Supported Operating Systems; Clustering Support - IBM Midrange System DS4000 Series Hardware Manual

4.4.2 Supported operating systems

The following are supported operating systems at the time of publication:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
Novell SUSE SLES 9 SP4
Novell SUSE SLES 10 SP1
VMware ESX 3.5 U2 (restrictions apply)
AIX 5L V5.1, V5.2, and V5.3, and V6.1
IBM i
– Via VIOS guest client: DS4700, DS5020, DS5100, and DS5300
– Native IBM i attach: DS5100 and DS5300
VIOS 1.5.2 and 2.1.1
HP-UX 11iv2 (11.23) and HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31)
Note: Make sure to check the System Storage Interoperation Center found at the following
Web site for the current supported operating systems and clustering environments:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/config/ssic/index.jsp

4.4.3 Clustering support

Supported clustering services are:
IBM PowerHA™ (formerly HACMP)
Microsoft Cluster Services
Novell Cluster Services
Linux RHEL Native Cluster
Sun Cluster
Steeleye: Lifekeeper 5.3, 6.0 U1
HP MC/Service Guard 11.18.00
Symantec VERITAS Cluster
VMware Cluster Service
4.4.4 Multipathing
IBM offers different multipath drivers that you can use with your DS5000 storage subsystem.
Only one of these drivers is required. Each driver offers multipath support, I/O load balancing,
and automatic path failover.
The multipath driver is a proxy for the real, physical-level HBA drivers. Each multipath driver
hides from the application the fact that there are redundant connections by creating a virtual
device. The application uses this virtual device, and the multipath driver will connect the
application to the correct physical path.
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