Supported storage devices and file systems
RSCT storage resource manager support is available for various systems and devices.
The following information describes the RSCT storage resource
manager support for:
- Single-path and multipath storage devices of the IBM® System Storage® DS4000® family
- Single-path and multipath storage devices on other IBM System Storage disk systems
- Single-path, non-DS4000 storage devices
- Network file systems (NFS)
Note: Although the storage resource manager can harvest and monitor
any number of supported, attached, external storage devices, it will
not harvest more than one local disk on each system.
Support for single-path and multipath storage devices of the IBM System Storage DS4000 family
Table 1 describes the storage resource
manager support for single-path and multipath storage devices of the IBM System Storage DS4000 family.
AIX® | Linux® on the System z® hardware platform | Power Systems running on Linux
Linux on the System x hardware platform |
---|---|---|
Full support is available for
single-path I/O (SPIO) storage devices and for multipath I/O (MPIO)
storage devices:
Limitations:
|
Only user-defined IBM.AgFileSystem resources can be automated. Limitations:
|
Full support is available for
SPIO devices and for MPIO devices with RDAC device drivers:
Limitations:
|
Support for single-path and multipath storage devices on other IBM System Storage disk systems
Table 2 describes the storage resource
manager support for single-path and multipath storage devices on other IBM System Storage disk systems.
AIX | Linux on the System z hardware platform | Power Systems running on Linux
Linux on the System x hardware platform |
---|---|---|
Full support is available for
single-path I/O (SPIO) storage devices and for multipath I/O (MPIO)
storage devices:
Limitations:
|
Only user-defined IBM.AgFileSystem resources can be automated. Limitations:
|
Full support is available for
SPIO devices and limited support for MPIO devices for the IBM System Storage disk systems:
Limitations:
|
Support for single-path, non-DS4000 storage devices
Table 3 describes the storage resource
manager support for single-path, non-DS4000 storage
devices.
AIX | Linux on the System z hardware platform | Power Systems running on Linux
Linux on the System x hardware platform |
---|---|---|
Full support is available for
single-path storage devices:
Limitations:
|
Only user-defined IBM.AgFileSystem resources can be automated. Limitations:
|
Limited support is available:
Limitations:
|
Support for network file systems
Table 4 describes the storage resource
manager support for network file systems.
AIX | Linux on the System z hardware platform | Power Systems running on Linux
Linux on the System x hardware platform |
---|---|---|
Network file systems are not harvested. To automate such file systems, you must use user-defined IBM.AgFileSystem resources. | Network file systems are not harvested. To automate such file systems, you must use user-defined IBM.AgFileSystem resources. | Network file systems are not harvested. To automate such file systems, you must use user-defined IBM.AgFileSystem resources. |
Note: Network file systems of class IBM.AgFileSystem can only be automated
and monitored successfully if the root user of the importing system
has write access to the file system.