In reply to R Hammel.

It's always been that way, as far as I know, that arrays come later than the adapters. *shrug* I suppose we'll have to ask the array vendors to chime in here if they wish to.

Regarding the 16G chassis, it's been a while so I went back and checked. According to FOS 7.0 Admin guide, 16G did, in fact, require a forklift upgrade.

For some reason, the screenshot won't upload. Gotta love wordpress, I guess.

Check out page 47. of the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide. You'll see that it's quite explicit:

"The core blades for each platform are not interchangeable or hot-swappable with the core blades for any other platform. If you try to interchange the blades they become faulty."