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ESX 6.x

Note ● For information on OEM-branded Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters from Broadcom and Cavium,
see www.broadcom.com or www.cavium.com and refer to the Cross Reference guides for the
equivalent part or model numbers. The following are the list of guides for reference:

– Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Reference Guides

– Qlogic Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Reference Guides

Table 1-3 provides details on Disk Storage support.

Table 1-3 Disk Storage Support Matrix

Note “MDS 9xxx” in the following table includes Cisco MDS 4Gb Fibre Channel Switch Module for IBM
BladeCenter and the Cisco MDS 4Gb and 8Gb Fabric Switches for c-Class BladeSystem.

Vendor Model FC/FCOE MDS Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

9xxx Nexus Nexus Nexus Nexus
9xxx 7xxx 6xxx 5xxx
IBM DS3512 FC x       x

DS4700 x       x

DS4800 x       x

DS5300 x       x

DS81xx x       x

DS83xx x       x

DS88xx x       x

DS87xx x       x

XIV x       x

FlashSystem 840 FC/FCoE x x x x x

FlashSystem 900 x x x x x

FlashSystem v840 x x x x x

FlashSystem v900 x x x x x

San Volume Controller (SVC) x x x x x

Storwize v7000 x x x x x

Storwize v5000 x x x x x

Storwize v3000 x x x x x

             

EMC VMAX Family FC/FCoE x x x x x

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DMX Family x x x x x

VNX and VNXe Family x x x x x

CX Family x x x x x

XtremIO FC x       x

DDR670 x       x

Vplex x       x

Unity x       x

PowerMAX x x     x

HDS Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) FC/FCoE x   x x x

Virtual Storage Platform x   x x x

G1000/G1500/F1500

Hitachi Uni ed Storage (HUS)150/130 FC x   x x x

Hitachi Uni ed Storage VM (HUS VM)   x   x x x

Virtual Storage Platform G800, G600,   x   x x x

G400, G200, F800, F600, F400
Virtual Storage Platform G900, G700,
G370, G350, F900, F700, F370, F350

HP P9500 FC/FCoE x x x x x

P6300/6500 x x x x x

3PAR StoreServ x x x x x
7000/8000/9000/10000/20000

P2000 G3 FC x       x

EVA4000/4100/6000/6100/80 00/8100 x       x

EVA4400 x       x

EVA6400/8400 x       x

MSA2000 x       x

XP 10K, 12K, 20K, 24K x       x

XP7 x       x

3PAR F200/400 x       x

3PAR T400/800 x       x

             

NetApp FAS2000 FCoE/FC x x x x x

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FAS3000 x x x x x

FAS6000 x x x x x

FAS8000 x x x x x

E2700 x       x

E5600 x       x

Pure FA-400 Series FC x     x x

Storage
FlashArray //M Series x     x x

FlashArray //X Series x x x

Table 1-4 provides details on Cisco UCS-B Series Fabric Interconnect support.

Table 1-4 Cisco UCS-B Series Fabric Interconnect Support Matrix

Vendor Model FC/FCoE Cisco Cisco Cisco HBA/CNA/Operating Systems and UCS-M
MDS Nexus Nexus Version
9xxx 5xxx/2xxx 7xxx
Series Series Series
Cisco Cisco UCS FC and NX- NX-OS NX- All HBA/CNA/Operating Systems and UCS
6200 Series FCoE OS 5.2(1)N1(2) OS releases listed in UCS HCL below are supp
Fabric 6.x and above 6.1(1) with Cisco MDS and Cisco Nexus products
Interconnects and from Table and http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/se
Cisco UCS above 1-1 for 5.x above uni ed-computing/uni ed-computing-
6300 Series from Nx-OS from system/products-technical-reference-list.h
Fabric Table 6.0(2)N1(1) Table
Interconnects 1-1 and above 1-1
from Table
1-1 for 6.x
NX-OS
7.0(1)N1(1)
and above
from Table
1-1 for 7.x

Table 1-5 provides details on NVMe over FC support matrix.

Table 1-5 NVMe over FC Support Matrix

Cisco MDS Vendor HBA Operating Cisco MDS Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus
and Nexus Model System 9000 Release 5000 Release 9000 Release
Switches Version Version Version
Cisco MDS Emulex LPe32000 Windows Server NX-OS 8.2(1) NX-OS NX-OS
9700 Series 2016 and above 7.3(3)N1(1) 7.0(3)I7(3) and
Cisco MDS RHEL 7.6 and above above
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