Skip to Content Sun and Oracle Channel Sun How to Buy Log In United States [Change] English

Sun Cluster Open Storage Program

Sun Cluster and IBM Systems Storage N series (Fibre Channel) Interoperability Matrix

Servers¹	Operating System	Cluster Software⁹	Max # Nodes	VM Software	Multi-Path Driver	FC HBA	SAN Switches^4, 8	N Series Storage Systems
Sun Fire V210 V240 V250 280R V440 V480 V490 V880 V890 V1280 E2900 4800 E4900 6800 E6900 12K 15K E20k E25k 3x00-6x00² 10K² T1000 T2000 Sun Netra 210 240 440 1290 T2000 T5220	Solaris 9⁵ Solaris 10	SC 3.1 9/2004 SC 3.1 8/2005¹² SC 3.2⁵	8	Solaris SVM VxVM 4.1 MP1, 5.0 MP1 RP3⁵	SAN 4.4.12 SAN 4.4.13 - 4.4.14³ SAN driver bundled in OS for Solaris 10	Sun 6727A 6767A (SG-XPCI1FC-QF2) 6768A (SG-XPCI2FC-QF2) Sun 6799A RoHS compliant HBAs: SG-XPCI1FC-QL2 SG-XPCI2FC-QF2-Z SG-XPCI1FC-EM2 SG-XPCI2FC-EM2 SG-XPCI1FC-EM4-Z SG-XPCI2FC-EM4-Z SG-XPCI1FC-QF4 SG-XPCI2FC-QF4 "Native" HBAs supported: Qlogic¹¹ Emulex¹¹	Brocade McData Qlogic Sun	N3700 N3000 Series N5000 Series N7000 Series Data ONTAP 7.2¹⁰
Sun Fire V215 V245 V445 Sparc Enterprise M4000¹³ M5000¹³ M8000¹³ M9000-32¹³ M9000-64¹³ T1000 T2000 T5120 T5140 T5220 T5240	Solaris 10	SC 3.1 8/2005 SC 3.2⁵	8	Solaris SVM VxVM 4.1 MP1, 5.0 MP1 RP3⁵	SAN driver bundled in OS for Solaris 10	SG-XPCI1FC-EM2 SG-XPCI2FC-EM2 SG-XPCIE1FC-EM4 SG-XPCIE2FC-EM4 SG-XPCI1FC-EM4-Z SG-XPCI2FC-EM4-Z SG-XPCI1FC-QF4 SG-XPCI2FC-QF4 SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4 SG-XPCIE2FC-QF4 SG-XPCI1FC-QL2 SG-XPCI2FC-QF2-Z "Native" HBAs supported: Qlogic¹¹ Emulex¹¹	Same as above	Same as above
Sun Fire V20Z V40Z X2100 M2 X2200 M2 X4100 X4100 M2 X4200 X4200 M2 X4600 X4600 M2 X4140 X4240 X4440 X4150 X4450 Sun Blade x8400 x8420 x8440 x8450 Sun Netra X4200 M2	Solaris 10 1/06 or later X86 (64 bit)	SC 3.1 8/2005 SC 3.2⁵	4	Solaris SVM	SAN driver bundled in OS for Solaris 10	SG-XPCI1FC-QL2 SG-XPCI2FC-QF2 SG-XPCI2FC-QF2-Z SG-XPCI1FC-EM2 SG-XPCI2FC-EM2 SG-XPCI1FC-EM4 SG-XPCI2FC-EM4 SG-XPCI1FC-EM4-Z SG-XPCI2FC-EM4-Z SG-XPCIE1FC-EM4 SG-XPCIE2FC-EM4 SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4 SG-XPCIE2FC-QF4 SG-XPCI1FC-QF4 SG-XPCI2FC-QF4 SG-XPCIE2FC-EB4-Z SG-XPCIE2FC-QB4-Z SG-XPCIE20FC-NEM-Z "Native" HBAs supported: Qlogic¹¹ Emulex¹¹	Same as above	Same as above

¹ See the Sun System Handbook for minimum supported Solaris Operating System versions, HBAs and other supported options for list servers.

² PCI configs only

³ SAN 4.4.13 and SAN 4.4.14 are supported on Solaris 9 only.

⁴ For the latest Brocade, McData, Qlogic and Sun switch offerings: http://www.sun.com/storagetek/networking.jsp

⁵ SC 3.2 Solaris support:
N series does not support Solaris 9.
SC 3.2 support: Solaris 10 11/06 (Update 3) + patches and Solaris 10 8/07 (Update 4).
Also requires the following Sun Cluster Patches and higher, available on SunSolve.
Solaris 10 Sparc: 126106-01
Solaris 10 x86: 126107-01
IF using VxVM, SC 3.2 requires VxVM 5.0 MP1/RP3, download Patch 122058-09 available on SunSolve.

⁶ Intentionally left blank

⁷ Intentionally left blank

⁸ For supported Data ONTAP and switch versions, please see the N series SAN Interoperability matrix (Solaris tab) at: http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/network/interophome.html

⁹ Solaris 10 supported patch level for Sun Cluster 3.1 is 120500-08 or lower.

¹⁰ When Data ONTAP 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 is installed, N series systems are 'only' supported in greater than (2) node configurations with Sun Cluster 3.1. This requirement does not apply with Data ONTAP 7.2.3 and higher.

¹¹ "Native" HBAs now supported by Solaris: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/index.html

¹² When enabling Solaris Cluster version 3.1 8/2005 (Update 4) on a device which supports ALUA and uses RTPG (Report Target Port Group) commands, SCSI-2 Reserve/Release does not function properly and is not supported. Outcome is that Quorum is inaccessible to the Cluster. Recommendation is to enable (2) node PGR-3 enabled with Solaris Cluster 3.2.

¹³ For Emulex 2.30j driver requirements, please go to SunSolve for 120222-27 patch.