You must configure the AIX operating
system before you can use IBM®System p hosts with the Lenovo Storage V7000 system.
Before you configure
the AIX host
operating systems, the following tasks must be completed:
- The Lenovo service representative must
have installed the Lenovo Storage V7000 system.
- You must have
installed the appropriate host bus adapters.
After
the prerequisite tasks are complete, use the following
general steps to configure your AIX host
system.
- Zone the host system to the Lenovo Storage V7000 on
the Fibre Channel SAN.
- Install
the appropriate multipathing driver for your host
system to enable the management of multiple paths to Lenovo Storage V7000volumes.
Note: The subsystem device driver (SDD) and
the subsystem device driver path control module (SDDPCM) for the AIX operating system support System p AIX 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 can be four single-port adapters or two dual-port
adapters or a combination, as long as the maximum number of ports
that are attached to the Lenovo Storage V7000 system does not exceed four.
- Create the host system on the Lenovo Storage V7000 system, using the worldwide port
names (WWPNs). Map the volume to the host as
required.
- Create volumes/disks on your host
using instructions in
your host system publications.