HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform 3.0.1 Release Notes (5697 - 0405, May 2010)

Devices supported
See the HP Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/
spock for approved driver and firmware versions for host bus adapters used with AIX, HP-UX, Linux,
Microsoft Windows Server, Sun Solaris, and VMware operating systems. Site registration is required.
SVSP-supported storage arrays
See the HP Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/
spock for a list of SVSP-approved storage arrays. Site registration is required.
Capabilities and limitations
For a glossary of terms used in this document, refer to other SVSP documentation like the HP
StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform administrator guide.
SVSP system capabilities and limitations
• Maximum capacity per system: 2 PB
• Maximum number of VSMs per system: 2
• Maximum number of DPMs per system: 4 DPM groups with maximum of 2 DPMs per group
• Maximum number of array ports: 128
For example:
• 32 arrays with 4–ports each
• 16 arrays with 8–ports each
• Any combination totalling up to 128 ports
• Maximum number of servers (with 2 HBA ports/server) per DPM pair: 512 (2048 with 4 DPM
pairs)
• Maximum number of tasks per domain (total snapclones, async mirrors, and internal migrations):
512
• Maximum HBAs per server: 8 (Windows/DSM limit)
• DPM maximum number synchronous mirror groups: 128 per DPM group (512 with 4 DPM groups)
• Defined maximum distances:
• Asynchronous mirrors are supported up to 150 ms one-way separation (iSCSI only), and min-
imum bandwidth set to 3 Mbps.
• Synchronous mirrors supports up to 0.5 ms one-way separation (Fibre Channel transport only).
• DPM maximum full performance capacity without synchronous mirror: 90 TB
• DPM maximum synchronous mirror virtual disk full performance capacity using 2 tasks: 45 TB
SVSP front-end capabilities and limitations
• Front-end presented capacity of the SVSP system: 8 PB (2 PB physical capacity and 2/4/8 PB
thin capacity with 2 PB per DPM group)
• Total initiator ports: 1024 per pair of DPMs (DPM group)
• Maximum number of remote ports (targets and initiators): 255 per local port, 1024 total
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