IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition

Essential technology for a simpler IT infrastructure

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The table below provides a summary of SVC supported environments. For the most current, and more detailed, information, please see the detailed SVC interoperability information.         Storage systems support Specific models of the following storage systems:    IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server®, IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000™, DS5000, DS6000™, DS8000, N series IBM XIV® Storage System EMC Symmetrix DMX and 8000-series models EMC CLARiiON CX-series models and FC4700 Hitachi Data Systems Thunder, Lightning, TagmaStore, AMS, WMS, Universal Storage Platform Sun StorEdge™ systems, Sun StorageTek™ systems, FlexLine™ 200 Hewlett Packard MA8000, EMA12000, EMA16000, EVA family, MSA family, XP family NetApp FAS Bull StoreWay Fujitsu Eternus NEC iStorage Pillar Axiom Texas Memory Systems RamSan-500 Xiotech Emprise 5000                     Host multipathing software IBM System Storage Multipath Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) Symantec/Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 MP3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.3, 5.0 PVLinks for HP-UX MPIO for Windows and IBM AIX® MPxIO for Solaris™ Native Netware multipathing driver Native VMWare multipathing driver for VMWare ESX 2.5 and later Native multipathing drivers for OpenVMS, Tru64, SGI Irix RDAC multipathing software for certain DS4000 environments Operating system support IBM AIX V4.3.3 IBM AIX 5L™ V5.1, V5.2, V5.3 IBM AIX V6.1 IBM z/VSE V4.2 IBM i operating system 6.1 (i5/OS® V6R1) via IBM PowerVM™ Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) 1.5.2 and 2.1 IBM PowerVM Virtual I/O Server 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1 with Linux and AIX clients Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Microsoft Hyper-V™ Novell NetWare V6.5 Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 VMware ESX 2.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 3.0.2, 3.5, 3i HP-UX 11.0, 11i V1, V2, V3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Advanced Server 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, 10 Citrix Xen Server HP Tru64 5.1A, 5.1B HP OpenVMS 7.3-2, 8.2, 8.3 SGI Irix 6.5.28, Altix SLES 9 Mac OS X Server 10.5 IBM N series Gateways NetApp V-Series ONStor Clustered NAS Gateway    For information on HBAs and clustering support with these operating systems, visit ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/ and click on “Interoperability.” Support for SAN switches—selected models from the following suppliers Brocade McDATA Cisco CNT Service Customer engineer (CE) installation Hardware warranty, one year parts and labor One year of software maintenance included Software upgrades and fix packs available through Web download, non-disruptively IBM Global Services storage services Consult and design Backup and continuity planning Performance utilization and capacity planning Integrate and deploy Installation, cabling and site preparation Migration and consolidation Education and training Operate and manage System support and maintenance

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