You are reading the matrix correctly and a follow-up within the Cisco Interop testing group would be required to see if undocumented testing has been done or still needs to be done on this version of Qlogic Switch code with MDS 3.0.2a. This request ...
You have turned on the trial period of the Fabric Manager Server feature which requires a license. If you do a on the switch you will most likly see something like FM_SERVER_PKG No - In use Grace 27D 16HThis is most likly turned on because yo...
With 8 FC ports on the host and 8 FC ports on the Array I would consider placing 4 host ports and 4 array ports in a different VSAN from the other 4 host ports and 4 array ports. Just another level of High availability you have with MDS switches.
I promote the design of the Management VSAN across all switches as Tim states, this is the most best practice I have seen in production MDS SANs.As for your experiment with the VSANs, I guess I do not see the complete picture you are drawing. VSAN's ...
