RE: More DASD

["Lukas Beeler" <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, no, no.

I just tried to explain something to Karl.

Here's the full story, as far as my knowledge goes:

The i5 can't access storage through iSCSI (Act as an iSCSI Initiator).
This is what i wanted to do once, but after some talking with IBM, figured out 
that this wasn't possible yet.

The i5 can act as an iSCSI target. This is used in newer Systems to attach 
BladeCenters or xSeries to the i5. This is used instead of the "old" IXA 
Adapters (which used HSL, or HSL2, if i remember that right). The xSeries or 
Blade then use the i5 as storage, instead of using a a SAN.

Now, Karl talked about attaching a DS300 (which is an iSCSI Target) to the i5. 
This is, as far as my knowledge goes, not possible. I assumed he wanted to do 
this through some kind of hack like attaching the DS300 to an xSeries server, 
which the i5 then accesses through the QNTC Filesystem. (That would allow the 
i5 to access the storage an DS300, even though so in a very limited and plain 
ugly fashion).

I really hope this clears things up now, i didn't really want to offend anyone 
here.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu 8/3/2006 9:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: More DASD
 
No problem.  Now I understand what it is you want.

Where would the disk be on the iSCSI, back on the i5?  Seems rather 
roundabout.
Or would you have the iSCSI controlled by the i5 but the blades on the 
iSCSI using disk elsewhere, like a SAN or something?  And then you'd want 
to get to that SAN?

Rob Berendt