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2 Dell EMC Storage Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS Series Arrays | DSCM
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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 ................................................................................................................................................. 62
4.3.1 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters (SC and SCv Series).......................................................... 62
4.3.2 Software iSCSI initiators (SC and SCv Series) ................................................................................................ 69
4.3.3 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters (PS Series) ......................................................................... 74