IBM DS6000 Series ユーザーズマニュアル

DS6000 Series: Concepts and Architecture

Not all hardware and software combinations for OS/400 support the DS6000. This section 
describes the hardware and software pre-requisites for attaching the DS6000.

The DS6000 is supported on all iSeries models which support Fibre Channel attachment for 
external storage. Fibre Channel was supported on all model 8xx onwards. AS/400 models 
7xx and prior only supported SCSI attachment for external storage, so they cannot support 
the DS6000.

There are two Fibre Channel adapters for iSeries. Both support the DS6000:

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2766 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel Disk Controller PCI

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2787 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel Disk Controller PCI-X

Each adapter requires its own dedicated I/O processor.

The iSeries Storage Web page provides information about current hardware requirements, 
including support for switches. This can be found at:

The iSeries must be running V5R2 or V5R3 (i5/OS) of OS/400. In addition, at the time of 
writing, the following PTFs are required:

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V5R2

– MF33327, MF33301, MF33469, MF33302, SI14711 and SI14754

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V5R3

– MF33328, MF33845, MF33437, MF33303, SI14690, SI14755 and SI14550

Prior to attaching the DS6000 to iSeries, you should check for the latest PTFs, which may 
have superseded those shown here.

OS/400 is supported on DS6000 as Fixed Block storage. Unlike other Open Systems using 
FB architecture, OS/400 only supports specific volume sizes and these may not be an exact 
number of extents. In general, these relate to the volume sizes available with internal devices, 
although some larger sizes are now supported for external storage only. OS/400 volumes are 
defined in decimal Gigabytes (10

9

bytes).

Table B-1 gives the number of extents required for different iSeries volume sizes.

1750-A81

1750-A01

8.5

16,777,216

8

0.00

100.00

1750-A82

1750-A02

17.5

34,275,328

17

0.66

96.14