V6.3 Supported Hardware List, Device Driver, Firmware and Recommended Software Levels for IBM Storwize V7000

Preventive Service Planning

Abstract

The documents titled Supported Hardware List and Recommended Software Levels provide the operating systems, Host adapters, SAN fabric elements, RAID controllers and selected other hardware that have been tested or qualified by IBM. This page combines the previously separate Software and Hardware support matrices.

For operating systems, we show the latest tested release levels and service packs. Only the listed operating systems are supported. For host adapters, SAN fabric elements and RAID controllers, we list our currently recommended firmware and/or BIOS levels and formally support only the hardware listed.

While these levels are not mandatory levels for a customer to be supported by IBM, they are the recommended levels. There may be known operational issues with older firmware and BIOS levels and, in these cases, a customer working with the IBM Support center may be directed to upgrade a component to a recommended level.

SVC will support all OS applications at any level that run to the standard block level OS interface. This includes such applications as Oracle, HP Virtual Connect, etc.

Note:
* The levels shown in italic text indicate previously recommended levels.
* The level shown in bold text indicates the latest recommended level.

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Whilst IBM recommends these levels based upon the most recent testing, the following levels were tested against previous versions of Storwize V7000 and IBM will support the use of these levels with SVC V6.3.x

If you have Interoperability requirements which are not listed in this document please contact your IBM Account Representative

Additional Links	Last Updated
Previously Supported Levels	26 Apr 2012
Supported Drive Types	26 Apr 2012
Storwize V7000 Easy Tier Function Supported Configurations	18 Jan 2011
Storwize V7000 Code Compatibility	30 Mar 2012

Hosts
IBM SAN Volume Controller	06 Feb 2012
IBM AIX on System p	07 Oct 2010
VIOS	07 Oct 2010
Windows 2003 Server using MPIO	06 Feb 2012
Windows 2008 Server using MPIO	06 Feb 2012
Red Hat EL 4.0	07 Oct 2010
Red Hat EL 5.0	06 Feb 2012
Red Hat EL 6.0	01 Aug 2011
SLES 9	07 Oct 2010
SLES10	06 Feb 2012
SLES11	06 Feb 2012
Debian	01 Aug 2011
z/VM	07 Oct 2010
Novell OES2	07 Oct 2010
HP-UX 11i v1	07 Oct 2010
HP-UX 11i v2	07 Oct 2010
HP-UX 11i v3	07 Oct 2010
Sun Solaris 8	07 Oct 2010
Sun Solaris 9	07 Oct 2010
Sun Solaris 10	09 May 2011
Novell Netware	07 Oct 2010
VMware SRM	29 Oct 2012
VMware VAAI	10 Jun 2011
VMware FC	07 Oct 2010
VMware iSCSI	14 Feb 2012
Tru64	07 Oct 2010
OpenVMS	05 Sep 2011
IBM N Series Gateway and NetApp	03 May 2011
z/VSE	07 Oct 2010
Apple Mac OS X	07 Oct 2010
Citrix Xen Server	22 Feb 2011
Software iSCSI Host Attachment	07 Oct 2010
IBM BladeCenter®	07 Oct 2010
Support for BladeServer Configurations	07 Oct 2010
HS & LS Models	07 Oct 2010
JS Models	07 Oct 2010
HP BladeSystem	07 Oct 2010
Controllers
DS3000	10 Jun 2011
DS4000	10 Oct 2011
DS5000	06 Sep 2012
DS6000	07 Oct 2010
DS8000	10 Jun 2011
IBM ESS	07 Oct 2010
DCS3700	10 Oct 2011
XIV	14 Aug 2012
HP	06 Sep 2012
HP 3PAR	06 Sep 2012
Hitachi Data Systems	09 May 2011
EMC	07 Oct 2010
Sun StorEdge	07 Oct 2010
StorageTek	07 Oct 2010
IBM N Series Filer and NetApp FAS	07 Oct 2010
Fujitsu Eternus	03 Apr 2012
Bull Storeway	06 Feb 2012
NEC iStorage	06 Feb 2012
Pillar Data	22 Feb 2011
Texas Memory Systems	06 Sep 2012
Xiotech	06 Sep 2012
Nexsan	06 Sep 2012
Compellent	10 Oct 2011
Violin Memory	06 Sep 2012
Switches
ISL Blades	07 Oct 2010
BladeCenter Supported Configurations	24 Apr 2012
Brocade FC Brocade Converged Network Switches	11 Oct 2011
Cisco MDS Cisco Nexus	06 Sep 2012
McDATA	07 Oct 2010
Qlogic	07 Oct 2010
Other Hardware & Software
Inter Cluster Fibre Extenders	07 Oct 2010
Inter Cluster SAN Routers	07 Oct 2010
IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway	07 Oct 2010
VSS	09 May 2011
Management GUI	10 Jun 2011
GPFS / RVSD Versions	07 Oct 2010
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC)	30 Aug 2012
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCM)	08 May 2012
Oracle	07 Oct 2010

Previous Support Levels

SVC Version	Previous Support Levels
6.2.x	IBM Storwize V7000 V6.2 Supported Hardware List, Device Driver, Firmware and Recommended Software Levels
6.1.x	IBM Storwize V7000 Supported Hardware List, Device Driver, Firmware and Recommended Software Levels V6.1

Storwize V7000 Supported Drive Types

Storwize V7000 Supported Drive Types
Please follow this link for details on Supported Drive Types and Firmware Levels for Storwize V7000

Storwize V7000 Easy Tier Function Supported Configurations

Tier 0 Storage	Tier 1 Storage	Notes
Internal SSDs (within V7000 enclosures)	Internal SAS or NL-SAS (within V7000 enclosures)	Easy Tier is not supported in any configuration where SSDs are not exclusively being used as the Tier 0 storage.
Internal SSDs (within V7000 enclosures)	Externally virtualized SAS or NL-SAS
Externally virtualized SSDs	Internal SAS or NL-SAS (within V7000 enclosures)
Externally virtualized SSDs	Externally virtualized SAS or NL-SAS

Storwize V7000 Code Compatibility

Storwize V7000 Version
Please visit the concurrent compatibility and code cross reference for Storwize V7000

Hosts

IBM SAN Volume Controller

	Type	Version	Notes
IBM SAN Volume Controller	2145	5.1.0.8 or Higher	Please visit the following flash for details on Storwize V7000 as Backend Storage for SAN Volume Controller

IBM AIX on Power Systems

Supported Server Model	Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	Multipath Driver	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5716	Driver included in Technology Level	SDDPCM 2.6.0.3 SDDPCM 2.6.1.0 AIXPCM ( AIX 6.1 and 7.1 Only ) Supported with Storage Layer Only Replication Layer requires SDDPCM Veritas DMP Version 5.0x ( Not supported on AIX 7.1 ) Veritas DMP Version 6.0 ( Supported with AIX 6.1 TL7 & AIX 7.1 )	Power HA 5.5 6.1 7.1	Yes	System i System p AIX 5.3 Technology Level 8 Technology Level 9 Technology Level 10 Technology Level 11 Technology Level 12 AIX 6.1 Technology Level 1 Technology Level 2 Technology Level 3 Technology Level 4 Technology Level 5 Technology Level 6 AIX 7.1 FC5708 supported connected to top of rack combined network switch. WLPARs are supported with AIX 7.1 Please visit AIX support for information on configurations


IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B)	FC1977 FC1905 FC1910


IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5773 FC5758

				Veritas Storage Foundation HA Version 5.0 & 5.0U1 ( Not supported on AIX 7.1 ) Veritas Storage Foundation HA Version 6.0 ( Supported with AIX 6.1 TL7 & AIX 7.1 )	No
IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 560 (8234-EMA) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 755 (8236-E8C) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5779 FC5774

IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 560 (8234-EMA) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 710 (8231-E2B) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 730 (8231-E2B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 755 (8236-E8C) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5708 CNA FC8242 CNA FC 8271 CNA						FC5708, FC 8242 & FC 8271 supported connected to top of rack combined network switch. For further information in FC 5708 please use this link
IBM Power 720 (8202-E4C) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6C) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMC) BM Power 780 (9179-MHC)	FC5735 FC5729		SDDPCM 2.6.0.3 SDDPCM 2.6.1.0 AIXPCM Supported with Storage Layer Only Replication Layer requires SDDPCM	Power HA 5.5 6.1 7.1		Support starting on the following levels AIX 6.1 TL7 AIX 7.1 TL1

IBM Virtual I/O Server ( VIOS )

Supported Server Model	Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	Multipath Driver	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5716	Driver included in VIOS version	SDDPCM 2.6.0.3 SDDPCM 2.6.1.0 AIXPCM ( AIX 6.1 and 7.1 Only )	No	Yes	VIOS 2.2 AIX, Linux Clients IBM i Client Versions 7.1 TR1 and 6.1.1 ( non NPIV ) NPIV is supported with FC 5735 and FC 5708 HBAs FC5708 supported connected to top of rack combined network switch. WLPARs are supported with AIX 7.1 Please visit AIX support for information on configurations


IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B)	FC1977 FC1905 FC1910


IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5773 FC5735 FC5758


IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 560 (8234-EMA) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 755 (8236-E8C) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5779 FC5774

IBM Power 520 (8203-E4A) IBM Power 550 (8204-E8A) IBM Power 560 (8234-EMA) IBM Power 570 (9117-MMA) IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A) IBM Power 595 (9119-FHA) IBM Power 710 (8231-E2B) IBM Power 720 (8202-E4B) IBM Power 730 (8231-E2B) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6B) IBM Power 750 (8233-E8B) IBM Power 755 (8236-E8C) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMB) IBM Power 780 (9179-MHB) IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB)	FC5708 CNA						FC5708 supported connected to top of rack combined network switch. For further information in FC 5708 please use this link
IBM Power 720 (8202-E4C) IBM Power 740 (8205-E6C) IBM Power 770 (9117-MMC) BM Power 780 (9179-MHC)	FC5735 FC5729		SDDPCM 2.6.0.3 SDDPCM 2.6.1.0 AIXPCM Supported with Storage Layer Only Replication Layer requires SDDPCM			Support starting on the following levels VIOS 2.2.1, IBM i 7.1TR3, i 6.1.1 (latest ML)

Windows 2003 Server (Using MPIO)

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Firmware	HBA Driver	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM	QLogic	BIOS 1.52 BIOS 1.54	STOR Miniport 9.1.4.15 9.1.7.16 9.1.7.18 9.1.8.25 9.1.9.25	SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 2.4.3.1-1 2.4.3.1-2	IBM Storwize V7000 supports up to 8 Windows 2003 nodes per MSCS cluster	Yes Please visit the V6.3.x Software Restrictions document for information regarding Windows SAN Boot Clusters (MSCS)	Windows 2003 32 & 64bit Editions Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Datacenter Edition Standard x64 Edition Enterprise x64 Edition Datacenter x64 Edition SP2 R2 SP2	Please install Veritas Storage Foundation (tm) and High Availability Solutions for Windows 5.0 Rollup Patch 1a (RP1a) Windows 2003 R2 is supported. Please refer to the following link for additional support information Microsoft Virtual Server is supported. Windows Server 2003 R2 Partners
FC-2 19K1246	QLA2310/F QLA2310/FL				MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	No
FC2-133 24P8053	QLA2342 QLA2342L			DMPDSM	MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	Yes
39M5894	QLA2460	*Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24)* Multiflash Image 1.79 (BIOS 2.10)
39M5895	QLA2462				VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.0	No
39R6525	QLE2460
39R6527	QLE2462
42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562				VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.1	Yes
IBM	Emulex	3.93a0	Storport Driver 1.30a9 2.00a12 2.10a4 2.10a7 2.32.002	SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 2.4.3.1-1 2.4.3.1-2	IBM Storwize V7000 supports up to 8 Windows 2003 nodes per MSCS cluster	Yes Please visit the V6.3.x Software Restrictions document for information regarding Windows SAN Boot Clusters (MSCS)		Please install Veritas Storage Foundation (tm) and High Availability Solutions for Windows 5.0 Rollup Patch 1a (RP1a) Windows 2003 R2 is supported. Please refer to the following link for additional support information Microsoft Virtual Server is supported. Windows Server 2003 R2 Partners
	LP9002L LP9002DC				MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	No
	LP9402DC			DMPDSM	MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	Yes
	LP9802DC LP1050, LP1050DC LP1050Ex, LP1050ExDC LP10000, LP10000DC LP10000ExDC LP1005DCCM2	1.92a1 1.92a2
					VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.0	No
	LP11000 LP11002 LP1150	2.72a2 2.82a3			VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.1	Yes
	LPe11000 LPe11002 LPe1150	2.50a6
	LP12000 LP12002 LPe12000 LPe12002	1.10a5 1.11a5
CNA Support		1.1.0.x *2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	1.1.0.x *2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 2.4.3.1-1 2.4.3.1-2	No	Yes		Windows 2003 R2 is supported. Please refer to the following link for additional support information Microsoft Virtual Server is supported. Windows Server 2003 R2 Partners
IBM	Brocade
59Y1987 59Y1993 46M6049 46M6050	415 425 815 825
42C1820	1010/1020	*2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	*2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0			No
iSCSI Support
IBM	Qlogic
	QLE-SR-CK 8140	1.0.0.1	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Intel/AMD Windows 2003 32 & 64bit Editions Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Datacenter Edition Standard x64 Edition Enterprise x64 Edition Datacenter x64 Edition SP2 R2 SP2	SAN Boot supported in Network Boot Configurations e.g. PXE
	QLE-SR-CK 8042
IBM	Emulex							For OCE10102-NX-X iSCSI SAN Boot is supported in Network Boot Configurations Oce10102-I & Oce10102-N-X with iSCSI personality enabled are hardware iSCSI initiators Note iSCSI SAN Boot is not supported with Cisco Nexus 5010 Series Switch
	Oce10102-I	Emulex iSCSI Storport Miniport Driver Version 2.102.348.0	2.103.269.30	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Oce10102-NX-X
	Oce10102-N-X ( With iSCIS Personality enabled )

Windows 2008 Server (Using MPIO)

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Firmware	HBA Driver	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Virtualisation	Notes
IBM	QLogic	BIOS 1.52 BIOS 1.54 BIOS 2.10	STOR Miniport 9.1.4.15 9.1.7.16 9.1.7.18 9.1.8.25 9.1.9.25	2.4.2.1-2 2.4.3.1-1 2.4.3.1-2	Yes	Yes Please visit the V6.3 Software Restrictions document for information regarding Windows SAN Boot Clusters (MSCS) SAN Boot is not supported with Qlogic Driver 9.1.8.25	Intel/AMD 32 & 64 bit Editions Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Datacenter Edition Standard x64 Edition Enterprise x64 Edition Datacenter x64 Edition SP1 SP2 R2	Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS Windows 2003 32bit Windows 2003 64bit Windows 2008 32bit Windows 2008 64bit With SDDDSM	Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for configuration details & Guidelines for Hyper-V Please see the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for recommended settings for QLE2560/QLE2562 & Emulex HBAs Cluster Shared Volumes are supported with Hyper-V
FC-2 133 24P0960 FC2-133 24P8053	QLA2340 QLA2340L QLA2342 QLA2342L
39M5894	QLA2460	*Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24)* *Multiflash Image 1.79 (BIOS 2.10)* Multiflash Image 2.12 (BIOS 2.10)			MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	No		N/A
39M5895	QLA2462			DMPDSM	VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.0
39R6525	QLE2460				MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1
39R6527	QLE2462				VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.1
42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562
42C1830	QMI8142	1.00.95	9.1.8.26	2.4.3.1-2	No	No		N/A	Supported with Cisco Nexus only
IBM	Emulex	1.92a1	Storport Driver 2.00a12 2.10a4 2.10a7 2.20.006 2.32.002	2.4.2.1-2 2.4.3.1-1 2.4.3.1-2	Yes	Yes Please visit the V6.3 Software Restrictions document for information regarding Windows SAN Boot Clusters (MSCS)		Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS Windows 2003 32bit Windows 2003 64bit Windows 2008 32bit Windows 2008 64bit With SDDDSM	Please visit the following flash for details on known issues with device drivers Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for configuration details & Guidelines for Hyper-V Please see the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for recommended settings for QLE2560/QLE2562 & Emulex HBAs Cluster Shared Volumes are supported with Hyper-V
	LP9802DC LP1050, LP1050DC LP1050Ex, LP1050ExDC LP10000, LP10000DC LP10000ExDC LP1005DCCM2
					MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	No		N/A
				DMPDSM	VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.0
					MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1
					VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.1

	LP11000, LP11002 LP1150 LPe1150	2.50a6 2.72a2 2.82a3
	LPe11000, LPe11002 LPe1150
	LP12000 LPe12000 LPe12002	1.10a5 1.11a5 2.00a3
IBM	Brocade	1.1.0.x *2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	1.1.0.x *2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	2.4.2.1-2 2.4.3.1-1 2.4.3.1-2	No	Yes	Intel/AMD 32 & 64 bit Editions Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Datacenter Edition Standard x64 Edition Enterprise x64 Edition Datacenter x64 Edition SP1 SP2 R2	N/A
59Y1987 59Y1993 46M6049 46M6050	415 425 815 825
	1860	3.0.0 3.0.x.0	3.0.0 3.0.x.0
42C1820	1010/1020	*2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	*2.1.0.x* 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0			No
iSCSI Support
IBM	Qlogic
	QLE-SR-CK 8140	1.0.0.1	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes			SAN Boot supported in Network Boot Configurations e.g. PXE
	QLE-SR-CK 8042
IBM	Emulex
	Oce10102-I	Emulex iSCSI Storport Miniport Driver Version 2.102.348.0	2.103.269.30	Yes	Yes	Yes	Intel/AMD Windows 2003 32 & 64bit Editions Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Datacenter Edition Standard x64 Edition Enterprise x64 Edition Datacenter x64 Edition SP2 R2 SP2	N/A	For OCE10102-NX-X iSCSI SAN Boot is supported in Network Boot Configurations Oce10102-I & Oce10102-N-X with iSCSI personality enabled are hardware iSCSI initiators Note iSCSI SAN Boot is not supported with Cisco Nexus 5010 Series Switch
	Oce10102-NX-X
	Oce10102-N-X ( With iSCIS Personality enabled )

Red Hat Server 4.0

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM	QLogic
FC-2 P/N 19K1246	QLA2310/F QLA2310/FL	8.01.06 8.01.07-d4 8.02.08 8.02.09-d0-RHEL4.7-04 (RHEL4.7 Distro) 8.02.14.01 8.02.09.00.04.08-D (RHEL4.8 Distro)	BIOS 1.52	Device Mapper Multipath	Red Hat Cluster server Steeleye Lifekeeper 7.0	Yes	32 & 64 bit systems U7 Kernel 2.6.9.78.0.1 U8 Kernel 2.6.9.89	Please see flash below before upgrading your HBA drivers Linux 2.6 Device Driver Issues with Levels Qlogic 8.01.07 or Higher and Emulex 8.16.34 or Higher Volume expansion & contraction is not supported
FC-2 133 P/N 24P0960	QLA2340 QLA2340L
FC2-133 Dual Port P/N 24P8053	QLA2342 QLA2342L
39M5894	QLA2460		Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24)
39R6525	QLE2460
39M5895	QLA2462
39R6527	QLE2462
42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562		4.04.00
Emulex		8.0.16.27 8.0.16.34 8.0.16.40 8.0.16.44 8.0.16.46	3.93a0
LP9002
LP9802			1.91a5	Veritas DMP	VSF 5.0 HA Maintenance Pack 3	No
			1.92a1
LP10000 LP10000DC			2.70a5 2.72a2
LP11000
LP11002
LP1150
LPe11000
LPe11002
LPe1150
LPe12002			1.10a5
IBM			1.91a5	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	IBM System p	Fabric maintenance and CCL restrictions apply, please visit Software Restrictions for further details Volume expansion & contraction is not supported


FC5716 / FC1977

FC3319 SX/LX FC 3320 SX/LX Ficon Express 4, 10km LX: #3321 Ficon Express 4, SX: #3322 Ficon Express 4, 4km LX: #3324		zfcp		Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	IBM System z Requires a minimum RHEL 4 kernel level of zLinux RHEL4U4, 2.6.9-42.EL.m3 Supported Machines: System z z800 - IBM 2066 System z z800 - IBM 2086 System z z900 - IBM 2064 System z z990 - IBM 2084 System z z9-109 System z z10 2097-E12 System z z10 2097-E26 System z z10 2097-E40 System z z10 2097-E56 System z z10 2097-E64 Restrictions apply, please visit the Software restrictions document	Volume expansion & contraction is not supported

Red Hat EL Advanced Server 5

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM	QLogic	8.01.07 8.01.07-K1 8.01.07-K7 8.02.00-k5-rhel5.2-04 8.02.00.06.05.03-k 8.03.00.10.05.04-k 8.03.01.04.05.05-k 8.03.01.05.05.06-k 8.03.01.05.05.07-k	Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24 ) Multiflash Image 1.69 ( BIOS 2.02)	Device Mapper Multipath	Red Hat Cluster server Steeleye Lifekeeper 7.0	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms 5.0 Kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 U1 Kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 U2 Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 U3 Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 U5 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 U6 Kernel 2.6.18.238.el5 U7 Kernel 2.6.18.274.EL5	Volume expansion & contraction is not supported For details on configuring Multipathing please visit this Link KVM is supported
	QLA2340
	QLA2342
39M5894	QLA2460
39M5895	QLA2462
39R6525	QLE2460
39R6527	QLE2462
39M5894	QLA2460		1.62af
39M5895	QLA2462		1.62af
42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562		4.04.00 04.06.02
IBM	Emulex	8.1.10.3 8.2.0.22 8.2.0.33 8.2.0.33.3p 8.2.0.48.2p 8.2.0.63.3p 8.2.0.87.1p	1.91a5 2.70a5 2.72a2
	LP9802 LP10000 LP10000DC LP11000 LP11002 LPe11000 LPe11002 LP1150 LPe1150		1.91a5 2.70a5 2.72a2	Veritas DMP	Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 & 5.1	Yes
			1.20x8 2.70a5 2.72a2 2.82a3





	LP12000 LP12002		1.11a5
FC3319 SX/LX FC 3320 SX/LX Ficon Express 4, 10km LX: #3321 Ficon Express 4, SX: #3322 Ficon Express 4, 4km LX: #33245735LPe12002		zfcp			No	No	IBM System z Requires a minimum RHEL 4 kernel level of zLinux RHEL4U4, 2.6.9-42.EL.m3 Supported Machines: System z z800 - IBM 2066 System z z800 - IBM 2086 System z z900 - IBM 2064 System z z990 - IBM 2084 System z z9-109 System z z10 2097-E12 System z z10 2097-E26 System z z10 2097-E40 System z z10 2097-E56 System z z10 2097-E64
IBM	Emulex	8.2.0.63.3p	1.91a5	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	IBM System p 5.0 Kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 U1 Kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 U2 Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 U3 Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5
5716	LP10000		1.91a5
5773 5774	LPe11000 LPe11000 LPe11002		1.20x8 2.70a5 2.72a2
5758 5759 5749 (IBM System i)	LP11002 LP11000 LP11002 LP11002		2.71x4
5735	LPe12002		1.11a5
59Y1987 59Y1993 46M6049 46M6050	Brocade 415 Brocade 815 Brocade 425 Brocade 825	1.1.0.x 2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	1.1.0.x 2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms U3 Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 U5 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5
	Brocade 1860	3.0.0 3.0.x.0	3.0.0 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	U5 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5
CNA Support
IBM	Brocade
42C1820	Brocade 1010/1020 CNA	2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms U3 Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 U5	Supported with Brocade Fabric Only
IBM	Qlogic
42C1830	QMI8142	8.03.00.08.10.3-k4+ DD	1.00.95	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms U3 Kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 U5 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5 U6 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5	Supported with Cisco Nexus Only
iSCSI Support
IBM	Qlogic
	QLE-SR-CK 8140	2.1.4-NAPI	1.7	Yes	No	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Systems U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 U5 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5	SAN Boot is supported in Network Boot configurations ie PXE
	QLE-SR-CK 8042	2.1.4-NAPI	1.7	Yes	No	Yes
IBM	Emulex
	Oce10102-I	2.103.269.28 (be2net)	2.103.269.30	Yes	No	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Systems U4 Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 U5 Kernel 2.6.18-194.el5	0102-NX-X, iSCSI SAN Boot supported in Network Boot Configurations. 2.Oce10102-I & Oce10102-N-X with iSCSI personality enabled, are hardware iSCSI
	Oce10102-NX-X
	Oce10102-N-X (with iSCSI Personality enabled )

Red Hat EL Advanced Server 6,6U1

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM	QLogic	8.03.04.12.06.0-k0	04.06.02	Device Mapper Multipath Veritas Storage Foundation HA Version 5U1 SP1 PR2	RHEL 6 Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server Version 5.1 SP1 PR2	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Systems 6.0 Kernal 2.6.32-71.el6	For details on configuring Multipathing please visit this Link KVM is supported
39M5894 39M5895 39R6525 39R6527	QLA2460 QLA2462 QLE2460 QLE2462








42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562		05.04.01
IBM	Emulex	8.3.5.35	2.82a4
	LP11000 LP11002 LPe11000 LPe11002 LP1150 LPe1150






	LP12000 LP12002		1.11a5
	QMI 8142	8.03.01.05.05.06-k	5.03.09		No	No
	QMI 8142	8.03.01.05.05.06-k	5.03.09				System P 6.0 Kernal 2.6.32-71.el6.ppc64

SLES 9 Novell/SuSE

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
FC-2 P/N 19K1246	QLA2310F QLA2310FL	8.01.06 8.02.08 8.02.14.01 8.02.23	BIOS 1.52	Device Mapper Multipath	Steeleye Lifekeeper 6.3 7.0 Linux HA- Heartbeet 1.2.5	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SP3 2.6.5-7.276 Kernel SP4 2.6.5-7.308 Kernel 2.6.5-7.311 Kernel 2.6.5-7.312 Kernel	Please see flash below before upgrading your HBA drivers Linux 2.6 Device Driver Issues with Levels Qlogic 8.01.07 or Higher and Emulex 8.16.34 or Higher Volume expansion & contraction is not supported
FC-2 133 P/N 24P0960	QLA2340 QLA2340L
FC2-133 Dual Port P/N 24P8053	QLA2342 QLA2342L
P/N 39M5894	QLA2460		Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24 ) Multiflash Image 1.69 ( BIOS 2.02)
39R6525	QLE2460


P/N 39M5895	QLA2462
39R6527	QLE2462
42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562		4.04.00
Emulex		8.0.16.27 8.0.16.34 8.0.16.40 8.0.16.44	3.92a1

LP9002
LP9802			1.91a5	Veritas DMP	VSFHA 5.0	No
			1.92a1
LP10000 LP10000DC			2.50a6 2.72a2
LP11000
LP11002
LP1150 LPe1150
LPe11000
LPe11002
LPe1150
LPe12002			1.10a5
IBM			1.91a5		No	No	System P	Volume expansion & contraction is not supported
FC5716 / FC1977
FC 2315 LX / SX FC 2318 LX / SX FC 2319 LX / SX FC 2320 LX / SX FC 3319 LX / SX FC 3320 LX / SX Ficon Express 4, 10km LX: #3321 Ficon Express 4, SX: #3322 Ficon Express 4, 4km LX: #3324		zfcp					Supported Machines: System z z800 - IBM 2066 System z z800 - IBM 2086 System z z900 - IBM 2064 System z z990 - IBM 2084 System z z9-109 System z z10 2097-E12 System z z10 2097-E26 System z z10 2097-E40 System z z10 2097-E56 System z z10 2097-E64	Volume expansion & contraction is not supported

SLES 10 Novell/SuSE

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes

IBM	Emulex	8.1.6.8 8.1.10.3 8.2.0.22 8.2.0.48.2p	1.91a5	Veritas DMP 5.0 & 5.1	Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 & 5.1	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp	Volume expansion & contraction is not supported For details on configuring Multipathing please visit this Link
	LP9802
	LP10000 LP10000DC
	LP11002 LP1150		2.70a5
	LPe11000
	LPe11002			Device Mapper Multipath	Native Cluster with Heartbeat / Stonith version	Yes
	LPe12002-M8		1.10A5 (U3D1.10A5)
IBM		8.01.06 8.02.00-k6-SLES10-05 8.2.0.48.2p	Multiflash Image 1.69 ( BIOS 2.02) 4..04.09 ( BIOS 2.02)
39M5894	QLA2460
39M5895	QLA2462
	QLA2340
	QLA2342
42D0501 42D0510	QLE2560 QLE2562
FC 2319 LX FC 2320 SX Ficon Express 4, 10km LX:#3321 Ficon Express 4, SX: #3322 Ficon Express 4, 4km LX: #332		zfcp		Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	IBM System z System z z800 - IBM 2066 System z z800 - IBM 2086 System z z900 - IBM 2064 System z z990 - IBM 2084 System z z9-109 System z z10 2097-E12 System z z10 2097-E26 System z z10 2097-E40 System z z10 2097-E56 System z z10 2097-E64 Please visit System z for Service Pack levels
IBM		8.1.6.8	1.91a5	SDD	No	No	IBM System p SP1 2.6.16.46-0.12-ppc64 SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-ppc64
FC5716 FC1977
FC5758 FC1910 FC1905 FC5759			2.10x8
IBM	Brocade	1.1.0.x 2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	1.1.0.x 2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp
59Y1987 59Y1993 46M6049 46M6050	Brocade 415 Brocade 815 Brocade 425 Brocade 825
CNA Support
42C1820 CNA	Brocade 1010/1020 CNA	2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp	Supported with Brocade Fabric Only Volume expansion & contraction is not supported
42C1830	QMI8142	8.03.00.08.10.3-k4+ DD	1.00.95	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SP2 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp SP3 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp	Supported with Cisco Nexus Only Volume expansion & contraction is not supported

SLES 11

Host Bus Adapter		HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
IBM	Emulex	8.2.8.14	1.41a2 FV1.90	Device Mapper Multipath Veritas Storage Foundation Version 6.0 DMP	High-Availability-Extension / OpenAIS ( HAE - native cl uster ) Veritas Cluster Server Version 6.0	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SLES11 U0 SLES11U1 ( with latest patches )	For details on configuring Multipathing please visit this Link
	LP10000 LP11000 LP1150		1.41a2 FV1.90
	LP10002		1.41a2 FV1.91a5
42D0485 42D0494	LP12000 LPe12000 LPe12002		FV 2.50a6
	Emulex 42C2071		FV 2.50a6
IBM	QLogic	8.02.01.03.11.0-k9	v3.03.27
	QLA2342		v3.03.27
	QLA2460		4.06.02
	QLA2462
	QLE2560
	QLE2562
	QLE2460
	QLE2462
42C1830	QMI8142	8.03.00.08.10.3-k4+ DD	1.00.95
IBM	Brocade
59Y1987 59Y1993 46M6049 46M6050	Brocade 415 Brocade 815 Brocade 425 Brocade 825	1.1.0.x 2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	1.1.0.x 2.1.0.x 2.3.0.x 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No
	Brocade 1860	3.0.0 3.0.x.0	3.0.0 3.0.x.0				32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SLES11 U1
CNA Support
42C1820	Brocade 1010/1020	2.1.0.x 3.0.x.0	2.1.0.x 3.0.x.0	Device Mapper Multipath	No	No	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Platforms SLES11 U0	Supported with Brocade Fabric Only For details on configuring Multipathing please visit this Link
iSCSI Support
IBM	Qlogic
	QLE-SR-CK 8140	2.1.4-NAPI	1.7	Yes	No	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Systems SLES11 U0	SAN Boot is supported in Network Boot configurations ie PXE
	QLE-SR-CK 8042	2.1.4-NAPI	1.7	Yes	No	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Systems SLES11 U0
IBM	Emulex
	Oce10102-I	2.103.269.28 (be2net)	2.103.269.30	Yes	No	Yes	32 & 64 bit Intel/AMD Based Systems SLES11 U0	0102-NX-X, iSCSI SAN Boot supported in Network Boot Configurations. 2.Oce10102-I & Oce10102-N-X with iSCSI personality enabled, are hardware iSCSI
	Oce10102-NX-X
	Oce10102-N-X (with iSCSI Personality enabled )

Debian

Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Platform	Notes
Emulex					Volume expansion & contraction is not supported Your Debian server may require a reboot if the IBM Storwize V7000 is restarted
LPe11000	8.2.6	2.50A6	multipath-tools-0.4.8	x86_32
QLogic
QLA2460	8.02.01-k4	3.03.21	multipath-tools-0.4.8	x86_64

z/VM

IBM	Platform	Notes
z/VM 5.3.0 and later supports Emulated Device (EDEVICE) attachment for all EDEVICE use including paging, spooling, minidisks, and system IPL. z/VM 5.3.0 and later also supports guest attachment via dedicated FCP subchannels.	System z	The following z/VM PTFs are required for EDEVICE use: 5.3.0 - UM32869 5.4.0 - UM32870, UM32716 6.1.0 - UM32871 EDEVICE restriction: I/O must be quiesced during Concurrent Code Load (CCL) of a IBM Storwize V7000 cluster See Linux for System z and z/VSE info for support details regarding guest attachment via dedicated FCP subchannels.

Novell OES2/Xen

Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Platform	Notes

Emulex	8.1.10.3	2.50A6 (Z2F2.50A6)	IA32EM64T, Opteron, Xeon (64 bit)	Volume expansion & contraction is not supported
LPe11002

HP-UX 11i v1 for PA-RISC (64-bit only)

Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version
A5158A	B.11.11.12 B.11.11.0806 B.11.11.0812	PV Links	Service Guard V11.16	Yes	HP 9000 Series Servers (PA-RISC 64bit only)
A6795A	B.11.11.12 B.11.11.0806 B.11.11.0812
A6826A	B.11.11.13 B.11.11.16 B.11.11.17
A9782A
A9784A
AB378A
AB379A
AB378B
AB379B
AB465A
AD193A
AD194A

HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) for PA RISC and Itanium

Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	Multipathing	San Boot	Clustering	Platform & OS Version
A5158A	B.11.23.0512 B.11.23.0812	PV Links	Yes	Service Guard V11.17 Service Guard V11.18	HP 9000 Series Servers (PA-RISC 64bit) & HP Itanium ServersThe following patches should be applied to the base OS: BUNDLE11i(B.11.23.0409.3) HWEnable11i(B.11.23.0706.064) FEATURE11i(B.11.23.0706.063) QPK1123(B.11.23.0706.064) Set PV (Physical Volume) timeout to 60 seconds when using PV Links. This is to avoid I/O timeouts during fabric maintenance and IBM Storwize V7000 CCLs (Concurrent code loads) BUNDLE11i B.11.23.0409.3 Required Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), FEATURE11i B.11.23.0803.070a Feature Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v2, HWEnable11i B.11.23.0712.070 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v2, OnlineDiag B.11.23.10.05 HPUX 11.23 Support Tools Bundle, QPKAPPS B.11.23.0806.072 Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v2, QPKBASE B.11.23.0806.072 Base Quality Pack Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2, HPUX11i-OE-MC B.11.23.0712 HP-UX Mission Critical Operating Environment Component Please visit this Flash if using Oracle ASM with HPUX
A6795A	B.11.23.0512 B.11.23.0812
A6826A	B.11.23.0802 B.11.23.0803 B.11.23.0806 B.11.23.0903
A9782A
A9784A
AB378A
AB379A
AB378B
AB379B
AB465A
AD193A
AD194A
AD300A					HP Itanium Servers only

HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) for PA RISC and Itanium

Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	Multipathing	San Boot	Clustering	Platform & OS Version
A6795A A5158A	FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0803 FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0809 FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0812 FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0903	HP Native Multipath	Yes	ServiceGuard 11.18 11.19	HP 9000 Series Servers (PA-RISC 64bit) & HP Itanium Servers HP requires a disk mapped at LUN0 in order to support CCL (Command Control LUN) and for disk discovery to take place HWEnable11i(B.11.31.0803.318a) FEATURE11i(B.11.31.0803.318b) QPKAPPS(B.11.31.0803.318a) QPKBASE(B.11.31.0803.318a) Please visit this Flash if using Oracle ASM with HPUX

AB378A AB378B AB379A AB379B AB465A AD193A AD194A A9782A A9784A A6826A	FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0803 FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0809 FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0812 FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0903


AD300A	FibreChannel-00 B.11.31.0903		No	Veritas Storage Foundation HA v5.0 MP2 Veritas Cluster Server VCS5.0MP2HF2 Please use the following asl-apm package	HP Itanium Servers Only Please visit this Flash if using Oracle ASM with HPUX
AH400A AH401A	FibreChannel-00 B11.31.1003			ServiceGuard 11.19

SunOS 5.8/Solaris 8 (32 and 64 bit Sparc)

	Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	FCode	Multipathing	San Boot	Clustering	Platform
Sun-Badged QLogic (qlc driver) QLogic (qlc driver)	X6799A X6727A SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB QLx23xx (2GB) QLx24xx (4GB)	Supplied with SAN package which includes the drivers Select StorageTek SAN 4.4.x on this link.	Supplied with SAN package	MPxIO (included in SAN package)	No	No	Sparc

Sun Badged Emulex (emlxs driver) Emulex (emlxs driver)	SG-XPCIxxx (2GB ) SG-XPCIxxx (4GB) All Emulex models listed here	Supplied with SAN package which includes the drivers Select StorageTek SAN 4.4.x on this link.	Supplied with SAN package

SunOS 5.9/Solaris 9 (32 and 64 bit Sparc)

	Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	FCode	Multipathing	San Boot	Clustering	Platform
Sun-Badged QLogic (qlc driver) QLogic (qlc driver)	X6799A X6727A SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB QLx23xx (2GB) QLx24xx (4GB)	Supplied with SAN package which includes the drivers Select StorageTek SAN 4.4.x on this link.	Supplied with SAN package	Veritas DMP 5.0 (VxVM 5.0MP1RP3 or later required) ( download latest ASL here )	No	SFHA/SFRAC 5.0 MP1 (requires latest ASL available from Symantec)	Sparc
			Supplied with SAN package	MPxIO Guidance on Configuring Solaris MPXIO for use with IBM Storwize V7000 Volumes	Yes	SUN Cluster 3.1 & 3.2 (IBM Storwize V7000Supports up to 4-node SUN clusters)
Sun Badged Emulex (emlxs driver) Emulex (emlxs driver)	SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB All Emulex models listed here	Supplied with SAN package which includes the drivers Select StorageTek SAN 4.4.x on this link.	Supplied with SAN package	Veritas DMP 5.0 (VxVM 5.0MP1RP3 or later required) ( download latest ASL here )	No	SFHA/SFRAC 5.0 MP1
Sun Badged Emulex (emlxs driver) Emulex (emlxs driver)			Supplied with SAN package	MPxIO Guidance on Configuring Solaris MPXIO for use with IBM Storwize V7000 Volumes	Yes	SUN Cluster 3.1 & 3.2 (IBM Storwize V7000 Supports up to 4-node SUN clusters)

SunOS 5.10/Solaris 10 (64 bit)

Host Bus Adapter Vendor	Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	FCode	Multipathing	San Boot	Clustering	Platform
Sun-Badged QLogic (qlc driver) Qlogic (qlc driver)	SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB SG-QF8xxx 8GB QLx23xx (2GB) QLx24xx (4GB) QLx25xx (8GB)	Part of OS	Supplied with SAN package	5.0 (VxVM 5.0MP1RP3 or later required) ( download latest ASL here )	SPARC: Yes ( requires kernel patch 118833-36 and qlc driver 119130-33 + 125166-05) x86: No	SFHA/SFRAC 5.0 MP1	Sparc & x86

	SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB QLx23xx (2GB)			MPxIO Guidance on Configuring Solaris MPXIO for use with IBM Storwize V7000 Volumes	Yes	SUN Cluster 3.1 3.3 IBM Storwize V7000 Supports up to 4-node SUN clusters	Sparc
	SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB SG-QF8xxx 8GB QLx23xx (2GB) QLx24xx (4GB) QLx25xx (8GB)					SUN Cluster 3.2 IBM Storwize V7000 Supports up to 4-node SUN clusters	Sparc & x86

	X6799A X6727A	v20060630-21	2.1.144	MPxIO	No	SUN Cluster 3.1 3.3 IBM Storwize V7000 Supports up to 4 nodes per cluster	Sparc
Sun Badged Emulex (emlxs driver) Emulex (emlxs driver)	SG-XPCIxxx 2GB SG-XPCIxxx 4GB SG-XPCIxxx 8GB All Emulex Fibre Channel models listed here	Part of OS	Supplied with SAN package	MPxIO Guidance on Configuring Solaris MPXIO for use with IBM Storwize V7000 Volumes	Yes	SUN Cluster 3.1 3.3 IBM Storwize V7000 Supports up to 4-node SUN clusters	Sparc
						SUN Cluster 3.2 IBM Storwize V7000 Supports up to 4-node SUN clusters	Sparc & x86
				Veritas DMP 5.0 (VxVM 5.0MP1RP3 or later required) ( download latest ASL here )	Sparc: Yes x86: No	SFHA/SFRAC 5.0 MP1	Sparc & x86

Brocade	815 825	2.1.0.1		MPxIO Guidance on Configuring Solaris MPXIO for use with IBM Storwize V7000 Volumes	No	No	Sparc & x86
iSCSI Support
IBM	Qlogic
	QLE-SR-CK 8140	Driver installed with OS: Driver Name: qlc Driver Version: 20100301-3.00	03.05.02	Yes	No	SPARC (SunOS 5.10 Generic_142909-17)
	QLE-SR-CK 8042
IBM	Emulex
	Oce10102-I	If not readily available – Download Drivers Here	2.103.397.13 Required Levels Can Be Downloaded Here	Yes	No	SPARC (SunOS 5.10 Generic_142909-17)
	Oce10102-NX-X
	Oce10102-N-X (with iSCSI Personality enabled )

Novell Netware 6.5

	Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version
QLogic	QLA2310/F QLA2310/FL	6.90o	BIOS 1.52	Native Netware Multipathing Driver	Novell Cluster Services v1.7 & V1.84	No	IA32_Based Servers (32 bit) 6.5 SP6 IBM has seen an issue with path recovery after a node has been removed from the IBM Storwize V7000 cluster for an extended period. If this issue is encountered manual rescan of paths is required
	QLA2340 QLA2340L
	QLA2342 QLA2342L
	QLA2462

[VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager ( SRM )

VMware vStorage API for Array Integration ( VAAI )

VAAI Version	Notes
1.2	Please follow this link to download the VAAI Package for V7000 Note no API os required for ESX/ESXi Version 5

VMware Fibre Channel

VMware 3.5, 3.51, 3.52 & 3.53 & 3.54 & 3.55

ESX	Host Bus Adapter	OS	Multipathing	Note	Additional information
V3.5	Supported Fibre Channel adapters Listed in the VMware I/O compatibility guide Hardware iSCSI Adapters are currently not supported with V7000	Windows 2003 32 & 64Bit Windows 2000 Server SP4	VMWare Native Multipathing	(Standard, Web, Enterprise Editions, and R2), including Service Packs (SP1 and SP2) as noted in VMware Guest Operating System Guide	Additional information : Guest O/S Guide VI3 SAN Guide IBM Storwize V7000 support both fixed path and MRU. IBM Storwize V7000 supports VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)



		Windows 2000 MSCS		VMWare 3.5 U3 and higher Windows Clustering support applies to Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 2003 RTM, SP 1, R2 and SP 2. For ESX version requirements for these operating systems in cluster environment, please refer to ESX Server Support. Clustering is supported only with a limited set of HBAs; please refer to the I/O Compatibility Guide for the list of HBAs not supported with Windows Clustering
		Windows 2003 32 & 64Bit MSCS
		Windows 2008 Enterprise SP1
		Windows NT4 SP6a		As specified in VMware Guest Operating System Guide
		Windows XP Pro SP2		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		Windows Vista		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		Red Hat 2.1 ES/AS/WS Update 6 & 7
		Red Hat 3.0 Update 6,7 & 8 32 & 64Bit
		RHEL4 U3 and U4 32 & 64Bit
		RHEL4 U5 32 & 64Bit		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		RHEL5 32 & 64Bit		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		RHEL Desktop 5 32 & 64Bit		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		SLES 8 SP4
		SLES 9 SP 3 32 & 64Bit
		SLES10 SP1 32 & 64Bit
		CentOS 5.2
		Novell Netware 6.5
		Solaris 10			Supported with Emulex HBAs and raw disks only.

VMware ( ESX/ESXi ) vSphere 4.x and 5.x Fibre Channel

ESX	Host Bus Adapter	OS	Multipathing	Note	Additional information
V4.0 V4.0U1 V4.0U2 V4.1 V4.1U1 V5.0	Supported Fibre Channel adapters Listed in the VMware I/O compatibility guide Hardware iSCSI Adapters are currently not supported with V7000	Windows 2003 32 & 64Bit Windows 2000 Server SP4	VMware Native Multipathing	(Standard, Web, Enterprise Editions, and R2), including Service Packs (SP1 and SP2) as noted in VMware Guest Operating System Guide	Please visit the VMWare Hardware compatibility guide



		Windows 2008 Enterprise SP1
		Windows NT4 SP6a		As specified in VMware Guest Operating System Guide
		Windows XP Pro SP2		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		Windows Vista		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		Red Hat 2.1 ES/AS/WS Update 6 & 7
		Red Hat 3.0 Update 6,7 & 8 32 & 64Bit
		RHEL4 U3 and U4 32 & 64Bit
		RHEL4 U5 32 & 64Bit
		RHEL5 32 & 64Bit
		RHEL Desktop 5 32 & 64Bit
		SLES 8 SP4		select only the LSI virtual driver when configuring this guest
		SLES 9 SP 3 32 & 64Bit
		SLES10 SP1 32 & 64Bit
		SLES11 32 & 64Bit
		CentOS 5.2
		Novell Netware 6.5
		Solaris 10		VMware ESX Server 4.0.0, build 164009 San Boot VMFS Only

VMware ( ESX/ESXi ) iSCSI

Version	Host Bus Adapter	Guest OS	SAN Boot	Multipathing	Notes
VMware ESX & ESXi 4.1 and 4.1U1 VMware ESXi 5 1Gbps and 10Gbps iSCSI	N/A Supported with Software initiator only	Windows 2003	Currently not supported	VMware Native Multipathing ( With all VMware multipathing policies )	Supported only with the VMware Software iSCSI Initiator Hardware Initiators are not supported at this time Storwize V7000 Version 6.3.0.1 supports multi session VMware iSCSI. Earlier 6.x Versions support single session only For Further information on VMware iSCSI Support Please Visit the VMware iSCSI Errata
		Windows 2008
		RHEL4
		RHEL5
		RHEL6
		RHEL6.1
		SLES10
		SLES11
		Solaris10

Tru64
---

Host Bus Adapter	Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
KGPSA-CA	Driver Supplied with Operating System	3.92A2 3.93A0	Native Tru64 Multipathing Driver	TruCluster Server Software	Yes on HP AlphaServer hosts	AlphaServer 5.1B 5.1B-1 (PK 3) 5.1B-2 (PK 4) 5.1B-3 (PK 5) 5.1B-4 (PK 6) 5.1B-5 (PK 7)	LUN numbering: When mapping vdisks to hosts, only LUNs in the range 0 to 254 can be used Expanding Volumes on the IBM Storwize V7000 is supported (upon volume expansion, the disk label still shows original size however the disk needs to be re labelled and AdvFS file system extended) Shrinking IBM Storwize V7000 Volumes is not supported IBM Storwize V7000 Copy Services Configuration / LUN Synthesis: With AdvFS, it is possible to map a FC target to the same machine as a FC source. In order to use the same domain name, manual link to the new disk (ln -s /dev/disk/dskNc) has to be created in the /etc/fdmns/domain_name directory
KGPSA-DA (FCA2354)		3.92A2 3.93A0
KGPSA-EA (FCA2384)		1.90A4 1.91x1 1.91x6
FCA2684		1.90A4 1.91x1 1.91x6

OpenVMS

OpenVMS Alpha

Host Bus Adapter	Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
KGPSA-CA	Driver Supplied with Operating System	3.92A2 3.93A0	Native Multipathing	Yes	Yes	AlphaServer 8.2 8.3	Both Alpha and Integrity (I64) Servers are supported LUN numbering: When mapping vdisks to hosts, only LUNs in the range 0 to 254 can be used IBM Storwize V7000 Volume Expansion and contraction is not supported Minimum supported IBM Storwize V7000 level 6.2.0.3. Please refer to the following documentation regarding requirements when upgrading to 6.2.0.3 from earlier versions of IBM Storwize V7000.
KGPSA-DA (FCA2354)		3.92A2 3.93A0
KGPSA-EA (FCA2384)		1.90A4 1.91x1 1.91x6
FCA2684

OpenVMS Integrity (I64)

Host Bus Adapter	Driver	HBA Firmware	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Platform & OS Version	Notes
AB378B	Driver Supplied with Operating System	2.15 EFI Driver 5 Mar 2010 2.20 EFI Driver 17 May 2010	Native Multipathing	Yes	Yes	Integrity (I64) 8.2-1 8.3 8.3-1H1 8.4	Both Alpha and Integrity (I64) Servers are supported LUN numbering: When mapping vdisks to hosts, only LUNs in the range 0 to 254 can be used. SAN Volume Controller Volume Expansion and contraction is not supported. Minimum supported SAN Volume Controller level 6.2.0.3. Please refer to the following documentation regarding requirements when upgrading to 6.2.0.3 from earlier versions of SVC.
AB379B AB379-60101		1.76af-2.08 BIOS/2.04 EFI 1 Dec 2009 1.89 -2.15 BIOS/ 2.20 EFI 26 May 2010
AD299A		EFI 4.00a8, FW 2.80a4 10 Sep 2010
AD355A AD355-60001

IBM N series Gateway and NetApp

NetApp & IBM N Series Gateways
NetApp & N Series Gateway support is available with IBM Storwize V7000 6.3.x for selected configurations via RPQ only. Please contact your IBM representative or authorized IBM Business Partner to request support.

z/VSE

IBM	Platform	Notes
z/VSE 4.2 and later z/VSE support also includes System IPL	System z	Please visit the z/VSE Homepage for further information on support

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.x & 10.6.x (32bit)

Operating System	Host Bus Adapter	ATTO Multipathing/HBA Driver	ATTO Configuration Tool	Fcode/BIOS Version	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot
	Atto Celerity	1.27MP	3.32	2008_08_26	Mac OS X Flash Bundle 2009_11_13 Atto Multipath Driver Version 3.27MP Atto Multipath Driver Version 3.27MP	No	No
Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4 Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.5	FC-41ES FC-42ES FC-44ES
Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.x Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6.x (32bit)	FC-81EN FC-82EN FC-84EN	1.32MP	3.32	2010_07_28	ATTO Multipath Driver version 1.3.2 Mac OS X Flash Bundle 2010_07_28

CITRIX XEN SERVER Enterprise Edition

Host Bus Adapter	HBA Driver	FCode	Multipathing	Guest Operating Systems Supported	San Boot	Clustering	Platform & OS Version	Notes
QLE2462	8.01.7.15	built into Citrix XenServer v4.1.0	Device-Mapper (device-mapper-1.02.20-1.el5) Multipath utility: device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-12.el5	RHEL5 SLES10 Windows 2003	No	No	XEN SERVER Enterprise Edition v4.1.0 V5.5 V5.6 FP1	Citrix Support Matrix Please see the Information Center for support and configuration details

IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway

IBM System Storage	Operating System	Multipath Driver	SAN Boot Support	Clustering Support	Notes
TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway	ProtecTIER	Native	No	ProtecTIERCluster	IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTier De-duplication Gateway Please see the Information Center for support and configuration details

Support for BladeServer Configurations

IBM Storwize V7000 supports Server Blades that meet all of the following criteria; 1. The Server blade contains Qlogic and Emulex generic chip sets running the IBM or equivalent supported Drivers; and 2. These generic chip sets and drivers are present in the IBM Storwize V7000 support matrix for HBAs used in non Blade servers; and 3. The Server blade is running an OS that is present in the IBM Storwize V7000 support matrix; and 4. Either a Fibre Channel pass through module is used in the Blade server chassis to connect the Blades to an external FC network; or The Fibre Channel switch module used in the Blade server chassis is equivalent (in the sense it runs the same microcode on the same switch hardware base) to a discrete Fibre Channel switch that is already listed in the IBM Storwize V7000 support matrix.

Examples of specific BladeCentre configurations that IBM includes in IBM Storwize V7000 interoperability testing currently include:

HS & LS Intel & AMD Models

IBM Server	Blade Operating System	HBA	HBA Driver	HBA BIOS	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Notes
For HBA to Chassis compatibility please visit the follow Link & select your Bladecenter Model Bladecenter HS20 ( 8843,8852,7989 ) Bladecenter LS20 ( 8850,8852,7989 )	Windows 2003 (32 and 64 bit)	Qlogic QLA2342	Emulex 2.10A7 Qlogic 9.1.2.19 9.1.7.16 9.1.8.25	BIOS 1.52	SDDDSM 2.4.1.2-2 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.2.0-1 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 (Uses MPIO)	IBM Storwize V7000 supports up to 8 Windows 2003 nodes per MSCS cluster	Yes



		IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462		Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24)	DMPDSM	MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1	No	Supported in both 32bit & 64bit windows 2003
					Veritas DMP	VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability v5.0 & v5.1	No
		IBM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	2.20.0006	2.70a5
	Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bit) Windows 2008 R2	IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462	Emulex 2.10A7 Qlogic 9.1.2.19 9.1.7.16 9.1.8.25	Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24) BIOS 2.10	DMPDSM	VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.1	No	Supported in both 32bit & 64bit windows 2008 Follow this link for installation of device drivers.
				Please follow the driver link for BIOS levels	SDDDSM 2.2.0.0-11 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.0.0-9 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.1.1-1 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.1.2-2 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.2.0-1 (Uses MPIO) SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 (Uses MPIO)	Yes	Yes
		IBM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	2.20.0006	2.70a5
	Red Hat EL Advanced Server 4.0 U4 through U8 (32 and 64 bit)	IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462 IBM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	In Distro Driver	Qlogic Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24) Emulex 2.72a2	SDD 1.6.3.0-5 SDD 1.6.3.0-6 SDD 1.6.3.0-7 SDD 1.6.3.0-8 SDD 1.6.3.0-9	Yes	Steeleye Lifekeeper 6.3.0 Steeleye Lifekeeper V7	Emulex and QLogic the scsi_timeout value must be set to 60 (default is 30) Parameter settings for QLogic : ql2xfailover=0 ql2xcmdtimermin=15 ql2xmaxqdepth=4 ConfigRequired=0
					Veritas DMP	No	VSF 4.1 with Maintenance Pack 3 (MP3) (consisting of ASL, APM and DMP fix for SAN.VC array)	Supported with 32bit platforms only
							VSF 5.0 HA Maintenance Pack 3
					Device Mapper Multipath	Yes	RHEL Cluster Server	Supported with Qlogic HBA's Only SAN boot (IPL) is supported from IBM Storwize V7000 however the IPL processes can fail because there is no multipath support during the boot processes GFS Li 6.1 is supported with local boot. For RHEL Cluster Server with Emulex HBAs timeout value should be set to 60 (Default 30)



	Red Hat EL Advanced Server 5.0 (32 and 64 bit)	IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462 IBM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	In Distro Driver	Qlogic Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24) Emulex (2.72a2 2.82a3)	device-mapper-multipath	Yes	RedHat Cluster Server	SAN boot (IPL) is supported from IBM Storwize V7000 however the IPL processes can fail because there is no multipath support during the boot process Remove the ql2xfailover=0 parameter from the IBM modprobe.conf Supported with Emulex 11000 and QLogic 2460
						No	Steeleye Lifekeeper 6.3.0 Steeleye Lifekeeper V7
					Veritas DMP (RedHat 5.2 through 5.5)	Yes	Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 MP3	For Emulex & Qlogic the SCSI timout value must be set to 60 ( default is 20 )



	SLES 9 (32 and 64 bit)	IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462 BM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC I	Qlogic 8.01.06 Emulex 8.0.16.46	Qlogic BIOS 1.52 Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24) Emulex 2.72a2 2.82a3	SDD 1.6.3.0-5 SDD 1.6.3.0-6 SDD 1.6.3.0-7 SDD 1.6.3.0-8	Yes (see Supported Hardware List )	No	We recommend using the 2.6.5-7.308-smp kernel. 2.6.5-7.193 and 2.6.5-7.257 kernels are not supported
					device-mapper-multipath	No	Linux-HA Heartbeat 1.2.5 Steeleye Lifekeeper 6.3.0 Steeleye Lifekeeper V7
					Veritas DMP	No	VSF 5.0 HA Maintenance Pack 3
	SLES 10 SP1 through SP4	BM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462 IBM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	Qlogic 8.01.06 Emulex 8.0.16.27 8.2.0.39	Qlogic BIOS 1.52 Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24) Emulex 2.72a2 2.82a3	device-mapper-multipath	Yes	Native Cluster With Heartbeat / Stonith Version 2.0.8.0-19	Vdisk expansion & contraction is not supported IBM Storwize V7000 Supports two node Native Clusters
					HPDM Multipathing	No	ServiceGuard A.11.18.00
					Veritas DMP 5.0	Yes	Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 MP3
	SLES 11	IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card IBM 26K4841 - Qlogic QLA2342 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462 BM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	In Distro Driver	Qlogic BIOS 1.52 Multiflash Image 1.56 (BIOS 1.24) Emulex 2.72a2 2.82a3	device-mapper-multipath	Yes (see Notes)	High-Availability-Extension / OpenAIS (HAE - native cluster) sle-hae-release-11-1.12 openais-0.80-3-26.1	Single path SAN boot Problem: SLES 11Server x86_64 doesn't boot after OS installation on SAN disk. Problem appears when Adaptec Raid controller BIOS (local disk) and Emulex HBA BIOS are active. Solution: Host boots from SAN disk when local disk controller BIOS is disabled. Expand / shrink vdisk Warning: data loss possible !!!!! Documentation: SLES 11 Storage Administration Guide - Chapter 5


	VMware	For HBA Support Please see VMware I/O compatibility guide For BladeCenter supported VMware levels please visit IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide For IBM Storwize V7000 supported OS levels please visit VMware OS Supported Levels

IBM Server

HBA

HBA Firmware / BIOS

HBA Driver

Multipathing

Clustering

SAN Boot

Notes

Bladecenter HX5

Bladecenter HS21
( 8853)

Bladecenter HS21
XM( 7995 )

Bladecenter HS22
( 7870,7809)

Bladecenter HS22v
( 7871 )

Bladecenter LS21
( 7971 )

Bladecenter LS22
( 7901 )

Bladecenter LS41
( 7972 )

Bladecenter LS42
( 7902 )

For HBA to Chassis compatibility please visit the follow Link & select your Bladecenter Model

Windows 2003
(32 and 64 bit)
SP2
R2 SP2

IBM 43W6859 - Emulex 4Gb CFFv
IBM 46M6140 - Emulex LPe1205 8Gbps CIOv

IBM 24R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462S
IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472
IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472
IBM 44X1940 - Qlogic QMI3572
IBM 44X1945 - Qlogic QMI2582
IBM 46M6065 - Qlogic QMI2572

IBM 90Y3566
IBM 90Y3550 + P/N 49Y4265
P/N 90Y3550 + P/N 49Y4235

Emulex
2.70a5
1.11a9

Qlogic
4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

Emulex
2.10A7

Qlogic
9.1.2.19
9.1.7.16
9.1.8.25

9.1.8.35
(With SAN Boot on 44X1940, 44X1945 & 46M6065 Only )
(STORport)

SDDDSM 2.4.1.2-2 (Uses MPIO)
SDDDSM 2.4.2.0-1 (Uses MPIO)
SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 (Uses MPIO)

IBM Storwize V7000 supports up to 8 Windows 2003 nodes per MSCS cluster

Yes
( Yes with 9.1.8.35
on 44X1940, 44X1945 & 46M6065 Only )

Supported in both 32bit & 64bit windows

With 90Y3566 & 90Y3550+ the BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (PN 46C7191) and QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module (PN 46M6172) are required components.
PN 90Y3550 must be upgraded with PN 49Y4265 (Advanced Upgrade). pNIC mode only when used with the IBM Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module (P/N 69Y1909) pNIC or vNIC1 mode when used with the IBM BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (P/N 46C7191)

DMPDSM

MSCS with Veritas Volume Manager 5.1

Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation DMP v5.0 & v5.1

VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability v5.0 & v5.1

Windows 2008
(32 and 64 bit)
Windows 2008
SP1, SP2, R2

IBM 43W6859 - Emulex 4Gb CFFv
IBM 46M6140 - Emulex 8Gbps CIOv

IBM 24R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462S
IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472
IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472
IBM 44X1940 - Qlogic QMI3572
IBM 44X1945 - Qlogic QMI2582
IBM 46M6065 - Qlogic QMI2572

IBM 42C1830 - Qlogic QMI8142
2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh)

IBM 90Y3566
IBM 90Y3550 + P/N 49Y4265
P/N 90Y3550 + P/N 49Y4235

Emulex
2.70a5
1.11a9

Qlogic
4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

Qlogic CNA
Multiboot Image 1.01.92

Emulex
2.10A7

Qlogic
9.1.2.19
9.1.7.16
9.1.8.25

9.1.8.35
( With SAN Boot on 44X1940, 44X1945 & 46M6065 Only )
(STORport)

Qlogic CNA
9.1.8.26

DMPDSM

VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability Clustering 5.1

MPIO)
SDDDSM 2.4.1.2-2 (Uses MPIO)
SDDDSM 2.4.2.0-1 (Uses MPIO)
SDDDSM 2.4.2.1-2 (Uses MPIO)

Yes

Yes

No S an Boot with 42C1830

With 90Y3566 & 90Y3550+ the BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (PN 46C7191) and QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module (PN 46M6172) are required components.
PN 90Y3550 must be upgraded with PN 49Y4265 (Advanced Upgrade). pNIC mode only when used with the IBM Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module (P/N 69Y1909) pNIC or vNIC1 mode when used with the IBM BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (P/N 46C7191)

RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
U5 through U8

Emulex
2.70a5
1.11a9

Qlogic
4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

Emulex
8.0.16.40

Qlogic
In Distro Driver

Veritas DMP

VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability v5.0 & v5.1

Device Mapper Multipath

Yes

RHEL Cluster Server

Supported with Qlogic HBA's Only

SAN boot (IPL) is supported from IBM Storwize V7000 however the IPL processes can fail because there is no multipath support
during the boot processes
GFS Li 6.1 is supported with local boot.
For RHEL Cluster Server with Emulex HBAs timeout value should be set to 60 (Default 30)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 through 5.7

Emulex
2.70a5
1.11a9

Qlogic
4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

Qlogic CNA
Multiboot Image 1.01.92

Qlogic, Emulex
In Distro Driver

Qlogic CNA 8.03.00.09.05.04-k

5.5 In Distro

device-mapper-multipath

Yes
No San Boot with 42C1830

Red Hat Cluster Server

SAN boot (IPL) is supported from IBM Storwize V7000however the IPL processes can fail because there is no multipath support
during the boot process

Remove the ql2xfailover=0 parameter from the IBM modprobe.conf

Supported with Emulex 11000 and QLogic 2460
With 90Y3566 & 90Y3550+ the BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (PN 46C7191) and QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module (PN 46M6172) are required components.
PN 90Y3550 must be upgraded with PN 49Y4265 (Advanced Upgrade). pNIC mode only when used with the IBM Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module (P/N 69Y1909) pNIC or vNIC1 mode when used with the IBM BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (P/N 46C7191)

Steeleye Lifekeeper 6.3.0
Steeleye Lifekeeper V7

Veritas DMP
(RedHat 5.2 through 5.5)

Yes
No San Boot with 42C1830

VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability v5.0 & v5.1

For Emulex & Qlogic the SCSI time out value must be set to 60 ( default is 20 )

SLES 9

IBM 24R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462S
IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472
IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472
IBM 44X1940 - Qlogic QMI3572

4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

In Distro Driver

device-mapper-multipath

Linux-HA Heartbeat 1.2.5
Steeleye Lifekeeper 6.3.0
Steeleye Lifekeeper V7

We recommend using the 2.6.5-7.308-smp kernel.

2.6.5-7.193 and 2.6.5-7.257 kernels are not supported

Veritas DMP

VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability v5.0 & v5.1

SLES 10
SP1,SP2,SP3

Emulex
2.70a5
1.11a9

Qlogic
4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

Qlogic CNA
Multiboot Image 1.01.92

Qlogic, Emulex
In Distro Driver

Qlogic CNA In Distro Driver

device-mapper-multipath

Yes
No San Boot with 42C1830

Native Cluster
With Heartbeat / Stonith Version
2.0.8.0-19

Vdisk expansion & contraction is not supported

IBM Storwize V7000 Supports two node Native Clusters
With 90Y3566 & 90Y3550+ the BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (PN 46C7191) and QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module (PN 46M6172) are required components.
PN 90Y3550 must be upgraded with PN 49Y4265 (Advanced Upgrade). pNIC mode only when used with the IBM Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module (P/N 69Y1909) pNIC or vNIC1 mode when used with the IBM BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (P/N 46C7191)

VeritasDMP

Yes
No San Boot with 42C1830

VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability v5.0 & v5

SLES 11
SLES11 SP1

Emulex
2.70a5
1.11a9

Qlogic
4Gbps
Bios 2.04
FW 4.0.0.27
8Gbps
Bios 2.09
FW 5.03.06

Qlogic CNA
Multiboot Image 1.01.92

Qlogic, Emulex
In Distro Driver

Qlogic CNA In Distro Driver

device-mapper-multipath

Yes
(see Notes)

High-Availability-Extension /
OpenAIS (HAE - native cluster)
sle-hae-release-11-1.12
openais-0.80-3-26.1

Single path SAN boot
Problem: SLES 11Server x86_64 doesn't boot after OS installation on SAN disk. Problem appears when Adaptec Raid controller BIOS (local disk) and Emulex HBA BIOS are active.
Solution: Host boots from SAN disk when local disk controller BIOS is disabled.

Expand / shrink vdisk
Warning: data loss possible !!!!!
Documentation: SLES 11 Storage Administration Guide - Chapter 5
With 90Y3566 & 90Y3550+ the BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (PN 46C7191) and QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module (PN 46M6172) are required components.
PN 90Y3550 must be upgraded with PN 49Y4265 (Advanced Upgrade). pNIC mode only when used with the IBM Brocade Converged 10GbE Switch Module (P/N 69Y1909) pNIC or vNIC1 mode when used with the IBM BNT 10 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module (P/N 46C7191)

VMware ESX
( Please See VMware tables for supported ESX levels
& Guest OS )

IBM 24R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462S
IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472
IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472
IBM 44X1940 - Qlogic QMI3572
IBM 44X1945 - Qlogic QMI2582
IBM 46M6065 - Qlogic QMI2572

For HBA Support Please see
VMware I/O compatibility guide

For BladeCenter supported VMware levels please visit
IBM BladeCenter Interoperability Guide

Provided by VMware

Native VMware Multipathing

Boot for Guest Operating Systems and Servers

Clustering of VMware servers
Clustering of Guest OS is supported on VMware ESX 3.5
See Supported Hardware List for specific OS

IBM 42C1830 - Qlogic QMI8142
2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh)

JS Power Models

IBM Server	Blade Operating System	HBA	HBA Driver	Multipathing	Clustering	SAN Boot	Notes
Bladeserver JS12 ( 7998 )	Red Hat EL 5 (through update 5) System P	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252 IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472FC 8248 IBM 43W6859 - Emulex 4Gb CFFv FC 8251	Driver included in distro	device-mapper-multipath	No	No
	SLES 10			device-mapper-multipath	No	Yes
	AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1		Driver included in TL Level	SDDPCM 2.6.0.3 2.6.1.0	HACMP 6.1 7.1	Yes

	VIOS 2.1.1 Supported with AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 IBM i server V6.1 or higher and Linux	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252	Driver included in VIOS version	MPIO with SDDPCM 2.6.0.3 See Flash for APAR & efix information	No	Yes (IBM Storwize V7000 support for boot from SAN on LPAR for both VIO Server or Guest OS)	(IBM i and VIOS)
		IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472FC 8248					(VIOS only - no IBM i)
		IBM 43W6859 - Emulex 4Gb CFFv FC 8251
Bladeserver JS20 ( 8842 )	AIX 5.3	IBM 26R0884 - Qlogic QMC2462 IBM 48P7061 2Gbps FC Expansion Card
	RHEL4
	SLES8
Bladeserver JS21 ( 8844,7988 )	AIX 5.1	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252 IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472FC 8248 IBM 26R0890 - Qlogic QMC2462s IBM 39Y9186 - Emulex LP1105BC	Driver included in TL Level	Please see OS tables for latest support
	AIX 5.2
	AIX 5.3
	SLES8 SLES9		Driver included in distro

Bladeserver JS22 ( 7998 )	AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252 IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472FC 8248 IBM 43W6859 - Emulex 4Gb CFFv FC 8251	Driver included in TL Level	Please see OS tables for latest support

	SLES10		Driver included in distro
	Red Hat 4.6 Red Hat 4.7
	VIOS 2.1.1 Supported with AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 IBM i server V6.1 or higher and Linux	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252	Driver included in VIOS version	Please see OS tables for latest support			(IBM i and VIOS)
		IBM 41Y8527 - Qlogic QMI2472FC 8248					(VIOS only - no IBM i)
		IBM 43W6859 - Emulex 4Gb CFFv FC 8251
Bladeserver JS23/JS43 ( 7778 ) Power 6	RHEL 5.4 RHEL 5.5	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252 IBM 44X1940 - Qlogic QMI3572 IBM 44X1945 - Qlogic QMI2582 IBM 46M6140 - Emulex LPe1205 8Gbps CIOv IBM 46M6065 - Qlogic QMI2572 4Gbps CIOv	Driver included in distro	Please see OS tables for latest support
	RHEL 4.8
	AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1		Driver included in TL Level

	VIOS 2.x Supported with AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 IBM i server V6.1 or higher and Linux		Driver included in VIOS version

Bladeserver P700 Power 7 Technical overview	RHEL 5.4 RHEL 5.5	IBM 39Y9306 - Qlogic QMI3472FC 8252 IBM 44X1940 - Qlogic QMI3572 IBM 44X1945 - Qlogic QMI2582 IBM 46M6140 - Emulex LPe1205 8Gbps CIOv IBM 46M6065 - Qlogic QMI2572 4Gbps CIOv	Driver included in distro	Please see OS tables for latest support
	RHEL 4.8
	AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1		Driver included in TL Level

	VIOS 2.x Supported with AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 IBM i server V6.1 or higher and Linux		Driver included in VIOS version

HP BladeSystem Support

HP BladeSystem Model	HBA Support	Device Drivers	Supported Operating Systems	Notes
BL30p BL40p BL25p BL35p BL460c BL465c BL480c BL685c	300874-B21 354054-B21 361426-B21 381881-B21 394588-B21 403619-B21	Please Visit the HP Support Website for recommended device driver information	Windows 2000 Server Windows Server 2003 VMware RHEL5

iSCSI Software Intiator Host Attachment

For further information on installing and configuring iSCSI hosts with Storwize V7000 please refer to the following documentation
IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center

Software Initiator Supported Operating Systems ( Please see OS tables for Hardware iSCSI Support )

Only the listed operating systems are supported for attaching hosts to the IBM Storwize V7000 using iSCSI Software Initiators

AIX 5.3
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	No
SAN Boot	No

AIX 6.1
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	No
SAN Boot	No

HP-UX 11i v3
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: HP native multipathing
SAN Boot	No

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: Native multipathing (Device-Mapper)
SAN Boot	No

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: Native multipathing (Device-Mapper)
SAN Boot	No

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: Native multipathing (Device-Mapper)
SAN Boot	No

Solaris 10
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: Sun native multipathing
SAN Boot	No

Microsoft Windows 2003
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: Native multipathing (MPIO)
SAN Boot	No

Microsoft Windows 2008
Supported without multipathing	Yes
Supported with multipathing	Yes: Native multipathing (MPIO)
SAN Boot	No

iSCSI Host Attachment Restrictions

Please visit the restrictions and limitations document for the current iSCSI recommendations

iSCSI Host Attachment Recommendations
These configuration recommendations are not mandatory for a supported configuration.

For best performance:
iSCSI host and IBM Storwize V7000 Ethernet ports should be directly connected to the same switch
Ethernet switches should be used in preference to hubs
iSCSI host and IBM Storwize V7000 node Ethernet ports should be running at the same link speed
For best results, all links used for iSCSI traffic should operate at 1Gb/s full duplex.

If you are using IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) or equivalent application to monitor the performance of your IBM Storwize V7000 cluster, it is recommended to separate this management traffic from iSCSI host I/O traffic, such as using node port 1 for management IPs and node port 2 for iSCSI IPs.

Controllers

Please refer to the Configuration Guide which details the recommended customer configurable settings that should be applied for each storage controller type.

Multipathing

Round Robin: IO is distributed over multiple ports on the controller.
Mdisk Group Balanced: IO is sent to one target port on the controller for each mdisk. The assignment of ports to mdisks is chosen to spread all the mdisks within a mdisk group across all of the active target ports as evenly as possible.
Single port active: All IO is sent to a single port on the controller for all mdisks.
Controller Balanced: IO is sent to one target port on the controller for each mdisk. The assignment of ports to mdisks is chosen to spread all the mdisks accross all of the active target ports as evenly as possible.

IBM DS3000

Controller Model	Firmware	NVSRAM	ESM	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Host Attachment	Mulitpathing	Notes
DS3400	06.70.22.XX 06.70.24.XX 06.70.69.XX 7.35.41.XX 7.35.xx.xx	N1726D340R270V05	0186 or higher	Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	Yes Minimum Firmware Level 07.35.53.xx	FC	Mdisk Group Balancing	Concurrent download of ESM code with I/O is not supported. Do not reboot both controllers simultaneously. Storwize V7000 Supports SAS and SATA Drive configurations. Single Controller configuration is not supported. RAID-5 Array size must be 4+1 or larger. RAID-6 Array size must be 4+1+1 or larger. Ensure Host type is set to "IBM TS SAN VCE". DS3400 maximum LUNs per partition is currently 32, limiting the number of LUNs from a single DS3400 to a single Storwize V7000 cluster to 32 Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Please visit the DS3500 support site for further information
DS3500	07.70.xx.xx 07.77.xx.xx			Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	Yes			Concurrent download of ESM code with I/O is not supported. Ensure Host type is set to "IBM TS SAN VCE". Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Please visit the DS3500 support site for further information
DS3950	07.60.xx.xx 07.70.xx.xx 07.77.xx.xx		Please refer to DS3950 documentation with regard to ESM Download.	Yes	Yes			Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Please visit the DS3500 support site for further information

IBM DS4000

Controller Model	Firmware Release	Storage Manager	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	ESM Support	Multipathing	Notes
DS4100	06.12.56.xx	Download the recommended version of the Storage Manager from the DS4000 website	Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	No	Concurrent download of ESM firmware with I/O is not supported	Mdisk Group Balancing	Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please refer the DS4000 website for the latest recommended DS4000 client software and RDAC levels Please refer the DS4000 website for specific configuration guidelines, cabling requirements & restrictions when attaching EXP810 to DS4300 & DS4500 DS4000 copy services (FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, MetroMirror) can be used with Storwize V7000 RAID-5 Array size must be 4+1 or larger. RAID-6 Array size must be 4+1+1 or larger. DS4000 range maximum LUNs per partition is currently 256, limiting the number of LUNs from a single DS4000 to a single Storwize V7000 cluster to 256. * Please see the following DS4K flashe s DS4200 DS4700 DS4800 If you have 07.36.08.xx code, you MUST contact DS4000 support prior to upgrading to your DS4000 firmware. The 07.36.08.xx release is no longer supported. Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
DS4200	06.23.05.xx 06.60.02.xx 06.60.08.xx 06.60.17.xx 06.60.22.xx ~~07.10.23.xx~~ 07.15.07.xx 07.15.10.xx 07.36.08.xx 07.36.12.xx 07.36.14.xx* 07.36.17.xx 07.50.13.xx 07.60.28.xx			Yes Minimum Firmware Level 07.60.28.xx
DS4400	06.12.56.xx			No

DS4300	06.12.56.xx 06.23.05.xx 06.60.02.xx 06.60.08.xx 06.60.17.xx 06.60.22.xx				Concurrent download of ESM firmware with I/O is supported with controller firmware 06.23.05.00 or later .

DS4300 Turbo	06.12.56.xx 06.23.05.xx 06.60.02.xx 06.60.08.xx 06.60.17.xx 06.60.22.xx
DS4500	06.12.56.xx 06.23.05.xx 06.60.02.xx 06.60.08.xx 06.60.17.xx 06.60.22.xx
DS4700	06.23.05.xx 06.60.02.xx 06.60.08.xx 06.60.17.xx 06.60.22.xx ~~07.10.23.xx~~ 07.15.07.xx 07.15.10.xx 07.36.08.xx 07.36.12.xx 07.36.14.xx* 07.36.17.xx 07.50.13.xx 07.60.28.xx 07.60.40.xx			Yes Minimum Firmware Level 07.60.28.xx
DS4800	06.23.05.xx 06.60.02.xx 06.60.08.xx 06.60.17.xx 06.60.22.xx ~~07.10.23.xx~~ 07.15.07.xx 07.15.10.xx 07.36.08.xx 07.36.12.xx 07.36.14.xx* 07.36.17.xx 07.50.13.xx 07.60.28.xx 07.60.40.xx					Round Robin

FAStT ( The IBM TotalStorage FAStT Family has been renamed the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Series )

Controller Model	Firmware Release	Storage Manager	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
FAStT200	05.30.25.xx	Download the recommended version of the Storage Manager from the DS4000 website	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Concurrent download of ESM firmware with I/O is not supported DS4000 copy services (FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, MetroMirror) can be used with Storwize V7000. Please refer the DS4000 website for the latest recommended DS4000 client software and RDAC levels Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
FAStT500	05.30.25.xx		Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	No	Mdisk Group Balancing

IBM DS5000

Controller Model	Firmware Release	Storage Manager	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	ESM Support	Multipathing	Notes
DS5020	07.60.xx.xx 07.70.xx.xx 07.77.xx.xx 07.83.18.xx	Download the recommended version of the Storage Manager from the DS5000 website	Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	Yes Minimum Firmware Level 07.60.13.xx	Please refer to DS5000 documentation with regard to ESM Download.	Round Robin	Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please refer the DS5000 website for the latest recommended DS5000 client software, RDAC levels, specific configuration guidelines, cabling requirements & restrictions when attaching EXP5000 and EXP810 DS5000 Support DS5000 copy services (FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, MetroMirror) can be used with Storwize V7000. DS5000 range maximum LUNs per partition is currently 256, limiting the number of LUNs from a single DS5000 to a Storwize V7000 cluster to 256. RAID-5 Array size must be 4+1 or larger RAID-6 Array size must be 4+1+1 or larger 07.36.12.xx is no longer available, please see the following flash . Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems**
DS5100	07.30.21.xx ** 07.36.12.xx 07.36.14.xx 07.36.17.xx 07.50.12.xx 07.50.13.xx 07.60.xx.xx 07.70.xx.xx 07.77.xx.xx 07.83.18.xx
DS5300

IBM DS6000

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
DS6800	For further support, including interoperability details & latest supported code levels, visit the DS6800 support pages	Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	DS6000 copy services (FlashCopy, MetroMirror) can be used with Storwize V7000. Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Please refer to the DS6000 support site for further information on DS6000

IBM DS8000

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
DS8100	For further support, including interoperability details & latest supported code levels, visit the 8100 support pages DS8000 Code Bundle Information	Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	No	Round Robin	DS8000 copy services (FlashCopy, MetroMirror) can be used with Storwize V7000 . DS8700 Thin provisioning is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Please refer to the DS8000 support site for further information on DS8000
DS8300	For further support, including interoperability details & latest supported code levels, visit the 8300 support pages DS8000 Code Bundle Information		No
DS8700	For further support, including interoperability details & latest supported code levels, visit the 8700 support pages DS8700 Code Bundle Information		Yes
DS8800	For further support, including interoperability details & latest supported code levels, DS8800 Code Bundle Information		Yes

IBM ESS

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
2105-E10	minimum EC 2.3.3.134 minimum EC 2.3.3.178	Yes (Also supports Extended Quorum )	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
2105-E20
2105-F10
2105-F20
2105-800	minimum EC 2.4.4.70 minimum EC 2.4.4.112
2105-750		Yes

IBM DCS3700

Controller Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Host Attachment	Multipathing	Notes
DCS3700	07.77.18	Yes	Yes	Fibre Channel	Mdisk Group Balancing

XIV

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
XIV Nextra	9.2.0g	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	XIV advanced functions ( Native copy services and Thin Provisioning ) are not supported with Storwize V7000 Do not attempt to create 512 LUNs The current maximum number of LUNS supported is 511
IBM XIV Storage System	10.0			Round Robin	XIV advanced functions ( Native copy services and Thin Provisioning ) are not supported with Storwize V7000 Do not attempt to create 512 LUNs with 10.0 fimware The current maximum number of LUNS supported is 511
IBM XIV Storage System	10.0.0a 10.0.1b 10.1.0a 10.2.0a 10.2.1 10.2.2 10.2.2a 10.2.4 10.2.4a 10.2.4b 10.2.4c 10.2.4e 11.0.0 11.0.0a 11.0.1 11.1 11.1.0b 11.1.1			Round Robin	XIV advanced functions ( Native copy services and Thin Provisioning ) are not supported with Storwize V7000 XIV Concurrent code upgrade is supported from XIV code levels 10.1.0a & 10.1.0b to XIV code level 10.2.0a and above. Please consult your XIV TA prior to performing any upgrades on XIV. Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Concurrent Upgrade from 10.2.2 to 10.2.2a is not supported Please refer to the XIV support site for further information on XIV

Model	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
MSA1000	7.0 ( Active/Active )		No	No	Controller Balancing	Your HP support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
MSA1500	7.0 ( Active/Active )				Controller Balancing
MSA2000	J200P39				Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Note the MSA P2000G2/G3 are not currently supported with Storwise V7000
Model	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
EVA 4000	XCS 6.2xx		Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your HP support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Refer to EVA product documentation for concurrent maintenance procedures Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
EVA 6000
EVA 8000
EVA 4100	XCS 6.2xx
EVA 6100
EVA 8100
EVA 4400	09.53.40.00 1000.x000 1100.1000
EVA 6400
EVA 8400
P6300	1000.x000 1100.1000			No		Advanced Function such as Thin provisioning is not currently supported
P6500	1000.x000 1100.1000			No
Model	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
XP48	01-19-99-00/04	HDS 9910	No	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your HP support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Ensure that you wait until each Volume is formatted before you present it to the IBM Storwize V7000. Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems XP24000 & 20000 advanced function such as thin provisioning are not supported
XP512	01-19-99-00/04	HDS 9960
XP128	21-14-34-00/00 21-14-46-00/00	HDS 9970V
XP1024	21-14-34-00/00 21-14-46-00/00	HDS 9980V
XP10000	50-09-06-00/00 50-09-72-00/00 50-09-85-00/00 50-09-90-00/00	HDS NSC55	Yes
XP12000		HDS USP
XP24000	60-02-48-00/12 60-03-05-00/00 60-03-06/00 60-03-27-00/00 60-04-04-00/10 60-04-13-00/00 60-04-01-00/02 60-06-10.xx 60-07-00.xx 60.08.04.xx	HDS USPv
XP20000		HDS USPv m
P9500	70-01-61/00 70-01-62/00 70-02-06/00	HDS VSP	Yes ( See Notes )	No		Quorum disk requires host mode 39 : Please contact your HDS support representative

HP 3PAR

Model	Firmware	Supports SAN Volume Controller Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
F200	2.3.1 (MU4 & MU5) 3.1.1	Yes	Yes	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit SAN Volume Controller Software Information Guide Errata for further information on restrictions and configuring 3Par Controllers Minimum SVC Version 6.2.0.4
F400
T400
T800
P10000	3.1.1

Hitachi Data Systems

HDS Thunder	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
9200	055L/F	SANrise 1200	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your HDS support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
9520V	065D/B 065F/D 065F/E
Thunder 9530V / 9570V	065D/B 065F/D 065F/E 065F/F
9580V	165D/B 165F/D 165F/E
9585V	165D/B 165F/D 165F/E
HDS Lightning	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
9910	01-19-99-00/04	HP XP48 StorEdge 9910	No	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your HDS support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
9960	01-19-99-00/04	HP XP512 StorEdge 9960
9970V	21-14-34-00/00 21-14-46-00/00	HP XP128 StorEdge 9970
9980V	21-14-34-00/00 21-14-46-00/00	HP XP1024 StorEdge 9980
Hitachi	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
NSC55	50-09-06-00/00 50-09-72-00/00 50-09-75-00/00 50-09-85-00/00 50-09-90-00/00		Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your HDS support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported An Storwize V7000 configuration must include at least one storage controller which supports Storwize V7000 quorum disks Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Ensure that you wait until each Volume is formatted before you present it to the Storwize V7000. USPv & USPv m advanced function such as thin provisioning are not supported
USP100
USP600
USP1100
USPv	60-03-06/00 60-04-01-00/02 60-06-10.xx 60-07-00.xx	XP24000
USPv m		XP20000
VSP	70-01-61/00 70-01-62/00 70-02-06/00	HP P9500	Yes ( See Notes )	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Quorum disk requires host mode 39 : Please contact your HDS support representative
AMS & WMS	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
AMS200 AMS500 AMS1000 WMS100	0770/G-M 0781/A-x 0782/B-x 0786/C	N/A	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your HDS support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. Although these operations are nondisruptive to Storwize V7000 firmware upgrades should be performed with low levels of host I/O or when host I/O has been quiesced Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported HDS Advanced Function such as Thin Provisioning are not supported with Storwize V7000 at this time Please set the host type for AMS2xxx to Windows . Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems


AMS2100 AMS2300 AMS2500	0860/c 0872/e 0885/a 0885/c 0885/d 0889b 0890h 0893 08a0 08B5

EMC

EMC Clariion	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
CX 200	02.19.200.5.xxx	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your EMC support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to IBM Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
CX 400	02.19.400.5.xxx
CX 600	02.19.600.5.xxx
CX 300	02.19.300.5.xxx 02.26.300.5.xxx
CX 500	02.19.500.5.xxx 02.26.500.5.xxx
CX 700	02.19.700.5.xxx 02.26.700.5.xxx
CX3-10	03.26.010.5.xxx
CX3-20	03.26.020.5.xxx
CX3-40	03.26.040.5.xxx
CX3-80	03.26.080.5.xxx
CX4-120	04.28.000.5.xxx 04.28.000.5.504 04.29.000.5.003 4.29.000.5.006 04.30.000.5.508				We recommend the customers who are running Raid 6 to upgrade to the latest supported firmware. Advanced Functions such as thin provisioning are not supported with IBM Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
CX4-240
CX4-480
CX4-960
VNX 5100	05.31.000.3.600 and Higher
VNX 5300
VNX 5500
VNX 5700
VNX 7500
FC4700	08.51.60				Your EMC support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. Concurrent hardware maintenance operations are non-disruptive to IBM Storwize V7000. This product requires I/O to be quiesced during firmware upgrade Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
EMC Symmetrix		Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
8000 Series (8130, 8230, 8430, 8530, 8730, 8830)	Enginuity 5568	Yes	No	Round Robin	If you have DMX attached to IBM Storwize V7000, please see the following flash: Invalid Configurations on EMC Symmetrix Your EMC support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to IBM Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Symmetrix copy services (SRDF etc.) can be used with IBM Storwize V7000. Refer to the following hint & tip for more information: Data Encryption functionality is not supported with Storwize V7000. Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
DMX & DMX-2 800/1000/2000/3000	Enginuity 5671
DMX-3	Enginuity 5772 Enginuity 5773
DMX-4	Enginuity 5772 Enginuity 5773
VMAX 10k 20k	5874 5875				Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems

Sun StorEdge

StorEdge	Firmware	AKA	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
9910	01-19-99-00/04	HDS 9910	No	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your Sun support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
9960	01-19-99-00/04	HDS 9960
9970	21-14-34-00/00 21-14-46-00/00	HDS 9970V
9980	21-14-34-00/00 21-14-46-00/00	HDS 9980V
9990	50-09-06-00/00
9990v	50-09-85-00/00 50-09-90-00/00	USPv

StorageTek

StorageTek D-Series

Model	Firmware	NVSRAM	SANTricity	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	AKA	Notes
D173	5.30.23.00	N2772-530855-006	8.30.G2.05	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing		Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
D178	5.39.01.00 5.40.19.00 6.10.15.00 6.12.10.00	N4884-530855-005 N4884-540855-005 N4884-610855-006 N4884-612855-003	8.30.G2.00 8.40.G2.08 9.10.G2.03 9.15.G2.01
D220	5.34.08.00	N2882-534855-003	8.34.G2.05
D240	5.40.19.00 6.10.15.00 6.12.10.00	N2882-540855-007 N288X-610855-006 N288X-612855-003	8.40.G2.08 9.10.G2.03 9.15.G2.01				AKA FlexLine 240
D280	5.30.23.00 5.40.19.00 6.10.15.00 6.12.10.00	N5884-530855-005 N5884-540855-005 N588X-610855-006 N588X-612855-003	8.30.G2.05 8.40.G2.08 9.10.G2.03 9.15.G2.01				AKA FlexLine 280
D380	6.15.12.00	N6091-614855-004	9.15.G2.01				AKA FlexLine 380

StorageTek FlexLine 200 Series

Model	Firmware	NVSRAM	SANTricity	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	AKA	Notes
FLX210	6.12.10.00	N282X-612855-003	9.12.G2.01	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing		Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
FLX240	6.12.10.00	N288X-612855-003					AKA D240
FLX280	6.12.10.00	N588X-612855-003					AKA D280
FLX380	6.15.12.00	N6091-614855-004	9.15.G2.01				AKA D380

StorageTek 6000 Series

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
6540	06.16.81.10 06.60.xx.xx ~~07.70.xx.xx~~	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your Sun support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to IBM Storwize V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
6130
6140
6180	06.60.xx.xx
6580	07.70.xx.xx
6780

IBM N Series Filer and NetApp FAS

IBM N Series	NetApp	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
N/A	920	DataONTAP 7.2.4	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Your IBM or NetApp support representative will perform hardware maintenance and firmware upgrade procedures. These operations are non-disruptive to Storwise V7000 Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Note: host type should be set to Linux Please refer to the N Series support site for further information on N Series
	940
	960
	980
N3300 2859-A20	FAS2020A	DataONTAP 7.2.4 DataONTAP 7.3 DataONTAP 7.3.1 DataONTAP 7.3.2 DataONTAP 7.3.5.1
N3600 2862-A20	FAS2050A
N3700 2863-A10 2863-A20	270



N5200 2864-A10 2864-A20	3020
N5300 2869-A10 2869-A20	3040
N5500 2865-A10 2865-A20	3050
N5600 2868-A10 2868-A20	3070
N6040 2858-A10 2858-A20	3140
N6060 2858-A12 2858-A22	3160
N6070 2858-A11 2858-A21	3170
N7600 2866-A10 2866-A20	6030
N7700 2866-A11 2866-A21	6040
N7800 2867-A10 2867-A20	6070
N7900 2867-A11 2867-A21	6080

Fujitsu Eternus

Type	Model	Firmware	Supports Storwize V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
3000	100	V20L86 V20L91	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit the Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Dynamic expansion of controller LUNs is not supported
	100D	V30L21 V30L27
	200	V20L86 V20L91
	400
	600
	300	V20L56 V10L61
	500
	700
	300B	V20L56 V20L61
	500B
	700B
4000	100	V30L21 V30L27
	300	V10L70 V11L33 V11L90
	500
	400	V20L70
	600
8000	900	V10L70 V11L33 V11L90
	1100
	2100
	1200	V20L70
	2200
DX400	410	V20L50 V20Lxx		Yes With Storwize V7000 6.2.0.4 and Higher
	440
DX8000	8100
	8400
	8700
DX	DX60	V10L50 V10Lxx
	DX80
	DX90
DX S2	DX60S2	V20L10 V20Lxx
	DX80S2	V10L11 V10Lxx
	DX90S2
	DX410S2
	DX440S2
DX8000 S2	DX8100S2	V10L20 V10Lxx
	DX8700S2

Bull

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwise V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
StoreWay FDA1500	436	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Minimum supported Storwize V7000 6.1 version 6.1.0.8 Host Type should be set to Linux Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
StoreWay FDA2500	436
StoreWay FDA2900	435
StoreWay Optima 1500	632
StoreWay Optima 2000	639
StoreWay Optima 3000	635
StoreWay Optima 1600	73A				Minimum supported Storwize V7000 version 6.3.0.1 Host Type should be set to Linux
StoreWay Optima 2600	739
StoreWay Optima 3600	739

NEC iStorage

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwise V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
S1500	436	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Minimum supported V7000 version 6.1.0.8 Host Type should be set to Linux Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
S2500
S2900	435
M100	73A				Minimum supported V7000version 6.3.0.1 Host Type should be set to Linux
M300	739
M500

Pillar Data

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwise V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
Axiom 300	1.6.6	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
Axiom 500	2.8.6
Axiom 600	03.03.07 04.02.00

Texas Memory Systems

Model	Firmware	Supports SAN Volume Controller Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
RamSan 440	Minimum 3.4.3	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
RamSan 500
RamSan 620
RamSan 630
RamSan 710	Minimum 5.5.1
RamSan 720
RamSan 810
RamSan 820

Xiotech

Model	Firmware	Supports SAN Volume Controller Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Notes
ISE1	1.2.C3.4 1.5.2 1.6.0 1.6.1 1.6.2 1.6.3	Yes	No	Please visit the SAN Volume Controller Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems
ISE1	1.7.x	Yes	No	1.7.x firmware is only supported on 6.2.0.4 and higher
ISE2 Hyper ISE	2.2.3 2.3.1	Yes	No	Supported on 6.3.0 and higher

Nexsan

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwise V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
SATABeast	NT66	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems

Compellent

Model	Firmware	Supports Storwise V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
SC030 SC040	5.2.3	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center for details on Configuring and Servicing external storage systems Compellent Advanced Functions are not supported with Storwize V7000
SC030 SC040	5.4.x 5.5.x 5.4.x and 5.5.x are only supported with Storwize V7000 version 6.2.0.3 and higher	Yes	No	Mdisk Group Balancing	Please Visit the Storwize V7000 Software Installation and Configuration Guide Errata for further information on Zoning and restrictions

Violin Memory

Type	Model	Firmware	Supports Storwise V7000 Quorum Disks	Support for MDisks >2TB	Multipathing	Notes
3100	3110 3120 3140	G5.0.2	Yes	Yes	Round Robin	Minimum supported V7000 version 6.3.0.1 V7000 LUNs should be set to 512 Block format All SVC ports should be entered in the following format wwn.xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
3200	3202 3205 3210 3220

Switches

IBM Storwize V7000 supports NPIV products in the SAN with the restriction that these products can only be used for host attachment. An example of an NPIV product is the Brocade Access Gateway module for the BladeCenter.
FCIP technology listed on the IBM SAN Support pages can be used in IBM Storwize V7000 configurations for the following uses:
1) iSCSI host attachment. Please refer to the iSCSI Host Attachment section for more information.
2) Links between two IBM Storwize V7000 clusters in a Metro Mirror or Global Mirror configuration. Please refer to the Configuration Guide for details

ISL Blades
All blades comprising of ISWL ports are supported in IBM Storwize V7000 configurations, provided that they are listed on the IBM SAN Support pages. This includes the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 4-port 10Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module and the Brocade 10Gbps Fibre Channel blade.

IBM BladeCenter Supported Configurations

Supported Switch models	Notes
BladeCenter Optical Pass-thru Module (P/N 02R9080) QLogic 20-port Fibre Channel Module (P/N 26R0881) QLogic 6Port Enterprise FC Module (P/N 26K6477) Brocade Enterprise Module (P/N 90P0165) Brocade 20-port 8Gb Module (P/N 44X1920) Brocade 10-port 8Gb Module (P/N 44X1921) QLogic 20-Port 4/8 Gb Module (P/N 88Y6406) Nortel 10Gb 10-Port Ethernet Module (P/N 46C7191) QLogic Virtual Fabric Extension Module (P/N 46M6172) 10Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module (P/N 46M6181) Brocade Enterprise 20port 8Gb SAN Switch Module (P/N 42C1828) Brocade Converged 10Gbe Switch Module (P/N 69Y1909)	For BladeCenter switch module, Passthrough module, switch vendor interconnectivity and supported firmware levels, please visit the IBM BladeCenter support website

Brocade

IBM Model	Firmware	Class	AKA	Notes
2005-B16	6.1.0c 6.1.0d 6.1.0e 6.1.0f 6.1.0g 6.1.0h 6.1.1a 6.1.1b 6.1.1c 6.1.2 6.1.2b 6.1.2c 6.2.2b	Fabric Switch	SAN16B-2 Silkworm 200E EMC DS-16B2
2109-M48	6.1.1c 6.1.2 6.1.2b 6.1.2c 6.2.2b 6.2.2d 6.2.2e 6.3.1a 6.3.1b 6.3.2 6.3.2b 6.4.0a 6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.1a 6.4.1b 6.4.2a 7.0.0a 7.0.0b 7.0.0c	Director	SAN256B Silkworm 48000
2005-H08 / H16	5.3.0d 5.3.1a 5.3.1b 5.3.2 5.3.2b 5.3.2c	Fabric Switch	SAN Switch H08 / 16 Silkworm 3250 / 3850
2005-B32	6.1.1c 6.1.2 6.1.2b 6.1.2c 6.2.2b 6.2.2d 6.2.2e 6.3.1a 6.3.1b 6.3.2 6.3.2b 6.4.0a 6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.1a 6.4.1b 6.4.2a 6.4.3	Fabric Switch	SAN32B-2 Silkworm 4100
2005-B64		Fabric Switch	SAN64B-2 Silkworm 4900
2109-F32	5.3.0d 5.3.1a 5.3.1b 5.3.2 5.3.2b 5.3.2c	Fabric Switch	SAN Switch F32 Silkworm 3900 EMC DS-32B2
2109-M14	5.3.0d 5.3.1a 5.3.1b 5.3.2 5.3.2b 5.3.2c	Director	SAN Switch M14 Silkworm 24000
2109-M12	5.0.5e 5.0.5f	Director	SAN Switch M12 Silkworm 12000
2005-B5K	6.1.1c 6.1.2 6.1.2b 6.1.2c 6.2.2b 6.2.2d 6.2.2e 6.3.1a 6.3.1b 6.3.2 6.3.2b 6.4.0a 6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.1a 6.4.1b 6.4.2a 7.0.0a 7.0.0b 7.0.0c	Fabric Switch	Silkworm 5000 SAN32B-3 20055KB
2499-384 ( SAN 768B ) 2499-192 ( SAN 384B )	6.1.1c 6.1.2 6.1.2b 6.1.2c 6.2.2b 6.2.2d 6.2.2e 6.3.1a 6.3.1b 6.3.2 6.3.2b 6.4.0a 6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.1a 6.4.1b 6.4.2a 6.4.3 7.0.0a 7.0.0b 7.0.0c 7.0.1b	Director	Brocade DCX Brocade DCX-4s	Please see the following Technote for the correct Port Fillword setting when connecting 8Gbps Brocade switches to 8Gbps IBM Storwize V7000
2498-B24		Director	Brocade 300
2498-B40		Fabric Switch	Brocade 5100
2498-B80		Fabric Switch	Brocade 5300
B Class 16Gbps
IBM Model	Firmware	Class	AKA	Notes
2 499- 384 ( SAN 768B-2 )	7.0.1b	Director	Brocade DCX 8510
2499-192 ( SAN 384B-2 )		Director	Brocade DCX 8510
2498-F48 ( SAN48-B5 )		Fabric Switch	Brocade 6510
Brocade Converged Network Switches
IBM	Firmware	Class	AKA	Notes
VDX 6730	NOS 2.1.1b	CNS ( Combined Network Switch )	Brocade VDX 6730	Supported behind Brocade director class switches with Brocade CNA ( Combined Network Adapters ) Please see the OS tables above for support OS/CNA combinations
B32 3758	6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.1b 6.4.2a 6.4.3 7.0.0c 7.0.1b	CNS ( Combined Network Switch )	Brocade 8000
Encryption
SAN32B-E4	7.0.0c 7.0.1b	Encryption	Brocade BES	Host Side Encryption only : Encryption from Storwize V7000 to Storage is not supported

Cisco MDS

Model	Firmware	Class	AKA	Notes
9500	3.1(3a) 3.2(2c) 3.2(3a) 3.3(1a) 3.3(1c) 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.1(c) 4.1.3(a) 4.2.1b 4.2.3	Director
9506	3.1(3a) 3.2(2c) 3.2(3a) 3.3(1a) 3.3(1c) 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.1(c) 4.1.3(a) 4.2.1b 4.2.3 4.2.5 4.2.7a 5.0(1a) 5.0(4b) 5.2.1		2062-D04
9509			2062-D07
9513		Fabric Switch	2062-E11 2054-E11
9222i
9124	3.1(3a) 3.2(2c) 3.2(3a) 3.3(1a) 3.3(1c) 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.1(c) 4.1.3(a) 4.2.1b 4.2.3 4.2.5 4.2.7a 5.0(1a) 5.0(4b)		2053-424
9134
9134
9216 i
9148	5.0(1a) 5.0(4b) 5.2.1
9216 9216 A	3.1(3a) 3.2(2c) 3.2(3a) 3.3(1a) 3.3(1c) 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.1(c) 4.1.3(a) 4.2.1b 4.2.3		2062-D1A / D1H
9140			2061-040
9100
9120			2061-020
9200
9020	2.1(2)		2061-420

Cisco Nexus

Model	Firmware	Class	AKA	Notes
5010	4.1(3)N1(1) 4.1(3)N2(1a) 4.2(1)N2(1) 5.0(3)N2(1) 5.2.2d 5.2.6	CNS ( Combined Network Switch )		Supported behind core MDS switches with Qlogic CNA ( Combined Network Adapters ) Please see the OS tables above for support OS/CNA combinations
5020
4001	4.1(2)E1(1b) 4.1(2)e1(1d) 5.2.2d 5.2.6
5548	5.0(3)N2(1) 5.2.1 5.2.2d 5.2.6
5596	5.0(3)N2(1) 5.2.1 5.2.2d 5.2.6

McDATA

IBM Name for IBM Badged Switch	McDATA Model	Firmware	Class	AKA			Notes
IBM Name for IBM Badged Switch	McDATA Model	Firmware	Class	IBM# for IBM Badged Switch	IBM# for McDATA Badged Switch	Other	Notes
	ES-3016	EOSc 09.09.00 09.09.02 09.09.03 09.09.05 09.09.06	Sphereon Fabric Switch		2031-016
	ES-3032		Sphereon Fabric Switch		2031-032	EMC DS-32M2
	ES-3216		Sphereon Fabric Switch		2031-216
IBM SAN32M-1	ES-3232		Sphereon Fabric Switch	2027-232	2031-232
IBM SAN24M-1	ES-4500		Sphereon Fabric Switch	2026-224	2031-224
IBM SAN16M-2	ES-4400		Sphereon Fabric Switch	2026-416
IBM SAN32M-2	ES-4700		Sphereon Fabric Switch	2026-432
	ED-6064		Intrepid Director		2032-064	EMC ED-64M
IBM SAN140M-1	ED-6140		Intrepid Director	2027-140	2032-140	EMC ED-140M	UPM and QPM Supported
IBM SAN256M	ED-10000	EOSn 09.09.00 09.09.02 09.09.03 09.09.05 09.09.06 09.09.07	Intrepid Director	2027-256			2GB & 4GB LIMs

Qlogic

Model	Firmware	Class	AKA	Notes
5600	V6.8.0.03	Fabric Switch		Max 64 hosts per I/O Group 128 host N port logins per IO group (64 per node port)
5602
9000	V6.6.0.15 V6.8.0.03

Other Hardware & Software

Technologies for extending the distance between two IBM Storwize V7000 clusters can be broadly divided into the following two categories.

Inter Cluster Fibre Channel Extenders

Fibre channel extenders simply extend a fibre channel link by transmitting fibre channel packets across long links without changing the contents of those packets. IBM has tested a number of such fibre channel extender technologies with IBM Storwize V7000 and will support fibre channel extenders of all types provided that they are planned, installed and operated as described in the Configuration Guide document.

Inter Cluster SAN Routers

SAN routers extend the scope of a SAN by providing "virtual nPorts" on two or more SANs. The router arranges that traffic at one virtual nPort is propagated to the other virtual nPort but the two fibre channel fabrics are independent of one another. Thus nPorts on each of the fabrics cannot directly log into each other. There are distance restrictions imposed due to latency. The amount of latency which can be tolerated depends on the type of copy services being used (Metro Mirror or Global Mirror). Details of the maximum latencies supported can be found in the Software Installation and Configuration Guide:

Due to the more complex interactions involved, IBM explicitly tests products of this class for interoperability with IBM Storwize V7000.

The following SAN Routers are supported for use with IBM Storwize V7000 when planned, installed and operated as described in the Configuration Guide document.

Inter Cluster SAN Routers		Firmware	AKA	Notes
Inter Cluster SAN Routers		Firmware	IBM# for IBM Badged Switch	Notes
SAN04M-R SAN Router	McDATA Eclipse 1620 SAN Router	EOSi 4.07.00 5.01.00	2027-R04	The Advanced Functions Router pairs for HA Configurations & iFCP Fast Failover in EOSi 5.01.00 are not supported at this time
SAN16M-R SAN Router	McDATA Eclipse 2640 SAN Router	EOSi 4.07.00 5.01.00	2027-R16
SAN16B-R SAN Router	Brocade AP7420 SAN Router	7.4.1d	2109-A16
SAN18B-R	Silkworm 7500	6.3.1b 6.3.2a 6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.2a	2005-R18
SAN04B-R	Silkworm 7500E	6.3.1b 6.3.2a 6.4.0a 6.4.2a	2005-R04
SAN06B-R	Silkworm 7800	6.3.1a 6.3.1b 6.4.2a	2498-R06
M48 FC3450 Blade	Silkworm 48000 director blade FR4-18i	6.3.1b 6.3.2a 6.4.0a 6.4.0b 6.4.0c 6.4.1b 6.4.2a	N/A
DCX FC3850	DCX FR4-18i Router Blade	6.4.1b 6.4.2a
DCX FC3880	DCX FX8-24 Router Blade	6.4.1b 6.4.2a
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Inter VSAN Routing		Please see the Cisco Switch table for supported firmware versions
QLogic 6142		2.4.4.3

VSS

Operating System	VSS	Note
Windows 2003	IBM Storwize V7000 Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)	Please use the following link for information on Microsoft VSS Version 4.3
Windows 2008

Management GUI

To access the Management GUI, you must ensure that your web browser is supported and has the appropriate settings
enabled

Supported Browsers	Support links
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or higher	For information on configuring you browser to work with the IBM Storwize V7000 management GUI please visit the IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center Configuring -> Checking your web browser settings for the management GUI
Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0

GPFS / RVSD Versions

AIX Level	GPFS	RVSD	RVSD/PSSP	Note
5.2	2.3 + 3.1 + 3.2	4.1	3.5	Persistent Reservations are not supported
5.3	2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 & 3.4	4.1	N/A
6.1	3.2, 3.3 & 3.4

RHEL Level	GPFS	Note
5.1	3.2	Persistent Reservations are not supported
5.2	3.2	Persistent Reservations are not supported

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC)

TPC Level	Supported levels
TPC 4.2.x	Refer to the TPC 4.2.x Supported Storage Products Matrix
TPC 5.1.x	Refer to the TPC 5.1.x Supported Storage Products Matrix

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCM)

Flash Copy Management Level	Required IBM Storwize V7000 Levels	FlashCopy Manager Information	Note
2.2	Storwize V7000 Version 6.1	Hardware and Software Requirements : Version 2.2 IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
2.2.1	Storwize V7000 Versions 6.1 to 6.2	Hardware and Software Requirements : Version 2.2.1 IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager
3.1	Storwize V7000 Versions 6.1 to 6.3	Hardware and Software Requirements : Version 3.1 IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager	This combination does not support dynamic host mapping with SVC 6.3.x
3.1.0.1	Storwize V7000 Versions 6.1 to 6.3	Hardware and Software Requirements : Version 3.1.0.1 IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager	This combination supports dynamic host mapping with SVC 6.3.x

Oracle

*Oracle Server Release	Minimum Operating System	Minimum IBM Storwize V7000 Level	Clustering Support	ASM	Note
10g	AIX 5.1 AIX 5.2 AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 RHEL4 RHEL5 SLES9 SLES10 HPUX11iV2 Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Solaris 9 Solaris10	V4.1.0	Yes	Yes	Please visit the 6.3 IBM Storwize V7000 restrictions document for further information Please visit this Flash if using Oracle ASM with HPUX




11gR1 64bit 11gR2 64bit	AIX 5.1 AIX 5.2 AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 RHEL4 RHEL5 SLES9 SLES10 HPUX11iV2 Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Solaris 9 Solaris10

*Cross reference information*
Segment	Product	Component	Platform	Version	Edition
Disk Storage Systems	IBM Storwize V7000 Unified (2073)	Not Applicable	Platform Independent	1.3

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IBM Storwize V7000 (2076)

6.3

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6.3

Operating system(s):
Platform Independent

Reference #:
S1003908

Modified date:
2012-03-02

V6.3 Supported Hardware List, Device Driver, Firmware and Recommended Software Levels for IBM Storwize V7000

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