Table Of Contents - IBM System Storage DS4000 FC Installation And User Manual

Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
About this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Who should read this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
FAStT product renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
DS4000 Storage Subsystem installation tasks - General overview . . . . . . xvi
Getting information, help, and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
How this book is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Notices used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
Chapter 1. Preparing and installing the IBM System Storage DS4000 FC
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Fibre Channel defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Preinstallation procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installing the FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing the FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter device drivers and
Installing the FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing the QLogic SANsurfer Pro Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the QLogic SANsurfer Pro Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Updating the FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter BIOS code using the Support CD or a
Creating the FC 4Gbps PCI-X Adapter BIOS Update Utility diskette . . . . . 21
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Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Software service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Fire suppression systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
How to send your comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
4Gbps PCI-X Single/Dual Port HBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What you need for the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
updating the BIOS code
SANSurfer Pro Utility installation and system requirements . . . . . . . . 10
Installing on Windows and Novell NetWare platforms . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing on the Linux platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
GUI installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
QLogic SANsurfer Pro Utility overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SANsurfer Pro Utility features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SANsurfer Pro utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using SANsurfer Pro Update Option ROM Utility to update the BIOS . . . 14
Using the SANsurfer Pro Update NVRAM Utility to update the NVRAM
BIOS Update Utility diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the flasutil command prompt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Command-line options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the flasutil BIOS Update Utility menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Creating the diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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