Specifications

Chapter 5. Attaching to an IBM Eserver xSeries 430 or IBM

NUMA-Q host

This chapter tells you how to attach an ESS to an IBM xSeries 430 or an IBM

NUMA-Q host system with fibre-channel adapters. This chapter also tells you how

to install and configure the IOC-0210-54 adapter card.

Note: You can use either the switched fabric topology or direct fibre-channel

arbitrated loop topology to attach the ESS to either an IBM xSeries 430 host.

The ESS offers feature code 3019 as an interim solution for fibre-channel attach.

With the feature code 3019, you can attach an ESS to an IBM xSeries 430 host

through the NUMA-Q fibre-channel- to- SCSI bridge. This feature code includes one

SCSI adapter that you purchase and a no-cost loan of a NUMA-Q fibre-channel-

to-SCSI bridge. IBM requires that you sign a loan agreement for the bridge.

Notes:

1. Feature code 3019 is not a standard feature. To get feature code 3019, contact

your IBM sales representative.

2. You should have an IBM SSR attach an ESS to an IBM NUMA-Q host system

to an IBM xSeries 430.

For more information about how to attach an IBM xSeries 430 or an IBM NUMA-Q

host system with fibre-channel adapters, see the NUMA-Q ESS Integration Release

Notes. See also Fibre Channel Subsystem Installation Guide. To obtain a copy, see

your IBM sales representative.

Attaching with fibre-channel adapters

This section describe how to attach an IBM xSeries 430 or an IBM NUMA-Q host

system with fibre-channel adapters. You cannot attach the ESS to an xSeries 430

or a NUMA-Q host system by using SCSI adapters.

Attachment requirements

This section lists the requirements for attaching the ESS to your host system.

Either you or an IBM service support representative (SSR) must perform the

following tasks to install and configure an ESS:

1. The IBM SSR installs the IBM ESS by using the procedures in the IBM

Enterprise Storage Server Service Guide.

2. Either you or the IBM SSR defines the fibre-channel host system with the

worldwide port name identifiers. For information about how to locate the

worldwide port name for an IBM xSeries 430 or an IBM NUMA-Q host system,

see “Appendix A. Locating the worldwide port name (WWPN)” on page 153.

3. Either you or the IBM SSR defines the fibre-port configuration if you did not do it

during the installation of the ESS or fibre-channel adapters.

Note: Use the information on the logical configuration work sheet in the IBM

Enterprise Storage Server Configuration Planner that you previously filled

out.

4. Configure your host system for the ESS by using the instructions in your host

system publications.