Introducing and Implementing IBM FlashSystem V9000

Host configuration

In this chapter, we describe the host configuration procedures that attach supported hosts to IBM FlashSystem V9000.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•Host attachment overview

•IBM FlashSystem V9000 setup

•iSCSI

•File alignment for the best RAID performance

•AIX: Specific information

•Windows: Specific information

•Linux (on x86/x86_64): Specific information

•VMware: Configuration information

•Oracle (Sun) Solaris hosts

•Hewlett-Packard UNIX: Configuration information

•Using SDDDSM, SDDPCM, and SDD web interface