Originally posted by: Tibor_B

Hi

We have couple of AIX 5.2-TL9 servers with old sdd drivers, connected to SVC v. 6.4.1.2. It is time to upgrade these old sdd drivers to sddpcm. But unlike our other servers these are 5.2 and according to this:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/subsystem/aix/2.6.3.2/sddpcm.readme.2.6.3.2.txt
highest possible sddpcm version is 2.2.0.3.

So my question is - is this version fine & supported?

I was not able to find out if older than 2.6.x.x versions of sddpcm are still fine for production environment.

thanks

T.
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Originally posted by: dukessd

I have to say AIX 5.2 is not fine for a production environment, even AIX 5.3 is now out of support!

Even worse the latest AIX 5.2 TL9 service pack, AIX 5.2 TL9 CSP, was released June 2007, where as the last fix pack for AIX 5.2 was TL10 SP8 which was released in July 2009!

From the IBM SSIC AIX 5.2 TL9 is not tested with SVC, at all, or maybe it's just so out of date they removed the information ;0)
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic/interoperability.wss

AIX 5.2 TL10 with SVC 6.4 is OK with SDDPCM 2.2.00 through 2.4.0.2.

HTH
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Originally posted by: Tibor_B

Thank you for your answer.

5.2 is outdated I know, but .... it is complicated.

You said 2.2.00 through 2.4.0.2 is fine but we will rather opt for version 2.2.0.3, it is in line with txt file I linked here.

I was just not sure if versions older then 2.6.x are fine&working at all. According to a compatibility matrix I found on net it looked like version 2.6.x is strictly required.

Regards
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Originally posted by: Tibor_B

UPDATE to my answer above:
According to this ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/subsystem/aix/2.4.0.2/sddpcm.readme.2.4.0.2.txt
v 2.4.0.2 should be working with AIX 5.2, so I will use it
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