DS6000 host attachment

The DS6000™ storage unit provides a variety of host attachments so that you can consolidate storage capacity and workloads for open-systems hosts, S/390^® hosts, and eServer™ zSeries^® hosts.

• Apple Macintosh host attachment
  This section lists the general requirements, supported hosts, operating system and adapters for you to attach an Apple Macintosh host to a DS6000 using fibre-channel adapters.
• Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER host to a DS6000 using a fibre-channel Emulex adapter.
• HP AlphaServer Tru64 UNIX host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Hewlett-Packard AlphaServer Tru64 UNIX^® host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• HP AlphaServer OpenVMS host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Hewlett-Packard (HP) AlphaServer OpenVMS host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Hewlett-Packard Server (HP-UX) host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Hewlett-Packard (HP-UX) host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• IBM eServer iSeries host attachment
  This section describes how you attach an IBM^® eServer iSeries™ host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• 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.
• IBM eServer zSeries or IBM S/390 host attachment
  This section describes how you attach an S/390 or zSeries host system to a DS6000 with a fibre-channel or FICON adapter.
• IBM SAN File System host attachment
  This section describes the requirements that you need to verify before you to attach an IBM SAN File System metadata server to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• IBM SAN Volume Controller host attachment
  This section provides the requirements that you need to verify before you attach an IBM SAN Volume Controller host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• IBM NAS Gateway 500 host attachment
  This section describes how you attach an IBM NAS Gateway 500 host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Intel or AMD running Linux host attachment
  This section describes how you attach an Intel™ or AMD™ host running the Linux operating system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Intel running VMware ESX server host attachment
  This section describes how you attach an Intel host system running VMware ESX Server to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Intel or AMD running Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 host attachment
  This section describes how you attach an Intel or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) host system running Windows^® 2000 or 2003 to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Intel running Novell NetWare host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Novell NetWare host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Silicon Graphics host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Silicon Graphics (SGI) host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• Sun host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a Sun host system to a DS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• iSCSI Gateway host attachment
  This section describes how you attach a iSCSI Gateway host system to aDS6000 with fibre-channel adapters.
• General requirements for attaching a host system
  Before you can attach a DS6000 to a host system, you must review a list of the general requirements that pertains to all hosts. You must also review the specific host requirements described in the introduction to each specific host.
• Host configuration through the DS Storage Manager
  You can use the DS Storage Manager for host I/O attachment and I/O port configuration.
• Downloading and installing a host adapter driver
  This section describes the steps you can follow to download and install an AMCC/JNI, Emulex, HP, Netfinity, QLogic or Sun host adapter driver.
• Host attachment general considerations
  This section contains general conceptual overviews on key topics for host attachment.