7.1 Host attachment overview7.2 IBM FlashSystem V9000 setup7.2.1 Fibre Channel and SAN setup overview7.2.2 Fibre Channel SAN attachment7.2.3 Fibre Channel direct attachment7.3 iSCSI7.3.1 Initiators and targets7.3.2 iSCSI nodes7.3.3 iSCSI qualified name7.3.4 iSCSI set up of IBM FlashSystem V9000 and host server7.3.5 Volume discovery7.3.6 Authentication7.3.7 Target failover7.3.8 Host failover7.4 File alignment for the best RAID performance7.5 AIX: Specific information7.5.1 Optimal logical unit number configurations for AIX7.5.2 Configuring the AIX host7.5.3 Configuring fast fail and dynamic tracking7.5.4 Subsystem Device Driver Path Control Module (SDDPCM)7.5.5 Configuring the assigned volume by using SDDPCM7.5.6 Using SDDPCM7.5.7 Creating and preparing volumes for use with AIX and SDDPCM7.5.8 Expanding an AIX volume7.5.9 Running IBM FlashSystem V9000 commands from AIX host system7.6 IBM i: Specific information7.6.1 Connection of IBM FlashSystem V9000 to IBM i7.6.2 Block translation7.6.3 IBM i LUNs and capacity7.6.4 Data layout7.6.5 Thin provisioning and IBM Real-time Compression7.6.6 Multipath7.6.7 Fibre Channel adapters in IBM i partition7.6.8 Zoning SAN switches7.6.9 Boot from SAN7.6.10 IBM i mirroring7.6.11 Migration7.7 Windows: Specific information7.7.1 Configuring Windows Server 2008 and 2012 hosts7.7.2 Configuring Windows7.7.3 Hardware lists, device driver, HBAs, and firmware levels7.7.4 Installing and configuring the host adapter7.7.5 Changing the disk timeout on Windows Server7.7.6 Installing the SDDDSM multipath driver on Windows7.7.7 Attaching IBM FlashSystem V9000 volumes to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R27.7.8 Extending a volume7.7.9 Removing a disk from Windows7.7.10 Using IBM FlashSystem V9000 CLI from a Windows host7.7.11 Microsoft 2012 and Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)7.7.12 Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy (VSS)7.8 Linux: Specific information7.8.1 Configuring the Linux host7.8.2 Supported Linux distributions7.8.3 Multipathing in Linux7.9 VMware: Configuration information7.9.1 Configuring VMware hosts7.9.2 Operating system versions and maintenance levels7.9.3 HBAs for hosts that are running VMware7.9.4 VMware storage and zoning guidance7.9.5 Multipathing in ESXi7.9.6 Attaching VMware to volumes7.9.7 Volume naming in VMware7.9.8 Extending a VMFS volume7.9.9 Removing a data store from an ESXi host7.10 Oracle (Sun) Solaris: Configuration information7.10.1 MPxIO dynamic pathing7.11 Hewlett-Packard UNIX: Configuration information7.11.1 Operating system versions and maintenance levels7.11.2 Supported multipath solutions7.11.3 Clustered-system support7.11.4 Support for HP-UX with greater than eight LUNs7.12 Using NPIV functionality7.12.1 How NPIV works7.13 Using SDDDSM, SDDPCM, and SDD web interface7.14 More information