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1 EMC Simple Support Matrix EMC VPLEX and GeoSynchrony x FEBRUAR 2016 P/N REV EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED AS IS. EMC CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF AN KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION, AND SPECIFICALL DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILIT OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use, copying, and distribution of any EMC software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. EMC 2, EMC, and the EMC logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United State and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. For the most up-to-date regulatory document for your product line, go to EMC Online Support ( The information in this ESSM is a configuration summary. For more detailed information on PowerPath interoperability available in the Path Management table, refer to the Advanced Query section on the ELN home page at

2 Note: The current target codes are 5.3 Patch 3 (5.3 Family) and Patch 3 (5.4 Family). Latest qualified is Patch 3. Table 1 EMC E-Lab qualified specific versions or ranges for EMC VPLEX VS2 / VS1 and GeoSynchrony v x (page 1 of 3) Operating Systems b, e, q, t, u EMC PowerPath am, av Path Management Volume Manager Cluster MPIO h, av, DMP aw LVM av, VxVM aw VCS/SFRAC/ VxCFS f, r, av, aw Oracle RAC az Other AIX and later c 5.3 s ak 5.1 SP1 RP1 AIX and later c, o AIX and later c, o c, bl (AIX) IBM VIOS (AIX) IBM VIOS , VIOS SP26 or later c, bl HP-UX 11iv2 HP-UX 11iv3 5.3 s SP2 ak, SP1 ak 5.1 SP1 5.1 SP , 5.1 SP1 ae RP1, , 5.3 SP1 P01 s SP2, SP1 am , SP1 IBM VIO Client i 7.1 with VIO Server 5.5 P ba, bh Linux: AX 3.0 series starting with SP2 ah, be 5.3 SP1 s SP1 P01 av Linux: AX 4.0 series 5.7 SP1-5.7 SP1 P02 av x, Linux: Citrix XenServer 6.x ap High ae j, P05 (Pvlinks) bf P05 bf 5.1 SP MP2 RP3 5.1 SP1, PowerHA (HACMP) 5.4 ad (L, M d ) f, l 5.1 SP1 PowerHA (HACMP) 5.4 ad (L, M d ) f GPFS w (L, M d ) PowerHA (HACMP) 5.4 ad (L, M d ) f, g GPFS w (L, M d ) ServiceGuard A A11.19 (L) ServiceGuard A A11.19 (L), A11.20 (L, M f, bi ) Availability f, i 5.1 SP SP1, g R1-R2 10g R2-11g R2 v & 12c R1 bb 11g R2 v & bb, bg 12c R1 10g R2-11g R1 10g R2-11g R2 & 12c R1 bb Linux: OL 4.0 starting with U8 ah, be 5.3 SP1 - s, 5.3 SP1 P02 av Linux: OL 5.0 with Oracle enhanced Red ac, be Hat Kernel starting with U3 5.3 s av Linux: OL 5.x UEK R1; R1 U1; R2 U1 ac, be 5.7 SP1-5.7 SP5 av 11g R1 - R2, & Linux: OL 5.x UEK R1 U2 &U3; R2 U2, U3, bb, bc 12c R1 U4,&U5 ac, be 5.7 SP1 P SP5, av f, p Linux: OL 6.x UEK R1; R1 U3; R2 U1, U2, 5.7 SP1-5.7 SP5, U3, U4, & U5 ac, be av ac, Linux: OL 6.x UEK R1 U1 and U2; R2 be Linux: OL 6.x UEK R3 ac 5.7 SP3-5.7 SP5, av 11g R1 - R2, & 12c R1 bb f, p Linux: OL 6.x UEK R3 U2 and U3 11g R2, & Linux: OL 7.x UEK R3 U2 and U3 ac av 12c R1 bb f, p Linux: OVM 2.2.x ah, be ; 3.x 5.3 SP1 HF2 s SP5, av High Availability f, i, be 11g R2, & ax, bb 12c R1 p, ax IBM PureScale DB bm

3 Table 1 EMC E-Lab qualified specific versions or ranges for EMC VPLEX VS2 / VS1 and GeoSynchrony v x (page 2 of 3) Operating Systems b, e, q, t, u EMC PowerPath am, av Path Management Volume Manager Cluster MPIO h, av, DMP aw LVM av, VxVM aw VCS/SFRAC/ VxCFS f, r, av, aw Oracle RAC az Other Linux: RHEL 4 series starting with 4.8 k, ah, be s. av SP1 P02 Linux: RHEL 5.3 k, o, ah, be 11g 5.3 s SP5, 6.0 av R1-R2 p Linux: RHEL 5 series starting with 5.4 k, o, be 5.3 SP1 s SP5, av 5.0 MP3 RP2-5.1 SP1, , 5.0 MP3 RP2-5.1 SP1, , RHCS and GFS/ GFS2 i, m f 5.0 MP3 RP2-5.1 SP1,, as, at Linux: RHEL 6.x series k, o 5.6 s SP5, 5.1 SP1, 5.1 SP1, 5.1 SP1, av , , HA and , GFS2 i, m at Linux: RHEL k, o av f 6.2, 6.2, Linux: RHEL 7.1 k, o av Linux: SLES 10 starting with SP3 k, ah, be 5.3 SP1 p1 s SP5, 6.0 av 5.1 SP , Linux: SLES 11 and its SP releases o 5.3 SP2 s SP5, , av 5.1 SP , , HAE f, i 5.1 SP , 5.1, g R1-R2 & bb, 12c R1 bd f, p, at 11g R2 & 12c R1 bb f, p, at 11g R1-R2 p 11g R1-R2, 12c bb p 4.3A20 4.3A20 Linux: SLES 12 o av Linux: SLES 12 SP1 o zlinux: RHEL 6.x Series zlinux: SLES 11 SP2 Microsoft Windows 2003 SP2/ R2 SP2 ah, be Microsoft Windows 2008 k, o Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 k, o Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 k, o Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 SP1 k, o Microsoft Hyper-V a n 5.1 n n SP2 5.1 SP1-5.1 SP1 - MSCS (L, M d, f, aq ) Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) (L, M d, f, g, aq, au, G aq, au ) WSFC (L, M d, f, aq, au, G aq, au ) 5.1 SP , 5.1 SP2 - Microsoft Windows Server 2012 ab, o WSFC 5.5 SP (L, M d, f, g, aq, au , Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 ab, o 5.7 SP G aq, au ) g R1-R2 ay 10g R2, 11g R1-R2 & 12c R1 bb at, ay 12c R1 ay, bb, bn, bo, bp 11g R2 ar, at, ay

4 Table 1 EMC E-Lab qualified specific versions or ranges for EMC VPLEX VS2 / VS1 and GeoSynchrony v x (page 3 of 3) Operating Systems b, e, q, t, u EMC PowerPath am, av Path Management Volume Manager Cluster MPIO h, av, DMP aw LVM av, VxVM aw VCS/SFRAC/ VxCFS f, r, av, aw Oracle RAC az Other Solaris 9 SPARC ah, be 5.3 bq P SP1 Solaris 10 SPARC al 5.3 bq P1 af 6.2.1, 5.1 SP1 - Solaris 10 x86 al 5.1 SP Solaris 11 SPARC al 5.1 SP1 5.1 SP1 5.1 SP , ai, aj, 3.3 5/11 (u1) bf ai, aj, 3.3 3/13 (u2) bf 5.1 SP1 (L) SP SP g R2-11g R1 10g R2, 11g R1-R2, 12c R1 bb 11g R2, 12c R1 bb P1 6.0 PR Solaris 11 x86 al 11g R2, 6.0 PR PR an, ao 12c R1 bb Solaris 11.1 SPARC al 11g R2, 5.5 P P1 ag 4.1 ai, aj, bf an, ao (L,M) 12c R1 bb Solaris 11.1 x86 al 6.0.3, , g R2, 12c R1 bb Solaris 11.2 SPARC al 5.5 P P ai, aj, bf g R2, 12c R1 bb Solaris 11.2 x86 al Solaris 11.3 SPARC al P P1 4.3 bf g R2, 12c R1 bb Solaris 11.3 x86 al k, z, ah, VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0 (vsphere) be, br PP/VE SP1 ESX (L) k, o, z, ah, VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 (vsphere) be br PP/VE 5.4 SP2 ESX (L, M d, f ) VMware ESXi 5.0 (vsphere) k, o, y, zbr PP/VE 5.7 aa, 5.7 P02 HF1 aa, 5.8, 5.9 SP1-5.9 SP1 P03 VMware ESXi 5.1 (vsphere) k, o, y, zbr PP/VE 5.7 P02 HF1 aa, 5.8, 5.9 SP1-5.9 SP1 P03 k, o, y, zbr, bt VMware ESXi 5.5 (vsphere) PP/VE 5.9, 5.9 SP1-5.9 SP1 P03 ESX (L, M d, f ) ESX (L, M d, f, g ) k, o, z, bj, VMware ESXi 6.0 (vsphere) bk br, bt PP/VE SP1 Legend: Blank = Not currently supported = Supported L = Host local cluster support M = Host stretched over Metro G = Host stretched over Geo Note: Refer to the following page for Table 1 footnotes. 4.2A00 bs, 4.3A20, 4.3A40 4.3A40 bs 4.3A40 bs

5 Table 1 Footnotes: a. Hyper-V parent partition Windows 2008/2012/2012 R2 Server, x64, CORE. Child partition as supported by Microsoft. b. Single host cross-connected across Metro is supported without cluster software. c. Shared storage pool functionality is supported with native MPIO on the AIX operating system or (AIX) IBM VIOS FP24-SP01 or later. For PowerPath 5.7 or later, this functionality begins with (AIX) IBM VIOS or later. d. For proper configuration, refer to Conditions for Stretched Host Cluster Support on VPLEX Metro White Paper, located at e. Standard file systems available with each platform that is supported can be found in the appropriate Host Connectivity Guide, located at f. Cross-connected hosts for Metro configurations are supported up to 1 ms RTT. For Veritas VCS/SFRAC/VxCFS, the minimum support is 5.1. In a cross-connect configuration, it is recommended to set "auto-resume" attribute on the consistency groups to true. g. Starting with VPLEX GeoSynchrony version 5.3, cross-connected hosts for Metro configurations are supported up to 5 ms RTT. h. If using DMP, the same minimum version for the entire Symantec software suite must be used. i. GeoSynchrony is the minimum version for support. j. Pvlinks is an HP-UX alternate pathing solution that does not support load balancing. Not supported with Oracle RAC. k. UCS servers require x64 OS and UCS 2.0 and later firmware and GeoSynchrony 5.0/5.0.1 and later. UCS servers with 1280 or1240 VICs are supported with UCS 2.0(2q) and later firmware and GeoSynchrony 5.0/5.0.1 and later. l. Cross-connect supported with PowerPath only. m. Supported with RHEL 5.5. For proper configuration, refer to the EMC VPLEX with Quantum Stornext White Paper, located at vplex-geo-with-quantum-stornext.pdf. n. Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows Device Driver Installation (DDI) Package Q required. o. For EMC XtremCache software operating system interoperability, refer to the ESM, Only VPLEX Metro and VPLEX Local are supported. p. For native multipath support on Linux, EMC recommends changing Linux MPIO kernel parameter no_path_retry=15 (default is 5). q. VPLEX supports booting from local volumes. Boot from distributed volumes is supported on AIX 5.3/ 6.1/7.1, HP-UX 11iv2 and 11iv3, Linux Citrix XenServer 6.x, Linux RHEL 6.x and Linux RHEL 7.x series, Linux SLES 11 and later (but not OVM or OL), Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Solaris 10 SPARC, and VMware ESX 5.0/5.1/5.5 Operating Systems. r. Veritas SFRAC and VxCFS is supported with PowerPath or VxVM DMP 5.1 or higher. s. This PowerPath version has reached End-of-Life (EOL). For extended support contact PowerPath Engineering or t. RecoverPoint v3.5 and later is supported with VPLEX v5.1 and later. CDP, CLR, and CRR solutions are supported with VPLEX Local and Metro only. For RecoverPoint protection on VPLEX Metro, RPAs can only be attached to any one VPLEX cluster and can only protect VPLEX local and distributed virtual volumes. RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is not supported with VPLEX Metro. u. XEN and KVM are supported by the Linux operating system vendors SuSE (SLES) and Red Hat (RHEL) and in accordance to the configurations listed in this ESSM. All guest operating systems and services supported by these vendors are supported. PowerPath is not currently supported with KVM. v. IBM GPFS filesystem is supported with Oracle 11g R2 RA and 12c R1 RAC. Refer to the native cluster column for the GPFS supported versions. w. GPFS fast failover feature with SCSI-3 persistent reserves is not supported. GPFS requires node quorum or node quorum with tie breaker disks. SCSI-3 PR support requires PowerPath 5.5 P04 and later. x. All guest operating systems and features that Citrix support are supported by VPLEX such as XenMotion, XenHA, and XenDesktop. y. For VPLEX implementations with VMware and GeoSynchrony 5.1, use GeoSynchrony Patch 2 or higher; refer to EMC Knowledgebase solution emc VMware FT 5.0 can be used with Metro up to 1ms RTT latency. For VMware VMotion, the maximum roundtrip latency between VPLEX Metro clusters is 10ms RTT with GeoSynchrony 5.1 or later. VMware HA support remains at 5ms RTT. For more information, refer to Using VMware Fault Tolerance and High Availability with VPLEX Metro HA for Ultimate Availability White Paper, located at and the VMware vsphere 5 ESSM, at For VPLEX Metro 5.3 and later releases, VMware FT and VMware HA 5.5 and later can be used up to 5ms RTT for cross-connect and 10ms RTT for stretched configurations. z. Windows clusters running as a guest OS in a VMware environment on RDM devices with MPIO is not supported. VMware (ESX/ESXi) servers hosting the cluster node VMs must have PowerPath/VE installed. aa. Before upgrading to vsphere 5.1, refer to EMC Knowledgebase articles emc and emc ab. Support for Windows 2012 starts with VPLEX 5.1 Patch 3. ac. For OL with Red Hat stock kernel, refer to the equivalent Red Hat RHEL configuration for supported configurations (for example, OL 5.0 U8 = RHEL 5.8). ad. HACMP 5.4 has reached End-of-Life (EOL). ae. Refer to the AIX MPIO minimum requirements in the EMC Host Connectivity Guide for IBM AIX. af. Requires S10u11 (or S10u11_x86) with the following patches: , , and for SPARC platform or , , and for x86 platform. ag. Requires S11.1 (or S11.1_x86) with SRU5.5. ah. This operating system is currently EOL. All corresponding configurations are frozen. It may no longer be publicly supported by the operating system vendor and will require an extended support contract from the operating system vendor in order for the configuration listed in the ESSM to be supported by EMC. It is highly recommended the customer upgrade the server to an ESSMsupported configuration or install it as a virtual machine on an EMC-approved virtualization hypervisor. ai. Supports MPxIO only. aj. Refer to the EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Oracle Solaris, EMC VPLEX chapter, located at for details and other restrictions. ak. Before performing any non-disruptive upgrades, refer to al. Supports ZFS and other Solaris support file systems. am. EMC PowerPath Encryption is supported with VPLEX. an. Oracle patch is needed to support ADVM/ACFS. ao. Oracle RAC is supported in LDOM with Solaris 11.1 SPARC installed in guest domain. ap. For encapsulation, apply Citrix Hot Fix XS62E003 to XenCenter aq. Cluster Validation storage tests may not discover distributed devices. For details, refer to the VPLEX section of the EMC Windows Host Connectivity Guide and to the Microsoft KB located at ar. Only Oracle version is supported. as. VCS is not supported on RHEL 5.3/5.4. Support begins with RHEL 5 update 5 and later. at. Refer to the EMC Support Matrix, located at for XtremCache support. The listed XtremCache configuration in the ESM is supported with VPLEX. au. MPIO is not supported with failover clusters when stretched or cross-connected. PowerPath must be used.see Articles tab, and search ETA av. Version and kernel specific. Consult relevant product release notes for details. aw. Beginning with the Symantec 6.1 release, Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions product names are rebranded. Product was then rebranded to. For more information, refer to ax. Refer to for Oracle RAC support on Virtualization Technologies. ay. In Oracle RAC configuration, set the css miscount attribute to more than 70 seconds. Refer to Doc ID at for steps to change the values. az. For normal or high redundancy ASM diskgroup set _asm_hbeatiowait=200(default = 15). Refer Doc ID available on for further information. ba. EMC recommends using the latest PTF level for i7.1. bb. Oracle 12c Flex Cluster not supported. Refer to Oracle Enhancement Request EMC recommends selecting the Standard Cluster option during Oracle 12c R1 RAC installation. bc. Support begins with Oracle Linux 5.6 or later. bd. Support begins with Red Hat Linux 5.6 or later. be. Starting with GeoSynchrony 5.3, some of these OS versions are EOL and no longer qualified. Therefore, before upgrading to GeoSynchrony 5.3 or later, the customer must upgrade the OS to a newer, supported version. bf. Not supported in environments where a host is cross-connected between two remote VPLEX clusters. See click Articles tab, and search ETA bg. Cross-Connection is supported with both PowerPath and MPIO. bh. Only VSCSI devices are supported. bi. Refer to the EMC VPLEX Metro with HP ServiceGuard A11.20 White Paper, located at bj. Supported with GeoSynchrony and higher. vvol is not supported. bk. VMware FT 6.0 can be used with VPLEX Metro up to 10ms RTT latency. For VMware VMotion, the maximum roundtrip latency between VPLEX Metro clusters is 10ms RTT. bl. For supported AIX client versions, refer to AIX 5300, AIX 6100, and AIX bm. MPIO only. Refer to EMC VPLEX with IBM DB2 Purescale White Paper at for configuration instructions. bn. Hyper-V server 2012 R2 is supported. bo. Oracle RAC is supported. bp. Cross-connect is mandatory for Metro configuration. bq. PowerPath 5.3.x for Solaris reached EOSL 1/31/2015. An RPQ is required for extended support of PowerPath 5.3.x for Solaris. It is highly recommended that you upgrade OS to Solaris 10 or later and PowerPath to 5.5 or later. br. All released updates of VMware ESX/ESXi versions are supported unless specified by another footnote. Please contact the server vendor for the update level required for a specific server. bs. Support with PowerPath 5.5 P01 only. bt. For XtremIO arrays, thin volumes and VAAI UNMAP support requires VPLEX 5.5 SP1. This allows thin volumes for VPLEX Local. Support for distributed, mirrored volumes and VPLEX Metro is not included in this release.

6 Components Switches All FC SAN switches (2 Gb/s or greater) from EMC Connectrix, Brocade, Cisco, and QLogic. Refer to the E-Lab Navigator (ELN) at Switched Fabric Topology Parameters table for switch interoperability support. All EMC-approved 10 GbE FCoE switches from Brocade and Cisco for host connectivity. Only Cisco FCoE switches can be used to connect VPLEX storage arrays. Refer to the ELN for specific models and firmware support. Refer to the Networking for Storage Virtualization and EMC RecoverPoint TechBook, located at for implementation information. Hosts Servers/Adapters All Fibre Channel HBAs from Emulex and QLogic (2 Gb/s or greater) and Brocade (8 Gb/s or greater), including vendor rebranded versions. Solaris requires an RPQ when using any Brocade HBA. All 10 Gb/s Emulex, QLogic, Dell based on QLogic BCM 578xx t, Brocade, Cisco, and Intel CNAs a (10GbE NICs that support FCoE). Any EMC or vendor-supplied OS-approved driver/firmware/bios is allowed. EMC recommends using latest E-Lab Navigator listed driver/firmware/bios versions. Refer to the ESM, located at and use EMC VMAX or EMC VNX, along with the desired HBA model and operating system, as the search criteria to find the latest supported driver/firmware/bios versions. Adapters must support link speed compatible with switch (fabric) or array (direct connect). All host systems are supported where the host and OS vendors allow the host/os/adapter combination. If systems meet the criteria in this ESSM, and the ELN connectivity validations in referenced footnotes are adhered to, then no RPQ is required. VPLEX does not support host direct connections and requires HBAs to be connected to supported fabric switches. Distance Extension b Refer to the EMC Support Matrix, Distance Extension Solution table at regarding WDM/DWDM /FC support for VPLEX Metro and the table header regarding VPLEX Geo. FCIP EMC Connectrix/Brocade models: MP-7800B/7800; ED-48000B/48000, MP-7840B/7840; ED-DCX-B/DCX; and ED-DCX-4S-B/DCX-4S. Cisco models: MDS9250i, MDS 9222i,MDS 95xx with 18/4-port MSM blade or 16-port SSN blade. FCIP is currently supported only on VPLEX Metro. HCL (Hot Code Load) with VPLEX is supported only with the specific FOS versions listed for Connectrix MP-7840B in the EMC Support Matrix VPLEX short-write was introduced in VPLEX 5.2 SP1. The feature is not compatible with FCIP Fast Write (Brocade) and FCIP Write Acceleration (Cisco). This feature must be disabled on the FCIP switches to ensure that VPLEX works properly. Cisco IVR and Brocade FCR are not supported for VPLEX WANcom (DWDM and FCIP). EMC Storage Systems i EMC XtremIO m, q v2.2.1 or later. EMC VMAX 400K, 200K, 100K with EMC HPERMAX OS 5977 p, r. EMC VMAX 40K, VMAX 20K, and VMAX 10K xxx987xxxx with EMC Enginuity 5876 c. EMC Symmetrix DMX-3/DMX-4, VMAX, VMAX 10K xxx959xxxx, and VMAXe (Enginuity 5773, 5876) c. EMC VNX5200/5400/5600/5800/7600/8000 (FLARE R33); (Failover mode 1 c and 4 l ). EMC VNX5100/5300/5500/5700/7500 (FLARE R31, R32); (Failover mode 1 c and 4 l ). EMC VNX-F 5000/7000 (FLARE R33); (Failover mode 1 c and 4 l ). EMC VNX OE for Block v31, v32 (Failover mode 1 c and 4 l ). EMC VNXe3200 OE v3.0 v. EMC CLARiiON CX4 (FLARE R30); (Failover mode 1 c and 4). Third-Party Arrays i Dell Compellent SC30/40 (6.2.2 and later) o. Eternus DX8700 S2 (V10L25 and later), DX8x00, 8000 M1200/M2200; DX440/DX410 (V20L71 and later)), 4000M600 (V20L71 and later); DX440 S2/DX410 S2 (V10L20 and later), DX80/DX90 (V20L66 and later), DX80 S2/DX90 S2 (V10L25 and later) d. HDS VSP, HDS USP-V/VM, HDS USP, HDS AMS2xxx, HUS 1xx(firmware 0937/A and later) n, HUS VM ( /00 and later), HDS VSP G1000 ( and later) u. HP P9500, HP XP 48/128/512/1K/10K/12K/20K/24K; HP EVA 4/5/6/8xxx (5.1 and later); HP 3PAR E, T j,v j,f k,p k (StoreServ 7xxx / 1xxxx series), and S k Series (3.1.1 and later); HP EVA P6xxx (XCS v and later) h. IBM DS8xxx, IBM DS4800 e, IBM DS4700 f, IBM DS5020 ( and later) k, IBM DS5100 e, IBM DS 5300 e, IBM XIV (firmware a and later), IBM SVC d (firmware and later), IBM Storwize v7000/5000/37xx (6.3.x and later) g ; IBM N series k (Data ONTAP and later; 7- Mode and implicit ALUA mode RC1 Cluster-mode and later); IBM Flash 840/900 (firmware and later); IBM Flash v840/9000 (firmware and later). SUN Storage 99xx, NetApp FAS/V 25xx/3xxx/6xxx/8xxx d (Data ONTAP and later; 7-Mode and implicit ALUA mode RC1 Cluster-mode and later). Violin Memory v3xxx/v6xxx series (G5.2 and later) WAN Optimization Silver Peak NX-8700 and NX Silver Peak firmware v or later is required. Supported on VPLEX Geo only. For deployment configuration information, refer to Deploying Silver Peak with EMC VPLEX White Paper located at VPLEX Witness EMC Rapidpath EMC MetroPoint VPLEX Witness can be installed on ESX 4.0, ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.0 / 5.1 / 5.5 and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT). However, VPLEX Witness can not be installed on ESXi 4.0/4.1. For additional requirements and configurations instructions, refer to the VPLEX Procedure Generator located at EMC Rapidpath v4.0 or later is required. Rapidpath is supported only on VPLEX Geo and VPLEX Metro over IP. For information regarding the installation and configuration of Rapidpath with VPLEX, refer to the product documentation located at EMC MetroPoint functionality requires the following software requirements: RPAs must be running software version or later. VPLEX must be running software version or later. Note: MetroPoint is not supported with VPLEX Geo. Note: Remote site in MetroPoint configuration support only VMAX VMAX 40K, VMAX 20K, VMAX 10K xxx987xxxx, VNX5200/5400/5600/5800/7600/ 8000, VNX5100/5300/5500/5700/7500, and VPLEX (Local/Metro).

7 Components (continued) Non- Cluster File System Linux: RHEL 5 series starting with 5.4, StorNext s (L, M, G). Microsoft Windows 2008, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2, 2008 R2 SP1, and Hyper-V - Sanbolic Melio 3.1. Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 - Sanbolic Melio 5.0. L = Host local cluster support M = Host stretched over Metro G = Host stretched over Geo Components footnotes a. UCS servers require x64 OS and USC 2.0 firmware and GeoSynchrony 5.0/ b. The maximum roundtrip latency between VPLEX Metro clusters is 5ms RTT and between VPLEX Geo clusters is 50ms RT. Starting with VPLEX GeoSynchrony version 5.3, the maximum round trip latency between metro clusters is supported up to 10ms RTT for following operating systems: ESXi 5.5 and later, Windows 2008/ 2012 /R2 (PP only), AIX 7.1(Power HA and PP), and Solaris OSs (VCS 6.0 and later w/ DMP/PP). c. Array-based RecoverPoint splitter (CRR, CDP, and CLR) is only supported on VPLEX Local and Metro. d. GeoSynchrony is the minimum version for support. e. GeoSynchrony v is the minimum version for support. f. GeoSynchrony v5.1 is the minimum version for support. g. GeoSynchrony v5.1 patch 1 is the minimum version for support. h. GeoSynchrony v5.1 patch 2 is the minimum version for support. i. Metavolume devices cannot be provisioned as thin devices unless fully allocated. j. GeoSynchrony v5.2 is the minimum version for support. k. GeoSynchrony v5.2 patch 1 is the minimum version for support. l. GeoSynchrony v5.2 SP1 is the minimum version for support. m. For VPLEX support, GeoSynchrony P3 or later is required. For additional requirements and configurations instructions, refer to the VPLEX Procedure Generator located at n. GeoSynchrony v5.2.1 is the minimum version for support. o. GeoSynchrony v5.3 is the minimum version for support. p. VIAS with VMAX3 is not supported with VPLEX. q. VIAS with XtremIO is not supported. r. GeoSynchrony v5.3 P1 is the minimum version for support. s. Supported with RHEL 5.5. For proper configuration, refer to the EMC VPLEX with Quantum Stornext White Paper, located at software/white-papers/h10573-vplex-geo-with-quantum-stornext.pdf. t. VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 requires driver bnx2fc v50.7 or later. ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 requires driver bnx2fc v55.7 or later. u. GeoSynchrony v5.4.1 is the minimum version for support. v. VIAS with VNXe3200 is not supported with VPLEX. Revision Date Changes to VPLEX VS1/VS2 and GeoSynchrony v x 99 2/5/2016 In AIX 6.100, 7100, and IBM VIOS rows, updated PowerPath versions. Added new Linux: SLES 12 SP1 row. Added Solaris 11.3 rows and updated versions as needed in all Solaris rows. Added new support footnote bt to VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 rows and updated PowerPath versions.

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