Question about fabric service on B,C,M-series switches

[Matthew_50]

Hello to all gurus,

I am a beginner with the SAN design things,

With a phase of book, "building sans with brocade" indicate that
there are 11 fabric services, but only few service are
supported by the switch in *real* cases, for example, the books
says Brocade switch don't support the management server,

1. What kind of services is supported by B-series, C-series, and
M-series switches ?
2. What if the client use Brocade, and they would like to use
VERITAS SANPoint Control, any insteal solution ?

[Peter Mattei]

1. To find that out check the individual Manuals
Go here http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure/index.html
check the respectve switch types and look for the manuals (support, drivers and Manuals)

2. Brocade supports SNMP and SMI-S which allow the management application to hook in.
HP Storage Essentials which is the most advanced SAN Management tool makes full use of the industry standard SMI-S interface.

I suggest you also have a look at the HP SAN design guide which is updated regularly and contains very valuable information
http://www.hp.com/go/sandesign

Cheers
Peter