IBM DS8000 manual Boot support, Additional supported configurations RPQ

￿Some legacy operating systems and operating system versions were dropped from the support matrix. These are either versions which were withdrawn from marketing or support that are not marketed or supported by their vendors or are not seen as significant enough anymore to justify the testing effort necessary to support them. Major examples include:

–IBM AIX 4.x, OS/400 V5R1, Dynix/ptx

–Microsoft Windows NT®

–Sun Solaris 2.6, 7

–HP UX 10, 11, Tru64 4.x, OpenVMS 5.x

–Novell Netware 4.x

–All professional Linux distributions, SUSE SLES7

￿Some new operating systems and versions were added, including:

–Apple Macintosh OS X

–IBM AIX 5.3

–IBM i5 OS V5R3

–VMWare 2.5.0 (first quarter of 2005)

–Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 IA-64

–SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (first quarter of 2005)

15.1.4Boot support

For most of the supported platforms and operating systems you can use the DS8000 as a boot device. The DS8000 Interoperability Matrix provides detailed information about boot support. Refer to “The DS8000 Interoperability Matrix” on page 321.

The DS8000 Host Systems Attachment Guide, SC26-7628, helps you with the procedures necessary to set up your host in order to boot from the DS8000. See “The DS8000 Host Systems Attachment Guide” on page 321.

The SDD User’s Guide, SC26-7637, also helps with identifying the optimal configuration and lists the steps required to boot from multipathing devices. For more information refer to 15.2, “Subsystem Device Driver” on page 324.

15.1.5 Additional supported configurations (RPQ)

There is a process for cases where a desired configuration is not represented in the support matrix. This process is called Request for Price Quotation (RPQ). Clients should contact their IBM storage sales specialist or IBM Business Partner for submission of an RPQ. Initiating the process does not guarantee the desired configuration will be supported. This depends on the technical feasibility and the required test effort. A configuration that equals or is similar to one of the already approved ones is more likely to get approved than a completely different one.

15.1.6 Differences in interoperability between the DS8000 and DS6000

The DS8000 and DS6000 have the same open systems support matrix. There are only a few exceptions, with respect to the timing. DS6000 will support some operating systems not at initial GA, but in the first quarter of 2005:

￿OpenVMS

￿Tru64

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