On Thursday, 12/06/2007 at 10:38 EST, Martha McConaghy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are currently looking to add some disk storage to our SAN and I'm > anticipating connecting our z9 to it at some point to support Linux guests > on z/VM. We are looking at buying at least one, perhaps two DS4800's. > However, there doesn't seem to be any info for supporting Linux on zSeries > on them. They have "host kits" available for Linux on Power and Linux > on Intel, but not zSeries. > > Does anyone have any experience with the DS4000 series and Linux on z? > If you have your z on the SAN, what types of devices are you using? > > Any info would be helpful. Thanks and happy holidays to everyone!
DS4000 is not supported for System z attachment. You can, however, place it (and almost any other kind of storage) behind SAN Volume Controller. (Because SVC *is* a supported attachment for System z.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
