Planning for storage providers
PowerVC uses the OpenStack cinder block storage service to interact with storage devices. Use this information to ensure that your storage provider is set up to work with PowerVC.
- EMC VNX and EMC PowerMax (VMAX)
- For information about using these models with PowerVC, see Planning for EMC VNX storage or Planning for EMC PowerMax storage.
- Enterprise Hitachi Block Storage Driver (HBSD)
- For information about using this driver with PowerVC, see Hitachi Block Storage driver support.
- Hitachi Global-Active Device (GAD)
- For details, see Planning for Hitachi Global-Active Device (GAD).
- IBM® System Storage® DS8000®
- For details, see Planning for IBM System Storage DS8000.
- IBM Storwize® family
- For supported models, requirements, and restrictions, refer to OpenStack support summary. Starting PowerVC version 2.0.0, you can use the Global Mirror functionality of IBM Storwize for volume replication. You can register a secondary storage for global mirror on the Storage details page of the user interface or through API. For details, see Global Mirror feature on IBM Storwize.
- IBM XIV®
- For details, refer to Planning for IBM System Storage XIV .
- Pure Storage
- For details, see Planning for Pure Storage.
See the following topics for detailed information: