IBM eServer pSeries or IBM RS/6000 host attachment

This section describes how you attach an IBM^® eServer pSeries™ or IBM RS/6000^® host system to a DS6000™ with fibre-channel adapters.

Before you attach a host, review the following information:

The General requirements for attaching a host system
The DS6000 Interoperability Matrix at http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/ for the most current information and details for hosts, operating systems, adapters, and switches
A list of supported host bus adapters (HBAs), firmware, and device driver information for your host system and host adapter at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/config/hba/index.wss
The IBM® System Storage™ Multipath Subsystem Device Driver User's Guide at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sdd.

Notes:

Ensure that you can access the installation script files. These files are on the CD that you receive with the storage unit.
Ensure that you have 1 MB minimum of available hard disk space to install the AIX^® host attachment package.
The SDD supports RS/6000 and pSeries host systems in a clustering environment. To have failover protection on an open system, SDD requires a minimum of two paths, and SDD allows a maximum of 32 paths.
The storage unit supports eServer BladeCenter JS20 with blade 8842 in an IBM pSeries, 32-bit environment.
For an RS/6000 or pSeries host system, you can use either the switched fabric or arbitrated loop topology. The RS/6000 and pSeries host systems do not support more than one host bus adapter on the loop.

Installing the host attachment package on IBM pSeries AIX hosts from the CDROM
This section provides instructions for installing the host attachment package on IBM pSeries AIX hosts from the CDROM.
Attaching a pSeries or RS/6000 host
This section provides instructions, requirements, and considerations for attaching an RS/6000 or pSeries host system to a storage unit with fibre-channel adapters.
Support for fibre-channel boot on a pSeries host
The following sections describe the prerequisites, considerations, installation mechanisms, and disk configuration types for a fibre-channel boot operation on a pSeries host.
Attaching to multiple RS/6000 or pSeries hosts without a HACMP host
This section provides the instructions for attaching one or two storage units to multiple host systems without the high availability cluster multi-processing (HACMP™) clustering solution.
Installing the subsystem device driver on an IBM pSeries host running Linux
This section describes considerations and requirements for installing the Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) on an IBM pSeries host running Linux. This section also provides a link for you to use to locate the most current driver and documentation.
Locating the WWPN for an IBM eServer pSeries or an RS/6000 host
Complete this task to locate the WWPN for an IBM pSeries or RS/6000 host.
Installing the host attachment package on IBM pSeries AIX hosts from the SDD Web site
This section provides instructions for installing the host attachment package on IBM pSeries AIX hosts from the IBM Multipathing Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) Web site.

Parent topic: DS6000 host attachment

Related information

General requirements for attaching a host system