IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC)

Configuration Name Selected on Search Page

Storage Family: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller YES
Storage Model: SVC Host Attachment YES
Storage Version: SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 8.4.0.x YES
Connection Protocol: Fibre Channel YES
Host Platform: x86 & x86_64 YES
Server Model: ALL x86 & x86_64 Compatible Servers
Adapter (HBA, CNA, etc): Brocade 815 YES
SAN or Networking: IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) YES

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Table of contents:

Result Operating System

1. Microsoft Windows Server 2012
2. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
3. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
4. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
5. Oracle Solaris 10

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Result Operating System

1 Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Interoperability Search Details

Configuration Name Device Driver/Firmware/Version Notes

Storage Version: SVC Host Attachment SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 8.4.0.x

Server Model: ALL x86 & x86_64 Compatible Servers

Operating System, Kernel: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 1. SCVMM is supported.

2. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.

Adapter (HBA, CNA, etc): Brocade 815 1. Please visit the Host Attachment section of the IBM Knowledge Center for details
on Configuring Hyper-V at https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/
2. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.
3. Supported HBA driver and firmware levels are:
Levels available via the HBA/Operating System vendors web pages
- The drivers provided by the operating system (in-distro)
- The InterOP team do recommend that the latest driver and firmware are used
4. Using MPIO

SAN or Networking: IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) For Spectrum Virtualize, FOS 6.x is NO longer supported. A minimum Level of FOS
7.4.2c is required.
Please view the following FOX 7.x and 8.x webpages:

IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 7.x Release Notes

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1003855
OR
IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 8.x Release Notes
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 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1009577

See the Flash(Alert) published at URL:

IBM SAN b-type Security Certificate Expiration
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012047

Supported Features: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center TPC for replication; please visit : http://www-
(TPC) For Replication see note 03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/center/replication/index.html

IBM SAN Boot Supported

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

(TPC) For Disk 5.2.6 - *EOL

Oracle Server 12c

Supported Clustering and Multipathing Software

Clustering software Notes Multipathing software Notes

<none> <none>

Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering

<none> <none>

Symantec Veritas Cluster Server 6.1 Symantec Veritas Volume Manager with DMP 6.1

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Result Operating System

2 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Interoperability Search Details

Configuration Name Device Driver/Firmware/Version Notes

Storage Version: SVC Host Attachment SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 8.4.0.x

Server Model: ALL x86 & x86_64 Compatible Servers

Operating System, Kernel: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 1. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.
2. SCVMM is supported.

Adapter (HBA, CNA, etc): Brocade 815 1. Using MPIO

2. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.
3. Please visit the Host Attachment section of the IBM Knowledge Center for details
on Configuring Hyper-V at https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/
4. Supported HBA driver and firmware levels are:
Levels available via the HBA/Operating System vendors web pages
- The drivers provided by the operating system (in-distro)
- The InterOP team do recommend that the latest driver and firmware are used

SAN or Networking: IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) For Spectrum Virtualize, FOS 6.x is NO longer supported. A minimum Level of FOS
7.4.2c is required.
Please view the following FOX 7.x and 8.x webpages:

IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 7.x Release Notes

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1003855
OR
IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 8.x Release Notes
IBM_Storage_Interoperability_Data_2022-02-09_17-33-34.pdf IBM SSIC: Storage Family: 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller', Storage Model: 'SVC Host Attachment', Storage Version: ' ... Go to the first page. Page 5 of 12
 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1009577

See the Flash(Alert) published at URL:

IBM SAN b-type Security Certificate Expiration
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012047

Supported Features: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center TPC for replication; please visit : http://www-
(TPC) For Replication see note 03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/center/replication/index.html

IBM SAN Boot Supported

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

(TPC) For Disk 5.2.6 - *EOL

Oracle Server 12c

Supported Clustering and Multipathing Software

Clustering software Notes Multipathing software Notes

<none> <none>

Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering

<none> <none>

Symantec Veritas Cluster Server 6.1 Symantec Veritas Volume Manager with DMP 6.1

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Result Operating System

3 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Interoperability Search Details

Configuration Name Device Driver/Firmware/Version Notes

Storage Version: SVC Host Attachment SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 8.4.0.x

Server Model: ALL x86 & x86_64 Compatible Servers

Operating System, Kernel: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 1. SCVMM is supported.

2. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.

Adapter (HBA, CNA, etc): Brocade 815 1. Using MPIO

2. Please visit the Host Attachment section of the IBM Knowledge Center for details
on Configuring Hyper-V at https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/
3. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.
4. Supported HBA driver and firmware levels are:
Levels available via the HBA/Operating System vendors web pages
- The drivers provided by the operating system (in-distro)
- The InterOP team do recommend that the latest driver and firmware are used

SAN or Networking: IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) For Spectrum Virtualize, FOS 6.x is NO longer supported. A minimum Level of FOS
7.4.2c is required.
Please view the following FOX 7.x and 8.x webpages:

IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 7.x Release Notes

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1003855
OR
IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 8.x Release Notes
IBM_Storage_Interoperability_Data_2022-02-09_17-33-34.pdf IBM SSIC: Storage Family: 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller', Storage Model: 'SVC Host Attachment', Storage Version: ' ... Go to the first page. Page 7 of 12
 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1009577

See the Flash(Alert) published at URL:

IBM SAN b-type Security Certificate Expiration
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012047

Supported Features: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center TPC for replication; please visit : http://www-
(TPC) For Replication see note 03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/center/replication/index.html

IBM SAN Boot Supported

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

(TPC) For Disk 5.2.6 - *EOL

Oracle Server 12c

Supported Clustering and Multipathing Software

Clustering software Notes Multipathing software Notes

<none> <none>

Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering

<none> <none>

Symantec Veritas Cluster Server 6.1 Symantec Veritas Volume Manager with DMP 6.1

IBM_Storage_Interoperability_Data_2022-02-09_17-33-34.pdf IBM SSIC: Storage Family: 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller', Storage Model: 'SVC Host Attachment', Storage Version: ' ... Go to the first page. Page 8 of 12
Result Operating System

4 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Interoperability Search Details

Configuration Name Device Driver/Firmware/Version Notes

Storage Version: SVC Host Attachment SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 8.4.0.x

Server Model: ALL x86 & x86_64 Compatible Servers

Operating System, Kernel: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V 1. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.
2. SCVMM is supported.

Adapter (HBA, CNA, etc): Brocade 815 1. Hyper-V on x64 based systems is supported with the following guest OS: Windows
2008 32bit, Windows 2008 64bit, Windows 2012 32bit, Windows 2012 64bit,
SLES11.
2. Please visit the Host Attachment section of the IBM Knowledge Center for details
on Configuring Hyper-V at https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/
3. Supported HBA driver and firmware levels are:
Levels available via the HBA/Operating System vendors web pages
- The drivers provided by the operating system (in-distro)
- The InterOP team do recommend that the latest driver and firmware are used
4. Using MPIO

SAN or Networking: IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) For Spectrum Virtualize, FOS 6.x is NO longer supported. A minimum Level of FOS
7.4.2c is required.
Please view the following FOX 7.x and 8.x webpages:

IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 7.x Release Notes

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1003855
OR
IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 8.x Release Notes
IBM_Storage_Interoperability_Data_2022-02-09_17-33-34.pdf IBM SSIC: Storage Family: 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller', Storage Model: 'SVC Host Attachment', Storage Version: ' ... Go to the first page. Page 9 of 12
 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1009577

See the Flash(Alert) published at URL:

IBM SAN b-type Security Certificate Expiration
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012047

Supported Features: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center TPC for replication; please visit : http://www-
(TPC) For Replication see note 03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/center/replication/index.html

IBM SAN Boot Supported

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

(TPC) For Disk 5.2.6 - *EOL

Oracle Server 12c

Supported Clustering and Multipathing Software

Clustering software Notes Multipathing software Notes

<none> <none>

Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering

<none> <none>

Symantec Veritas Cluster Server 6.1 Symantec Veritas Volume Manager with DMP 6.1

IBM_Storage_Interoperability_Data_2022-02-09_17-33-34.pdf IBM SSIC: Storage Family: 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller', Storage Model: 'SVC Host Attachment', Storage Version: ' ... Go to the first page. Page 10 of 12
Result Operating System

5 Oracle Solaris 10

Interoperability Search Details

Configuration Name Device Driver/Firmware/Version Notes

Storage Version: SVC Host Attachment SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 8.4.0.x

Server Model: ALL x86 & x86_64 Compatible Servers

Operating System, Kernel: Oracle Solaris 10 1. Supported on 64 bit

2. An issue has been identified with certain Solaris versions that may cause I/O
failures during a failover scenario. Affected Versions are Solaris 10 Kernel Patches
150400-14(SPARC platform) and higher / 150401-14(x86 platform and Higher. The
following IDRs resolve the issue and are available directly from Oracle IDR151753-
01 and IDR151754-01 for Solaris10 SPARC with kernal patch 150400-30

Adapter (HBA, CNA, etc): Brocade 815 Supported HBA driver and firmware levels are:
Levels available via the HBA/Operating System vendors web pages
- The drivers provided by the operating system (in-distro)
- The InterOP team do recommend that the latest driver and firmware are used

SAN or Networking: IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) For Spectrum Virtualize, FOS 6.x is NO longer supported. A minimum Level of FOS
7.4.2c is required.
Please view the following FOX 7.x and 8.x webpages:

IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 7.x Release Notes

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1003855
OR
IBM SAN b-type Firmware Version 8.x Release Notes
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1009577

See the Flash(Alert) published at URL:

IBM SAN b-type Security Certificate Expiration
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1012047
IBM_Storage_Interoperability_Data_2022-02-09_17-33-34.pdf IBM SSIC: Storage Family: 'IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller', Storage Model: 'SVC Host Attachment', Storage Version: ' ... Go to the first page. Page 11 of 12
Supported Features: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center TPC for replication; please visit : http://www-
(TPC) For Replication see note 03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/center/replication/index.html

IBM SAN Boot Not Supported

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

(TPC) For Disk 5.2.6 - *EOL

Supported Clustering and Multipathing Software

Clustering software Notes Multipathing software Notes

<none> <none>

Sun MPxIO Guidance on configuring Solaris10 MPxIO for use

with SVC Disks (http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=ssg1S1
002938#_Solaris10_8)

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