Martha -

I don't think the DS4xxx class systems are specifically qualified for Linux
on Z - they are not in the device compatibility matrix as far as I can tell.


But - if you hide them behind a SVC then they are supported, indirectly.
Linux on Z supports SVC and by extension any disk that SVC itself supports.
SVC in turn supports DS4xxx and lots of other stuff, not just IBM branded
disk. Anything you plug into SVC, and is supported by SVC, is by extension
supported by Linux on Z.

SVC is the San Volume Controller - it's basically an X series box that you
dedicate all the SAN volumes to, then it aggregates them together and hands
space back out to host systems. Like Minidisk - or more like SFS, really,
but for the SAN.



--
Jay Brenneman

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