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IBM Redbooks > Infrastructure Solutions
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 Linux on zSeries: Fibre Channel Protocol Implementation Guide
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This IBM Redbook discusses implementing Fibre Channel Protocol for Linux running on IBM ^ zSeries servers to access industry-standard SCSI devices in a Storage Area Network. The intended audience for this book is IT system administrators who plan to connect Linux servers to SCSI devices.
Using the SCSI IPL feature, Linux for zSeries can IPL from FCP-attached SCSI disks. With multipathing support, Linux servers can take advantage of the performance and high-availability benefits provided by parallel access to SCSI disks.
Configuration for both SUSE and Red Hat distributions is covered. We introduce FCP concepts and terminology, examine FCP mapping to the Linux SCSI subsystem, and illustrate installing a bootable Linux root file system on SCSI disk. We cover multipath configuration to SCSI for several Linux distributions, SAN security topics, using dump tools with SCSI devices, and configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for SCSI tape devices. |
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Chapter 1. Fibre Channel Protocol concepts
Chapter 2. Accessing FCP devices from Linux guests
Chapter 3. Configuring zSeries to use Fibre Channel Protocol
Chapter 4. Installing SUSE SLES8 on FCP-attached SCSI
Chapter 5. Installing Red Hat RHEL 3 on FCP-attached SCSI
Chapter 6. Installing SUSE SLES9 on FCP-attached SCSI
Chapter 7. Multipath FCP on Red Hat RHEL 3
Chapter 8. Multipath FCP on SUSE SLES8
Chapter 9. Multipath FCP on SUSE SLES9
Chapter 10. FCP security topics
Appendix A. Using zSeries dump tools with FCP
Appendix B. Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with FCP |
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