How to check whether an old 8 Gb FC HBA and its SFP are compatible with a ProLiant DL380 Gen10
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The poster wanted to verify whether an HPE StorageWorks 81B 8 Gb Fibre Channel HBA (AP769-60001) fitted with an AJ716B SFP could be used in an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server (P02464-B21) and asked for a tool where part numbers can be entered to get a compatibility verdict. No error had occurred yet; the concern was about supported combinations of server, HBA and transceiver.
- Hardware: HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10, HPE StorageWorks 81B 8Gb FC HBA (AP769B)
- Transceivers: HPE AJ716B 8Gb SW FC SFP+
- Form factor: SFP+
Symptoms / messages:
unsupported configuration
legacy HBA on new server
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The DL380 Gen10 QuickSpecs do not list the ten-year-old 8 Gb HBA; Gen10 only supports selected 16/32 Gb FC HBAs, so the combination is unsupported even if it might work electrically.
Use the HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool; the AJ716B SFP itself is supported on the 81B HBA and on Brocade 8Gb SAN switches for BladeSystem.