HP Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Networking Scenarios Cookbook

Virtual Connect Fibre Channel support

Virtual Connect Connectivity Stream documents that describe the different supported configurations are available

from the SPOCK webpage:

www.hp.com/storage/spock

(Requires HP Passport; if you do not have an HP Passport account, follow the instructions on the webpage).

For any specific, supported Fabric OS, SAN-OS, or NX-OS versions for SAN that involve 3rd-party equipment, consult

the equipment vendor.

Virtual Connect

Virtual Connect support matrix documents are available from the following Virtual Connect SPOCK webpage:

http://h20272.www2.hp.com/Pages/spock2Html.aspx?htmlFile=hw_virtual_connect.html

Fibre Channel connectivity stream documents are available in the Virtual Connect FC Modules section:

Since VC 4.01, Virtual Connect provides the ability to pass FCoE (Dual Hop) to an external FCoE capable network

switch. This guide is focused on Virtual Connect and Fibre Channel switch configurations needed to support this

connectivity.

For Dual Hop FCoE connectivity, see Dual-Hop FCoE with HP Virtual Connect modules Cookbook in the Related

Documentation section.

FC and FCoE switches

The SPOCK Switch page contains the supported configurations of the upstream switch connected to Virtual Connect.

Details about firmware and OS versions are usually provided.

http://h20272.www2.hp.com/Pages/spock2Html.aspx?htmlFile=hw_switches.html