HP EVA 6000 and IBM iSeries Model 825 disk subsystem compatibility

[dvdm]

Hello to everyone,

I am considering attaching my iSeries server, an 825 model, to our current HP EVA 6000. Currently we are doing archiving to optical platters which are attached to the iSeries, I want to archive to and migrate to magnetic media and our HP EVA SAN has more than enough capacity to cater for my requirements, but technically I'm not sure on how this is going to be achieved.

Is there anyone out there that has considered this or has successfully attached an EVA to an iSeries server?

[Patrick Terlisten]

Hello,

iSeries is not a supported system for an EVA. AFAIK only the XP is supported for iSeries connectivity.

Best regards,
Patrick

[Torsten.]

If I understand the question right, you ask if you can connect your server to the EVA, right?
This always depends on the OS in use, have a look:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12745_na/12745_na.HTML

Grep for "Multi-Vendor Platform"

Quote from there:
"...
EVA4100/EVA6100/EVA8100 provide support for industry-leading Operating System platforms including: HP-UX, HP OpenVMS, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Professional, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise (32/64-bit) and Extended (32/64-bit), /DataCenter (64-bit), Sun Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare ,VMware and Apple Mac OS X.
..."