Hardware requirements for the subsystem device driver on a pSeries host running Linux

This section provides the list of hardware that you need to ensure that the Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) installs and operates successfully on a pSeries™ host running Linux.

You must have the following hardware to ensure that the SDD installs and operates successfully:
  • A pSeries host attached to a DS6000™ with one or more pairs of fibre-channel host adapters
    Notes:
    1. To use the I/O load balancing and failover features of the SDD, you must have a minimum of two paths. Go to http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/ for more information about the fibre-channel adapters that you can use on your Linux host system.
    2. Retrieve 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.
  • Subsystem LUNs that you created and configured for multiport access. Each LUN can have up to 32 SCSI disk instances, one for each path on the server.
  • A fibre optic cable to connect each fibre-channel adapter to a DS6000 port or to two switch ports subsequently zoned to DS6000 ports.
Parent topic: Installing the subsystem device driver on an IBM pSeries host running Linux
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