Operating environment

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To use the system, you must meet the minimum hardware and software requirements and ensure that other operating environment criteria are met.

Supported hosts

In a storage area network (SAN) environment, host systems are application servers that access data from the storage controllers that are connected to the SAN. Hosts that are running in a number of operating environments can connect to the storage by using the system.

For a list of the supported host operating systems, see the following website:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic/interoperability.wss

Multipathing software

For information about multipathing software, see http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic/interoperability.wss

User interfaces

The system provides these user interfaces:

  • The management GUI, a web-accessible graphical user interface (GUI) that supports flexible and rapid access to storage management information.
  • A command-line interface (CLI) that uses Secure Shell (SSH).
  • Service assistant, a web application that helps troubleshoot and resolve problems on a node .

Application programming interfaces

The system provides an application programming interface that is called the Common Information Model (CIM) agent. The CIM agent supports the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) of the Storage Network Industry Association.