The ClearPath Forward fabric supports a variety of external storage devices. Access to external storage from enterprise partition platforms is provided via standards-based connection methods such as

For details on supported external storage devices, see your Unisys sales representative.

You can boot a partition’s operating system from some external storage devices. See Booting from Internal or External Storage for more information.

Linux partitions can use the InfiniBand with iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) connection to connect to a NetApp E-Series Storage System. This capability provides a high-speed InfiniBand connection between the host partition and its external storage. It is a separately orderable package from Unisys that includes the NetApp E-Series Storage System.

Service representatives from Unisys and NetApp install and configure the functionality.

Note that booting the partition from the NetApp E-Series Storage System is not currently supported.