More on the subject...

[Khalid A. Al-Tayaran]

Hi all,

I posted this:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=477867

but I need more feedback. So what do you think?

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi,
I think it should be all right to go for it, N-class would support both A5158A and A6826A

have a look at this one

http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity/storagesnf2/adapter15/infolibrary/fibre_channel_adapters.html

and

http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity/storagesnf2/adapter15/specifications/index.html

[Rajeev Shukla]

Ya sorry i meant A6795A, as said N-class would support upto 12 adapters under 11.0, a better picture can been seen from http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity/storagesnf2/adapter15/specifications/index.html

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

N class support that card (A6795A)

[Steven E. Protter]

I think you are in good shape with the N class and the two adapters recommended.

Assuming they are both certified for the N class(I'll take my friends word for it tonight), you can hook into multiple sans.

There is a lun limit on certain disk arrays of 8 per card, but HP is supposedly working on raising that limit. Maybe they already have.

SEP

[Khalid A. Al-Tayaran]

Hi again and thanks for the replys,

O.K, if the card works with the N-class will it be O,K with the IBM SAN ?

[Stefan Farrelly]

I think you will be on your own if you use the HP cards and IBM SAN. HP support their SAN from the driver on the HP-UX server, to the card then SAN and storage device. If you use an IBM SAN on your HP what are you going to do if you have problems ?

HP will say the HP card and driver are ok - the SAN is nothing to do with them (its IBM's) IBM will say the SAN is ok - its an HP driver/card/server problem.

And youre going to have catch-22.

I would not want to run this environment in production because of this lack of clearly defined support issue.

[Khalid A. Al-Tayaran]

Hi,
Stefan you're right about the support. The IBM documents mention that all HP N,L,V classes are supported (There are drivers for the tape library and robotic arms). K-classes aren't spported. (Note:IBM stated that the card A5158A not supported).

So I guess it's now up to us to find out if this works or not...