Platform and application integration

IBM® storage systems are integrated with various independent software vendor (ISV) platforms and applications on the host side. To better incorporate IBM storage system with these ISV platforms and applications, IBM provides different software solutions for server virtualization, geo-clustering, failover, storage management, host connectivity, and more.

The following links lead to the online documentation and full version information of the currently available host-side solutions for the various IBM storage products. To know more about which system storage versions are supported, see the release notes for the individual platform or application.
IBM DS8000 Family products integrate with the following
IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R integrate with the following
In addition, for IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit (HAK) product information, see IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit. IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit is no longer supported but may still work on your operating system. See the product documentation for more information. For more information about direct host attachment connectivity support, see the latest Configuring section of your FlashSystem A9000 or A9000R documentation.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize family, including SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and FlashSystem® family members built with Spectrum® Virtualize (including FlashSystem 5xxx, 7xxx, 9xxx), and Storwize products, integrate with the following
In addition, the IBM Spectrum Virtualize family also integrates with the following plugins:
  • Spectrum Virtualize family volume driver for Cinder supports various OpenStack versions of Storwize family and IBM FlashSystem systems. For more information, see the Reference > OpenStack support summary page of your specific storage product. For release notes and user information, see OpenStack Documentation.
  • Ansible® Collections for IBM Spectrum Virtualize. For the latest Ibm.Spectrum_Virtualize Ansible Collection documentation, see Ibm.Spectrum_Virtualize Collection on Ansible Documentation.
  • ODF FlashSystem Operator 1.0.0 and ODF FlashSystem Driver 1.0.0 with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF). For more information, see the Reference > OpenShift Data Foundation support summary page of your specific storage product.
IBM XIV Storage System integrates with the following
In addition, for IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit (HAK) product information, see IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit. IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit is no longer supported but may still work on your operating system. See the product documentation for more information.

IBM Spectrum Accelerate integrates with the following
Important: For full IBM Spectrum Accelerate end of support information, see https://ibm.biz/BdfWcQ and https://ibm.biz/BdfWcP.
In addition, for IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit (HAK) product information, see IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit. IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit is no longer supported but may still work on your operating system. See the product documentation for more information.

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified integrates with the following