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322 DS8000 Series: Concepts and Architecture
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 DS8000 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 DS8000. 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.
15.1.3 Differences to the ESS 2105
For the DS8000 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 DS8000. Therefore all parallel SCSI support
had to be dropped. No host system can be connected to the DS8000 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.
There is no support for IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller storage software for
Cisco MDS 9000 (SVC4MDS) at initial GA.