IBM System storage DS6000 Series, Attachment Manual

Page: 110 / 298

For up to date information about the hosts for fibre-channel boot that IBM supports,
see the Interoperability Matrix at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/interop.html.
Supported levels of firmware for fibre-channel boot on IBM pSeries
hosts
This topic provides information about the supported levels of firmware for
fibre-channel boot on IBM pSeries hosts.
For information about the most up-to-date levels of firmware, go to
techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload/download.html.
Supported levels of fibre-channel adapter microcode on IBM pSeries
hosts
This topic provides supported levels of fibre-channel adapter microcode on IBM
pSeries hosts.
For more information about the required level of microcode for your adapter, go to
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload
Note: You must get the microcode from an IBM Web site.
Installation mechanisms that PSSP supports for boot install from
fibre-channel SAN DASD on IBM pSeries hosts
This topic provides installation mechanisms for boot install from fibre-channel SAN
DASD on IBM pSeries hosts.
You can direct a PSSP to do a boot install on an IBM RS/6000 SP node from the
following items:
v SAN_DISKID which is derived from the worldwide port name and LUN ID
This is the preferred mechanism.
v
PVID
v HDISK
Support for disk configurations for RS/6000 for a fibre-channel boot
install
This section lists the methods that you can use to do a disk configuration for the
IBM RS/6000 for a boot install from fibre-channel Storage Area Networks (SAN)
DASD.
v
Mirrored volume
v Alternate volume
v
Individual volume
Support for fibre-channel boot when a disk subsystem is attached on
IBM pSeries hosts
This section provides support information for fibre-channel boot when a disk
subsystem is attached on IBM pSeries hosts.
80
DS6000 Host Systems Attachment Guide