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Dell™ PowerVault™ MD32XX/MD36XX-Series Storage Array Support Matrix
Changes in Version A09 ........................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 5
Dell PowerVault MD-Series Storage Array Rules .................................................................................. 6
Default IPv4 settings for the Management Ports on the MD Series Storage Arrays ..................... 10
Default IPv4 settings for the iSCSI Ports on MD36x0i array ............................................................. 11
Default IPv4 settings for the iSCSI Ports on MD32x0i array ............................................................. 11
Supported RAID Controller Firmware and NVSRAM .......................................................................... 11
Supported SAS Host Bus Adapters ........................................................................................................ 12
Supported iSCSI Software Initiators ...................................................................................................... 13
Supported Protocol Offload (TOE / iSCSI) Adapters .......................................................................... 13
Fibre Channel SFP+ Transceiver Support ............................................................................................ 13
Supported Physical Disks ........................................................................................................................ 14
Supported Expansion Enclosures .......................................................................................................... 17
Supported Management Software ........................................................................................................ 18
Supported Operating Systems .............................................................................................................. 20
Windows ODX Support ...........................................................................................................................22
ALUA Support on Supported Host Operating Systems .....................................................................22
Supported Device Mapper Software .....................................................................................................22
Supported Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters ...................................................................................... 23
Required Timeout Settings for Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters .................................................. 24
Supported Fibre Channel Switches....................................................................................................... 25
Supported Dell M1000e Fibre Channel IOMs ..................................................................................... 27
Tested Brocade, Cisco and Qlogic Fibre Channel Routers ............................................................. 28
