. Even the supported ones can
be tricky to get working.
--
Best regards,
Bill Hassell, pooderbill@mindspring.com
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Leon Kazakin <lkazakin@rci.rogers.com> wrote:
you can check compatibility matrix on powerlink.emc.com
LK
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Martin Fabris <mfabris@solardata.net> wrote:
Your configuration should work fine even though HP has not certified it.
Fiber channel communication follows industry standards and the Clariion
should appear to the HP server like any other external disk array.
Currently, HP and EMC have sued each other over patent infringements
(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,598854,00.asp) and that probably
explains the unwillingness to certify your configuration. I think it's
only political.
Martin Fabris
Villa Park, Illinois
USA
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Rita Workman <RWORKMAN@wvbep.org> wrote:
Well maybe this thread will help you decide which fiber adapter you
might want to consider...
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/information_storage/support_doc/lpg75121.html
Rgrds,
Rita
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