Known IBM i issues and limitations

There are known issues and limitations with the SAN Volume Controller and an IBM® i host.

Consider the following items when attaching to a host that runs the IBM i operating system:
  • When there are two disks in a remote copy relationship, do not access the read-only secondary VDisk from the IBM i host.
  • A maximum of 16 disk virtual LUNs and 16 optical virtual LUNs is supported for each IBM i virtual I/O client SCSI adapter.
  • IBM i multipathing for virtual SCSI disks is not supported.
  • SAN Volume Controller FlashCopy®, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror are supported for IBM i full-system replication only.
  • SAN Volume Controller space-efficient VDisks are supported for IBM i for use as FlashCopy targets only.
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