IBM DS6000 Series ユーザーズマニュアル

DS6000 Series: Concepts and Architecture

The Qlogic web site can be found at:

QLogic maintains a page that lists all the HBAs, drivers, and firmware versions that are 
supported for attachment to IBM storage systems:

The Emulex home page is:

They also have a page with content specific to IBM storage systems:

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:

Their IBM storage specific support page is:

Atto supplies HBAs which IBM supports for Apple Macintosh attachment to the DS6000. Their 
home page is:

They have no IBM storage specific page. Their support page is:

Downloading drivers and utilities for their HBAs requires registration.

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.

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.

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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.

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Older HBA models, especially all 1 Gbit/s models were also removed from the support 
matrix. Some new models were added.

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Legacy SAN infrastructure solutions, like hubs and gateways, are not supported.