| The new, combined Dell Storage Compatibility Matirx (January 2016) is now available here: PDF The DSCM provides guidance on host and switching devices have been validated for use with SC Series (Compellent), PS Series (EqualLogic) and FS Series (FluidFS) storage solutions. This list is not an exhaustive list of what works with any of these solutions. Dell Storage solutions are based on storage industry standards for Fibre Channel and iSCSI and can work with almost any host adapter or switch that adheres to these standards. Please review the Support Policy Statement for clarification on how Dell will provide support for validated and non-validated components. Table of Contents1 Overview 1.1 Definitions 1.2 Conventions used in this document 2 Dell Storage support policy statement 2.1 Level 1: Full contractual support 2.2 Level 2: Conditional support 2.3 Level 3: Commercially reasonable effort 2.4 Support for cross-platform coexisting solutions 2.5 FS Series additional support statement 2.5.1 Switch support policy 2.5.2 Client OS environment support policy 2.6 MD Series support policy statement 2.7 Other statements 2.7.1 Operating system, switch, and server adapter settings 2.7.2 Server interoperability 2.7.3 Host connectivity adapters and server vendor support 2.7.4 Persistent FCIDs 2.7.5 Allows AIX OS to survive Storage Center controller failover events of up to 60 seconds Limits of supportability 2.8 Abbreviations and terminology 3 Switches 3.1 SC Series and SCv Series 3.1.1 Fibre Channel 3.1.2 FCoE 3.1.3 iSCSI switches 3.2 PS Series 3.2.1 Summary 3.2.2 Switches 3.3 Fluid File System 3.3.1 FS8000 Series 3.3.2 FS7000 Series 3.4 Deprecated switches 3.4.1 SC Series & PS Series 3.4.2 FS Series 4 Host connectivity 4.1 SC Series 4.1.1 Fibre Channel host bus adapters 4.1.2 Fibre Channel over Ethernet host bus and converged network adapters 4.1.3 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters 4.1.4 Network interface cards for boot from SAN for iSCSI and FCoE 4.1.5 Software iSCSI initiators 4.1.6 Software FCoE initiators 4.2 SCv Series 4.2.1 Fibre Channel host bus adapters 4.2.2 Fibre channel over Ethernet converged network and host bus adapters 4.2.3 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters 4.2.4 Network interface cards for boot from SAN for iSCSI 4.2.5 Software iSCSI initiators 4.2.6 Software FCoE initiators 4.2.7 SAS HBA 4.3 PS Series 4.3.1 iSCSI converged network and host bus adapters 4.3.2 Network interface cards for boot from SAN & DCB support for iSCSI 4.3.3 Software iSCSI initiators 5 Other support matrices 5.1 Fluid File System Enterprise Manager support 5.2 Security key management system support 5.3 Cisco UCS support 5.4 Storage virtualization appliances A Additional resources A.1 Technical support A.2 Related documentation |
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Tags: compatibility, EqualLogic, Compellent, Interop