User Manual

220 Configuring interoperability mode
• SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, and SAN Director
2/128 must be running 4.2.0 or later.
• SAN Switch 4/32 must be running Fabric OS v4.4.0 or later.
• A zoning license and a fabric license must be installed on each HP StorageWorks switch.
Supported HP StorageWorks features
The following features are supported on HP StorageWorks switches in interoperability mode:
• HP Fabric Watch
• HP Fabric Access API functions
Accessible from HP StorageWorks switches only, but switch information for non-HP StorageWorks
switches is reported. The object information and zoning actions are configurable from the API.
• HP translative mode
Registers private storage target devices into the fabric, it can be used in a heterogeneous fabric if the
devices are connected directly to HP StorageWorks switches. The devices are accessible from any
port on the fabric.
Unsupported HP StorageWorks features
In a heterogeneous fabric, the following HP optional features are not supported and cannot be installed
on any HP StorageWorks switch in the fabric:
• Extended Edge PID format
• QuickLoop and QuickLoop Zoning
• Secure Fabric OS
• Timer Server function
• Open E_Port
• Broadcast Zoning
• Management Server Service and FDMI
• QuickLoop Fabric Assist
• Remote Switch
• Extended Fabrics
• Trunking
• Alias Server
• Platform Service
• Virtual Channels
• FC-IP