Specifications

About this guide

This guide provides information about:

v Attaching the IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) to an open-systems host with

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) adapters

v Attaching the ESS to an open-systems host with fibre-channel adapters

v Connecting IBM Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON

) cables to your IBM

S/390

and IBM ERserver zSeries (zSeries) host systems

v Connecting IBM Enterprise Systems Fibre Connection (FICON

) cables to your

S/390 and zSeries host systems

You can attach the following host systems to an ESS:

v Compaq

v Data General

v Hewlett Packard

v Linux

v IBM AS/400 and IBM Eserver iSeries (iSeries) with IBM Operating System/400

Version 3 or Version 4 (OS/400

)

v IBM NUMA-Q and IBM Eserver xSeries (xSeries)

v IBM RS/6000

and IBM Eserver pSeries (pSeries)

v IBM RS/6000 SP

v IBM S/390 and IBM Eserver zSeries (zSeries)

v Microsoft

Windows NT

4.0

v Microsoft Windows 2000

v Novell NetWare

v Sun

v UNIX

Use this publication along with the publications for your host system.

Who should use this guide

Customers or IBM service support representatives can use this manual to attach

the ESS to a host system.

Summary of changes

Vertical revision bars (|) in the left margin indicate technical changes to this

document. Minor editorial changes do not have vertical revision bars.

November 2001

This edition includes the following new information:

v Procedures about how to attach an ESS to a Compaq host system with

fibre-channel adapters.

v Procedures about how to attach an ESS to a Linux host system with

fibre-channel adapters.