Chapter 19. Attaching To A Windows 2000 Host; Attaching With Fibre-Channel Adapters; Supported Fibre-Channel Adapters For Windows 2000; Fibre-Channel Attachment Requirements For The Windows 2000 Host System - IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Attachment Manual

Chapter 19. Attaching to a Windows 2000 host

This chapter provides instructions, requirements and considerations for attaching a
Windows 2000 host system to a storage unit.

Attaching with fibre-channel adapters

This section provides information for attaching a storage unit to a Windows 2000
host system with fibre-channel adapters. It also describes how to install, download
and configure the adapter cards.

Supported fibre-channel adapters for Windows 2000

This section lists the supported fibre-channel adapters for the Windows 2000 host
system.
The following adapters are supported for the Windows 2000 host System:
v Emulex LP9002L adapter card
v Emulex LP9002DC adapter card
v Emulex LP9402DC adapter card
v Emulex LP9802 adapter card
v Emulex LP10000 adapter card
v Emulex LP10000DC adapter card
v Netfinity adapter card
v QLogic QLA2310FL adapter card
v QLogic QLA2340FL adapter card
v QLogic QLA2342FL adapter card
The storage unit supports eServer BladeCenter HS20 with blades 8678, 8832, and
8839 in a Windows 2000, 32-bit environment.
The storage unit supports both direct and fabric attachment to the eServer
BladeCenter JS20 when operating with AIX 5.2H, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0,
or Linux SLES 8 or 9.
Note: For more information about BladeCenter HS20 and BladeCenter JS20 and
Fibre-channel attachment requirements for the Windows 2000 host
system
This section lists the requirements for attaching the storage unit to your host
system.
Review the following attachment requirements before attaching with fibre-channel
adapters:
v Check the LUN limitations for your host system.
v Ensure that you can reference the documentation for your host system and the
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for a list of open-systems hosts, operating systems, adapters and switches
that IBM supports, see the Interoperability Matrix at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/interop.html.
IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Information Center that is integrated with the IBM
TotalStorage DS Storage Manager.
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