HP Mainframe Connectivity Design Guide

Table 91 (page 147) lists the features and requirements for the B-series 400 MP Router and MP

Router Blade.

Table 91 B-series 400 MP Router and MP Router Blade features and requirements

RequirementsFeature

B-series DC SAN Backbone Director with FR4-18i bladeFICON director hardware

support for iSCSI and FCIP

B-series DC04 SAN Director with FR4-18i blade

B-series 4/256 SAN Director with FR4-18i blade

B-series 400 Multi-protocol Router

TCP/IP IPv4, Ethernet 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s, and 1,000 Mb/sIP network protocols

All 400 MP Router and MP Router Blade FCIP implementations must have dedicated IP

bandwidth. HP does not support 400 MP Router or MP Router Blade configurations with

FCIP tunnels configured with nondedicated bandwidth. For more information about

configuring and monitoring FCIP extension services, see HP StorageWorks Fabric OS

6.x Administrator Guide.

Notes:

• HP P9000/XP Continuous Access storage systems require a minimum IP bandwidth

of 16 Mb/s.

• FCIP is supported with IPsec data encryption (license required) or Fastwrite

acceleration. This requires a minimum of firmware version 5.2.0a.

• IPsec and Fastwrite are mutually exclusive and cannot be

configured simultaneously.

• The connection to the 400 MP Router and MP Router Blade FCIP port must be GbE

compatible.

HP P9000 Continuous Access SynchronousStorage system replication

HP P9000 Continuous Access Journal

HP XP Continuous Access Synchronous

HP XP Continuous Access Journal

XRC

VTS

VSM

FICON tape

400 MP Router and MP Router Blade documentation is available at the SAN Infrastructure

website http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure/index.html.

Documentation

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