User manual IBM DS6000 OVERVIEW

[. . . ] IBM System Storage® DS6000 series Interoperability Matrix January 31, 2008 © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. The information provided in this document is "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, interoperability or compatibility. IBM's products are warranted in accordance with the agreements under which they are provided. Unless otherwise specified, the product manufacturer, supplier, or publisher of non-IBM products provides warranty, service, and support directly to you. [. . . ] FlashCopy is an optional capability, and is available with the point-in-time features on the DS6000 series. Remote Mirror and Copy Solutions The D6000 series supports several hardware-based remote mirror and copy solutions. They are optional capabilities on the DS6000 series and are available with the remote mirror and copy features on the DS6000 series. Refer to Table 3 for DS6000 series model support and LMC prerequisites. The DS6000 series system can participate in remote mirror and copy solutions with the Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) Model 750, ESS Model 800, and DS8000 series systems. IBM System Storage Metro Mirror Metro Mirror is designed to provide real time mirroring between two systems that can be located up to 300 km from each other. It is a synchronous copy solution where write operations are completed on both copies (local and remote site) before they are considered to be done. Extending distances beyond 300 km is also possible however, due to network configuration variability, the customer must work with the channel extender vendor to determine the appropriate configuration to meet their performance requirements. IBM support approval for these longer distances can be requested by submitting a Request for Price Quotation (RPQ). The RPQ should include information on distance between sites, the channel extension technology, the type of telecom line, the amount of network bandwidth, the DS6800 system capacity, and a general description of the workload. IBM System Storage Global Copy Global Copy is a non-synchronous long-distance copy option for data migration and backup. With a non-synchronous operation, the distance between the primary and secondary DS6000 series system will have only a minimal effect on the application response time. Therefore, Global Copy can operate at very long distances. IBM System Storage Global Mirror Global Mirror is a high performance, asynchronous remote-mirroring copy solution. It is designed to provide a two-site disaster recovery and backup solution at virtually unlimited distances. Since the distance between the primary and secondary DS6000 series system has little impact to host applications at the primary site, the remote site can be located at distances from the local site well beyond those supported with Metro Mirror. The distances are typically limited only by the capabilities of the network and channel extension technologies. January 31, 2008 DS6000 Interoperability Matrix Page 7 Remote Mirror and Copy Channel Extension, DWDM, and Network Connectivity Distances beyond 300 km will require the use of channel extension technology, and the channel extender vendor will determine the maximum distance supported. The vendor should be contacted for its distance capability, line quality requirements, and WAN attachment capabilities. IBM supports the use of the following products, in Table 3, with remote mirror and copy. Additionally, the product vendors should also be consulted regarding hardware and software prerequisites when using their products in a DS6000 series remote mirror and copy configuration. When using remote mirror and copy with channel extenders, IBM supports the use of remote mirror and copy over all the network technologies that are currently supported by the channel extender products, including Fibre Channel, Ethernet/IP, ATM-OC3, and T1/T3. Evaluation, qualification, approval, and support of remote mirror and copy configurations using channel extender products are the sole responsibility of the channel extender vendor. The vendor should be contacted for its distance capability, line quality requirements, as well as SAN and WAN attachment capabilities. Table 3: Minimum LMC levels for remote mirror and copy over Fibre Channel (FCP) Metro Mirror DS6800 (1750-511, 1750-522) Cisco IP Storage Service Modules Cisco ONS 15530 / 15540 / 15454 CNT Edge Storage Router CNT UltraNet Storage Director-eXtended Huawei OptiX 6040/ 6100 (WDM) Huawei OptiX Metro OSN 1500 / 2500 / 3500 / 7500 IBM 2027 Models R04 and R16 IBM 2005 Model R18 IBM 2109 Model A16 2 Global Copy Global Mirror IBM 2005 Model R18 IBM 2109 Model M48 1 1 2 IBM 2109 Model M48 requires a fibre channel routing blade The IBM 2027 Models R04 and R16 support direct attach only. January 31, 2008 DS6000 Interoperability Matrix Page 8 This page is intentionally left blank. January 31, 2008 DS6000 Interoperability Matrix Page 9 HEWLETT-PACKARD SERVERS ­ HP-UX Fibre Channel Servers HP Server rp2400 series rp3400 series rp4400 series rp5400 series rp7400 series rp8400 series Superdome HP 9000 Enterprise Servers K-Class L-Class N-Class V-Class Itanium II Servers rx1600 series rx2600 series rx4600 series rx5600 series rx7600 series rx8600 series IBM 2005 Model B16, B32, B64, B5K 2005 Models H08, H16, R18 2026 Model E12, 224 2026 Models 16E, 416 2026 Models 32E, 432 2027 Models 140, 232 2027 Models R04. [. . . ] Storport drivers are not supported. Boot device support: · The DS6800 is supported as a boot device on Windows 2000 (32-bit) or Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or ia64-bit) servers that support Fibre Channel boot capability. It is supported with host adapters QLA 23xx (32-bit or ia64-bit) and LP9xxx (32-bit support only). Refer to the IBM System Storage DS6000 Host Systems Attachment Guide for additional information. Not available for IBM BladeCenter LS20, and BladeCenter HS20 8832. · SDD DSM: · · Available for Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1, 2, and R2 32-bit and x64 (AMD or EM64T servers). Available for IBM BladeCenter LS20, and BladeCenter HS20 8832. Boot device support: · The DS6800 is supported as a boot device on Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1, 32-bit and x64 (AMD or EM64T servers). [. . . ]