IBM System storage DS6000 Series, Attachment Manual

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See the Interoperability Matrix at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/interop.html for details about the
release level for your operating system.
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You must install the storage unit by using the procedures in the IBM TotalStorage
DS6000 Installation, Troubleshooting, and Recovery Guide .
Fibre-channel Tru64 UNIX attachment considerations
This section lists the attachment considerations when attaching a storage unit to an
HP AlphaServer Tru64 UNIX host system.
Table 2 lists the maximum number of adapters you can have for an AlphaServer.
Note: For a list of open systems hosts, operating systems, adapters and switches
that IBM supports, see the Interoperability Matrix at
http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/interop.html.
Table 2. Maximum number of adapters you can use for an AlphaServer
AlphaServer name Maximum number of adapters
800 2
1200 4
2100 4
4000, 4000a 4
4100 4
8200, 8400 8
DS10, DS20, DS20E 2
ES40, ES45, ES47 4
GS60, GS60E, GS140 8
GS80, GS160, GS320 8
Supporting the AlphaServer Console for Tru64 UNIX
The following sections describe how to support the AlphaServer Console for Tru64
UNIX when you are attaching to a storage unit with fibre-channel adapters.
Supported microcode levels for the HP Tru64 UNIX host system
This topic lists the supported storage unit microcode levels when you attach to an
HP AlphaServer Tru64 UNIX host system.
Support for the AlphaServer console that recognizes the storage unit LUNs with
fibre is available for the current version of the storage unit that is LMC. To
determine which level of LMC is running on the storage unit, type telnet xxxxx ,
where xxxxx is the storage unit cluster name.
Figure 6 on page 29 shows an example of the output from the telnet command.
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