User`s guide

180 Implementing an Open IBM SAN
INRANGE does just that, by supporting these protocols:
򐂰 Open Systems:
– Arbitrated Loop
• Public loop
• Private loop
– FC-SW (Fibre Channel Switched Fabric)
򐂰 S/390 systems (zSeries):
– FICON
All these can attached to a single INRANGE director at the same time.
Support of cascading
To create even larger fabrics FC/9000 directors can be cascaded. By doing this
you can create fabrics with more than a thousand external ports. Today, IBM
supports fabrics with up to 8 cascaded INRANGE FC/9000 directors.
However, cascading is not supported when using FICON attachments in the
currently supported microcode releases.
3.1.5 Supported host attachment
Currently these servers are supported by IBM to attach to the FC/9000:
򐂰 IBM 9672 Enterprise G5, G6 and z-series server with FICON Channel Card
(FC2314 and FC2316), Longwave and Shortwave laser
򐂰 IBM Netfinity server with Windows NT 4.0 (SP6a) and FAStT Host Adapter
(P/N:00N6881)
򐂰 Intel-based servers with Windows NT 4.0(SP6a) or 2000K and QLogic
QLA2200F Host Bus Adapter
򐂰 Sun Servers with Solaris 2.6,2.7, 8 and Host Bust Adapters - SBus JNI
FC64-1063-N or PCI LP8000, QLA2200F, JNI FCI-1063
Additionally, the following servers are in their testing process now, and are
expected to be supported by IBM once testing is complete:
򐂰 IBM RS/6000 and RS/6000 SP Servers with AIX 4.3.3 and Gigabit Fibre
Channel Adapter (FC 6227)
򐂰 HP/9000 Servers with HP/UX 11.0 and A5158A Adapter
For the latest support matrix of INRANGE FC/9000, refer to:
http://www.storage.ibm.com/ibmsan/products/directors/prod_data/supserver-042.html