Datasheet

10
or earlier
Storage adapters (FC, SAS,
SCSI)
Yes
Must be supported by IBM i 6.1 or higher and
supported on POWER6/7-based IBM Power
server
Storage devices and
subsystems
Yes
Must be supported by IBM i 6.1 or higher and
supported on POWER6/7-based IBM Power
server
Network adapters
Yes
Must be supported by IBM i 6.1 or higher and
supported on POWER6/7-based IBM Power
server
Optical devices
Yes
Must be supported by IBM i 6.1 or higher and
supported on POWER6/7-based IBM Power
server
Tape devices
Yes*
Physical tape devices are supported when
the hosting IBM i is at i7.1 TR2 or newer.
Table 1: Hardware supported
To determine the storage, network and optical devices supported on each IBM Power server
model, refer to the sales manual for each model at: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss.
To determine the storage, network and optical devices supported only by IBM i 6.1, refer to the
upgrade planning website at: https://www-
304.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/futurehdwr.html.
2.2.2 Software and firmware
Software or firmware type
Supported for
IBM i hosting
IBM i
Notes
IBM i 6.1 or higher
Yes
Required on both host and client IBM i
partition
IBM i 5.4 or earlier
No
Not supported on host or client partition
IBM Power server system
firmware 320_040_031 or
higher
Yes
This is the minimum system firmware level
required
HMC firmware V7 R3.2.0 or
higher
Yes
This is the minimum HMC firmware level
required
SDMC firmware V6 R7.3.0 or
higher
Yes
This is the minimum HMC firmware level
required
Table 2: Software and firmware requirements
2.3 Planning for implementing IBM i Client partitions
2.3.1 Storage planning
Because the storage for virtual disks in the IBM i client LPAR is provided by NWSSTG objects in
the host LPAR, the main prerequisite to installing a new client LPAR is having sufficient capacity
in the host to create those objects. Note that the host partition is not capable of detecting the
percent of the virtual storage that is used by the client. For example, if a 500-GB storage space