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Table 10 Supported platforms: IPv4 vs. IPv6 (continued)

RAID Manager / IPv6

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IPv6

IPv4

AV: Available for communicating with different platforms.

N/A: Not Applicable (Windows LH does not support IPv4 mapped IPv6).

Minimum platform versions for RAID Manager/IPv6 support:

HP-UX: HP-UX 11.23 (PA/IA) or later

Solaris: Solaris 8/Sparc or later, Solaris 10/x86/64 or later

AIX: AIX 5.1 or later

Windows: Windows 2008(LH), Windows 2003 + IPv6 Install

Linux: Linux Kernel 2.4 (RH8.0) or later

Tru64: Tru64 v5.1A or later. Note that v5.1A does not support the getaddrinfo() function, so this must be specified
by IP address directly.

OpenVMS: OpenVMS 8.3 or later

Requirements and restrictions for z/Linux

In the following example, z/Linux defines the Open Volumes that are connected to FCP as /dev/sd*.
Also, the mainframe volumes (3390-xx) that are connected to FICON are defined as /dev/dasd*.

Figure 1 Example of a RAID Manager configuration on z/Linux

The restrictions for using RAID Manager with z/Linux are:

Command device. RAID Manager uses a SCSI Path-through driver to access the command
device. As such, the command device must be connected through FCP adaptors.

Open Volumes via FCP. You can control the Business Copy and Continuous Access Synchronous
pair operations without any restrictions.

Mainframe (3390-9A) Volumes via FICON. You cannot control the volumes (3390-9A) that
are directly connected to FICON for Business Copy pair operations. Also, mainframe volumes
must be mapped to a CHF port to address target volumes using a command device, as shown
in

Figure 1 (page 13)

. The mainframe volume does not have to be connected to an FCP

adaptor.

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