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Dell EMC Storage Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS Series Arrays Deployment and Configuration Guide Dell EMC Storage Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS Series Arrays Abstract This document provides guidance on host and switching devices that are validated for use with Dell EMC SC Series, Dell PS Series, and Dell FS Series (FluidFS) storage solutions. May 2021 DSCM Table of contents Table of contents 1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Definitions ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Abbreviations and Terminology .......................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 Conventions used in this document ................................................................................................................... 7 2 Dell Storage support policy statement ......................................................................................................................... 8 2.1 Level 1: Full contractual support ......................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 Level 2: Conditional support ............................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Level 3: Commercially reasonable effort ............................................................................................................ 9 2.4 Level 4: No support ............................................................................................................................................ 9 2.5 Support for cross-platform coexisting solutions .................................................................................................. 9 2.6 FS Series additional support statement ........................................................................................................... 10 2.6.1 Switch support policy ........................................................................................................................................ 10 2.6.2 Client OS environment support policy .............................................................................................................. 11 2.6.3 MD Series support policy statement ................................................................................................................. 11 2.7 Other statements .............................................................................................................................................. 11 2.7.1 Operating system, switch, and server adapter settings.................................................................................... 11 2.7.2 Server interoperability ....................................................................................................................................... 12 2.7.3 Host connectivity adapters and server vendor support .................................................................................... 12 2.7.4 Persistent FCIDs............................................................................................................................................... 12 2.7.5 Limits of supportability ...................................................................................................................................... 12 3 Switches ..................................................................................................................................................................... 13 3.1 Fibre Channel Switches (SC, SCv, and FS Series) ......................................................................................... 13 3.2 Fibre channel over Ethernet Switches (SC Series) .......................................................................................... 14 3.3 iSCSI Switches ................................................................................................................................................. 15 3.3.1 1/10 iSCSI Switches (SC, SCv, and FS Series) ............................................................................................... 15 3.3.2 25/100Gb iSCSI Switches (SC, SCv Series) .................................................................................................... 16 3.3.3 1/10Gb Switches (PS Series) ........................................................................................................................... 17 3.4 iSCSI over DCB support (SC, SCv and PS Series) ......................................................................................... 24 4 Host connectivity ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 4.1 Required Adapter and Server OS Settings ...................................................................................................... 29 4.2 Fibre Channel Adapters (SC and SCv Series) ................................................................................................. 30 4.3 iSCSI Adapters ................................................................................................................................................. 67 4.3.1 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters (SC and SCv Series).......................................................... 67 4.3.2 Software iSCSI initiators (SC and SCv Series) ................................................................................................ 75 4.3.3 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters (PS Series) ......................................................................... 80 2 Dell EMC Storage Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS Series Arrays | DSCM Table of contents 4.3.4 Network interface cards for boot from SAN and DCB support for iSCSI (PS Series) ...................................... 87 4.3.5 Software iSCSI initiators (PS Series) ............................................................................................................... 90 4.4 SAS Adapters (SC and SCv Series)................................................................................................................. 92 4.5 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Adapters (SC, SCv Series) .................................................................. 100 4.5.1 FCoE converged network and host bus adapters (SC, SCv Series) .............................................................. 100 4.5.2 Software FCoE initiators (SC and SCv Series) .............................................................................................. 105 5 Other support matrices ............................................................................................................................................. 106 5.1 Cisco UCS support ......................................................................................................................................... 106 5.2 Storage virtualization appliances .................................................................................................................... 106 5.3 KMS solutions ................................................................................................................................................. 106 5.4 Data Protection ............................................................................................................................................... 107 A Required Adapter and Server OS Settings .............................................................................................................. 108 A.1 Adapter Settings ............................................................................................................................................. 108 A.1.1 Cisco Fibre Channel Adapters ........................................................................................................................ 108 A.1.2 Emulex Fibre Channel Adapters ..................................................................................................................... 108 A.1.3 QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters (and re-branded adapters based on QLogic) ............................................. 109 A.2 Server OS Settings ......................................................................................................................................... 110 A.2.1 Windows Server 2008r2 ................................................................................................................................. 110 A.2.2 Windows Server 2012 and Later .................................................................................................................... 116 A.2.3 Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, Oracle, Ubuntu) ......................................................................................................... 122 A.2.4 VMware ........................................................................................................................................................... 125 A.2.5 Oracle Solaris ................................................................................................................................................. 126 A.2.6 IBM AIX ..........................................................................................................................................................
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