Host Server Operating System Support; Fibre Channel Defined - IBM TotalStorage DS4000 EXP100 Installation, User's, And Maintenance Manual

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Fibre Channel defined

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IBM TotalStorage DS4000 EXP100 Storage Expansion Enclosure: Installation, User's and Maintenance Guide
The EXP100 supports redundant, dual-loop configurations with the DS4000s and
other EXP100 units. External cables and small form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules
connect the controller to the expansion enclosure. EXP100s attached to supported
DS4000s can be used with storage area networks to satisfy the needs of various
fixed content, data reference applications that require large amounts of storage
capacity but do not have the high utilization and access characteristics satisfied by
Fibre Channel disk drive storage. The expansion enclosure provides continuous,
reliable service and uses hot-swap technology for easy replacement without the
need to shut down the system. Up to eight EXP100 units can be connected
together in a Fibre Channel loop, providing connections to a maximum of 112 hard
drives.
Important
There are three types of EXP100 Environmental Storage Canister (ESM) CRU
firmware - R1, R2, and R3. The current EXP100 release is shipped with R3
ESM firmware, which enables the support of the new 400 GB SATA drive
option (P/N 39M4570) 400 GB CRU/FRU (P/N 39M4575), and the new 250
GB SATA drive CRU/FRU (P/N 40K6837).
In addition to these firmware types, there are four different release levels of
DS4000 controller firmware/NVSRAM that are associated with the three
EXP100 ESM firmware types.
Before you install and configure your EXP100, read the detailed information
about these DS4000 firmware release levels and EXP100 ESM CRU firmware
types in "Software, hardware and firmware compatibility and upgrades" on
page 4. The information in that section is essential to successfully completing
an EXP100 installation.
On host servers that have mapped LUNs created in the DS4000, with EXP100
storage expansion enclosures, the following operating systems are supported:
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v Microsoft Windows
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v Microsoft Windows
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v Sun Solaris
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v IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3
v NetWare 6 and 6.5
v VMWare ESX Server 2.5.1
v RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 3 and 4
v SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and 9
See the latest DS4000 Storage Manager host software readme file and the IBM
DS4000 series products interoperability matrix at the following Web site for
additional host operating system support:
www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds4000/interop-matrix.html
Fibre Channel technology is outlined in the SCSI-3 Fibre Channel Protocol
(SCSI-FCP) standard. Fibre Channel is a high-speed data transport technology that
is used for mass storage and networking.
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