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278 DS6000 Series: Concepts and Architecture
QLogic Corporation
The Qlogic web site can be found at:
http://www.qlogic.com
QLogic maintains a page that lists all the HBAs, drivers, and firmware versions that are
supported for attachment to IBM storage systems:
http://www.qlogic.com/support/oem_detail_all.asp?oemid=22
Emulex Corporation
The Emulex home page is:
http://www.emulex.com
They also have a page with content specific to IBM storage systems:
http://www.emulex.com/ts/docoem/framibm.htm
JNI / AMCC
AMCC took over the former JNI, but still markets FC HBAs under the JNI brand name. JNI
HBAs are supported for DS6000 attachment to Sun systems. The home page is:
http://www.amcc.com
Their IBM storage specific support page is:
http://www.jni.com/OEM/oem.cfm?ID=4
Atto
Atto supplies HBAs which IBM supports for Apple Macintosh attachment to the DS6000. Their
home page is:
http://www.attotech.com
They have no IBM storage specific page. Their support page is:
http://www.attotech.com/support.html
Downloading drivers and utilities for their HBAs requires registration.
Platform and operating system vendors’ pages
The platform and operating system vendors also provide lots of support information to their
customers. Go there for general guidance about connecting their systems to SAN-attached
storage. However, be aware that in some cases you will not find information that is intended to
help you with third party (from their point of view) storage systems, especially when they also
have storage systems in their product portfolio. You may even get misleading information
about interoperability and support from IBM. It is beyond the scope of this book to list all the
vendors’ Web sites.
14.1.3 Differences to ESS 2105
For DS6000 the support matrix went through a cleanup process. The changes are described
in this section. For details see the resources listed in the previous section.
There are no parallel SCSI adapters for the DS6000. Therefore all parallel SCSI support
had to be dropped. No host system can be connected to the DS6000 via parallel SCSI.
Older HBA models, especially all 1 Gbit/s models were also removed from the support
matrix. Some new models were added.
Legacy SAN infrastructure solutions, like hubs and gateways, are not supported.