TotalStorage® DS4500 Storage Server
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device
IBM		23 May 2006
84038

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  NetWare® 6.5     Support Pack 2 for NetWare® 6.5

Other Products:
  Novell Cluster Services™ 1.7 

Product Description
The TotalStorage® DS4500 Storage Server's fifth-generation enterprise controller architecture boasts independent processing elements and separate memories; reducing contention and letting each element focus on its specific job. Its high-speed XOR engine generates RAID parity calculations without a performance penalty, enabling this compute-intensive task to be handled efficiently and effortlessly. A separate processor focuses on data movement control, allowing setup and control instructions to be processed and dispatched independent of data. Two DS4500 controllers are integrated into a controller module and combined with one or more drive modules to create a fully featured storage system. These dual controller systems are fully redundant and support up to eight 2Gb/s or 1Gb/s FIbre Channel host connections and 224 Fibre Channel or SATA disk drives.

Primary Driver File(s):
QL2300.HAM  ( 415835 bytes   18-May-2005 11:24   6.80h    )   
SCSIHD.CDM  ( 25079 bytes   22-Apr-2003 16:36   3.01c    )   

Driver Support File(s)
SCSIHD.DDI  ( 7548 bytes   23-Jul-1998 09:23   2.00)
QL2300.DDI  ( 29455 bytes   28-May-2004 13:21   2.06)

Storage Area Network
Product NameTotalStorage® DS4500 Storage Server
Interface:FibreChannel
Firmware:0612

Tested Configuration:
Hard Disk Drive:Engenio  INF-01-00 Logical Device , Interface: FibreChannel , Firmware: 0612
Host Bus Adapter:QLogic  QLA2342 Dual Channel 2Gb Fibre Channel to 133MHz PCI-X HBA. , Interface: FibreChannel , Version: 1.43
QLogic  QLogic QLA2340 64-Bit PCI-X to 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel Adapter , Interface: FibreChannel , Version: 1.43
QLogic  QLA2310 / QLA2310F 64-Bit Fibre Channel Adapter. , Interface: FibreChannel , Version: 1.43
System:Dell  PowerEdge 6650
Test Kit:Diskkit 4.04.20 - 02-17-2005

Config Notes
Tested with both NetWare and QLogic multi-path solutions.


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