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3 Dell EMC Storage Compatibility Matrix for SC, PS, and FS Series Arrays | DSCM
4.3.4 Network interface cards for boot from SAN and DCB support for iSCSI (PS Series) ...................................... 81
4.3.5 Software iSCSI initiators (PS Series) ............................................................................................................... 84
4.4 SAS Adapters (SC and SCv Series)................................................................................................................. 86
4.5 Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Adapters (SC, SCv Series) .................................................................... 93
4.5.1 FCoE converged network and host bus adapters (SC, SCv Series) ................................................................ 93
4.5.2 Software FCoE initiators (SC and SCv Series) ................................................................................................ 97
5 Other support matrices ............................................................................................................................................... 98
5.1 Cisco UCS support ........................................................................................................................................... 98
5.2 Storage virtualization appliances ...................................................................................................................... 98
5.3 KMS solutions ................................................................................................................................................... 98
5.4 Data Protection ................................................................................................................................................. 99
A Required Adapter and Server OS Settings .............................................................................................................. 100
A.1 Adapter Settings ............................................................................................................................................. 100
A.1.1 Cisco Fibre Channel Adapters ........................................................................................................................ 100
A.1.2 Emulex Fibre Channel Adapters ..................................................................................................................... 100
A.1.3 QLogic Fibre Channel Adapters (and re-branded adapters based on QLogic) ............................................. 101
A.2 Server OS Settings ......................................................................................................................................... 102
A.2.1 Windows Server 2008r2 ................................................................................................................................. 102
A.2.2 Windows Server 2012 and Later .................................................................................................................... 108
A.2.3 Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, Oracle, Ubuntu) ......................................................................................................... 114
A.2.4 VMware ........................................................................................................................................................... 117
A.2.5 Oracle Solaris ................................................................................................................................................. 118
A.2.6 IBM AIX ........................................................................................................................................................... 119
A.2.7 Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) ......................................................................................................................... 120
A.2.8 HP-UX 11i ....................................................................................................................................................... 121
B SC and SCv Fibre Channel Zoning .......................................................................................................................... 122
C Deprecated devices .................................................................................................................................................. 123
C.1 Host configurations ......................................................................................................................................... 123
C.1.1 SC Series ........................................................................................................................................................ 123
C.1.2 PS Series ........................................................................................................................................................ 133
C.2 Deprecated switches ...................................................................................................................................... 137
C.2.1 SC Series and PS Series ............................................................................................................................... 137
C.2.2 FS Series ........................................................................................................................................................ 139
D Technical support and additional resources ............................................................................................................. 140
D.1 Related documentation ................................................................................................................................... 140
D.2 RPQ process .................................................................................................................................................. 140