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1. I'm pretty sure there are BIOS checks on the drives, there are on other, older IBM disk arrays

2 They don't supply 2TB disks for it yet, but they likely will do and it will almost certainly support them

3 Yes, you can put in as many or as few disks, though obviously less than 5-6 it doesn't make much sense to be using it

4 The DS3400 is the identical array with a fibre channel interface, it's benchmarked using SPC-1 and SPC-2 here, the performance will be very similar

5 The server's SAS card sees the RAID controller in the DS3200 rather than the raw disks. The presentation is controlled via the IBM Storage Manager client software which connects over TCP/IP. You can build multiple RAID arrays on the DS3200, which would each appear as single disks to the server.

6 The full configuration guide is available as an IBM Redbook and includes multiple screenshots

7 The DS3200 internal controller handles the RAID

The IBM DS3000 series arrays are pretty good at what they do, they're also pretty dumb compared to most other arrays out there, but they are cheap. It's based on an LSI model, Dell sell an essentially identical MD3000 disk array.

Hope that all helps

Click on one of the transport chains. Preferably the httpQueueInboundDefault. I think that this is the port you are looking for.

You should be able to reach the same info by going through server_name > Ports and click on the 'view associated transport' link of the WC_defaulthost. But since you only need the port, you can get it from this table. For https traffic you use the WC_defaulthost_secure.

Disclaimer: I have WAS 7 so I don't know if you see the same info on the same place that I do.