EMC was/is the biggest IBM competitor in terms of external storage arrays compatible with IBM i OS. Few years ago – EMC was acquired by Dell, but still the company delivers storage compatible natively with IBM i. This connection was possible thru D910 driver embedded into IBM i OS. Different method how IBM storage arrays talk to IBM i OS but still good enough to use NPIV protocol and get decent performance from an external storage array.

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