When you upgrade from a prior release to i5/OS V5R4, product 5722-WSV is automatically removed and product 5722-SS1 option 29 is installed in its place.
Increased storage capacity for iSCSI attached Windows servers. Up to 64 disk drives (network server storage spaces) can be attached to an iSCSI attached Windows server, allowing over 60 TB of disk storage per server.
Support for extending the size of a disk drive (network server storage space) is added. See Expand a disk drive.
Support for Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service is added to the integrated file level backup utility. This application can be used to back up your Windows data without stopping your Windows applications.
The file level backup utility is enhanced to be a shadow-copy requestor that requests a snapshot of your Windows volume for backup purposes. This can improve application availability and reliability. For more information, see Back up and recover integrated Windows servers.
Additional iSeries Navigator GUI support, including support for managing iSCSI attached servers, managing integrated Linux® and AIX® servers, and configuring virtual Ethernet ports for integrated servers.
Support for the 200 MHz and 333MHz IBM Integrated PC Server for AS/400® (IPCS) and IBM Integrated Netfinity® Server for AS/400 (INS) is withdrawn. The withdrawn IPCS and INS hardware resource types are 6617 and 2850 with feature codes 2854, 2857, 2865, 2866, 6617 and 6618. Since IPCS and INS servers were the only integrated server types that provided host LAN support (sharing LAN adapters between i5/OS and Windows), the host LAN function has also been withdrawn.
Information previously in this document related to Windows NT® 4.0 servers (which are no longer supported as of V5R3), IPCS or INS hardware (types 6617 and 2850), shared network adapters (host LAN), and considerations for servers installed before V4R5 has been removed from this document. For information related to these topics, refer to the Windows environment on iSeries topic in the V5R3 iSeries Information Center.
What's new as of July 2007
- Multipath I/O is supported on iSCSI-attached integrated Windows® servers.
Multipath I/O enables multiple storage connections and provides automatic failover between connections to ensure that storage is accessible in case of a hardware failure. See Advanced iSCSI support and Configuring multipath I/O.
- Multiple initiator HBA ports on an integrated server can now be configured as a boot device so that the boot process can proceed in case of a hardware failure.
What's new as of January 2007
What's new as of July 2006
What's new as of April 2006
Information about working with iSCSI attached servers is added.
Information about installing and configuring IBM Director Server to work with iSCSI attached integrated servers is added.
What's new as of March 2006
The Windows environment on iSeries topic has been updated with miscellaneous technical changes.
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To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to Users.