You must configure the AIX operating system before
you can use the IBM Power Systems hosts with Lenovo Storage V series systems.
Before you configure the AIX host operating systems, the following
tasks must be completed:
- The system must be installed.
- The appropriate host bus adapters must be installed.
After the prerequisite tasks are complete, use the following
general steps to configure your AIX host system.
- Zone the host to the system nodes on the Fibre
Channel SAN.
- Install the appropriate multipathing driver for your host
to enable the management of multiple paths to the system volumes.
Note: The subsystem device
driver (SDD) and the subsystem device driver path control module (SDDPCM) for
the AIX operating system support System pAIX host systems in a clustered-system environment. To have failover protection on
an open system, these multipath drivers require a minimum
of two Fibre Channel adapters. The maximum number
of Fibre Channel ports that are supported in a
single host (or logical partition) is four. This maximum number
can be four single-port adapters or two dual-port adapters or a combination.
The maximum number of ports that are attached to the system cannot
exceed four.
- On the system, create the host by using
the worldwide port names (WWPNs). Map the volume to the host.
- Create volumes and disks on your host by using instructions
in your host system publications.