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McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual
Planning Considerations for Fibre Channel Topologies
Minimum
Requirements
The following are minimum hardware, firmware, and software
requirements to configure and enable a FICON-cascaded SAN:
• A single-vendor switching environment with two or more of
the following McDATA directors or switches:
— Intrepid 6064 or 6140 Director.
— Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch.
• E/OS Version 4.0 (or later) must be installed on all directors or
switches. E/OS firmware Version 6.0 (or later) is recommended.
All fabric elements must be at the same firmware version level.
• The SANtegrity Binding feature key must be installed and
enabled on all directors and switches. Enterprise Fabric Mode
must also be enabled on all fabric elements.
• Enterprise Fabric Connectivity manager (EFCM) Version 6.0 or
later must be installed on the director or switch management
server. SANavigator 4.2 or EFCM 8.6 is recommended.
• One or more of the following IBM servers with FICON or FICON
Express™ channel adapter cards:
— eServer zSeries 800 (z800) processor.
— eServer zSeries 900 (z900) processor.
— eServer zSeries 990 (z990) processor.
NOTE: FICON cascading is not supported for IBM S/390 Parallel
Enterprise Servers (Generation 5 or Generation 6).
• The z/OS Version 1.3 or Version 1.4 operating system
(with service as defined in PSP Buckets for device type 2032,
2042, 2064, or 2066) must be installed on the IBM server.
• Licensed Internal Code (LIC) driver 3G at microcode level (MCL)
J11206 or later must be installed on the IBM server.