HP Mainframe Connectivity Design Guide

Operating systems and storage products..........................................................................58
Fabric rules for C-series FICON directors..........................................................................58
Zoning limits and enforcement........................................................................................60
Zoning guidelines for C-series FICON directors.................................................................61
5 McDATA FICON directors and fabric rules...............................................63
McDATA FICON directors...................................................................................................63
Model numbering.........................................................................................................63
Model naming..............................................................................................................63
Director models.............................................................................................................64
Features.......................................................................................................................65
Fabric rules.......................................................................................................................67
Operating systems and storage products..........................................................................67
Fabric rules for McDATA FICON directors.........................................................................67
Port offset.....................................................................................................................68
ISL maximums for McDATA FICON directors.....................................................................68
Zoning limits and enforcement........................................................................................69
Zoning guidelines for McDATA FICON directors................................................................69
Interoperability with B-series directors...................................................................................70
6 FICON SAN fabric connectivity and director interoperability rules...............71
FICON SAN fabric connectivity rules....................................................................................71
FICON director port interfaces........................................................................................71
FICON device port interfaces.........................................................................................71
Fiber optic cables..........................................................................................................71
Fiber optic cable loss budgets.........................................................................................72
Storage product interface and transport distance rules.......................................................75
FICON director interoperability rules....................................................................................82
Dual interoperable, heterogeneous FICON SAN fabrics.....................................................82
FICON third-party director support.......................................................................................83
FICON SAN performance considerations..............................................................................83
Infrastructure factors.......................................................................................................83
Performance guidelines..................................................................................................84
III Mainframe and storage system rules...........................................................85
7 Mainframe rules...................................................................................86
Channel cards...................................................................................................................86
S/390 channel cards....................................................................................................86
zSeries channel cards....................................................................................................86
IBM S/390 processor FICON support rules...........................................................................87
IBM zSeries processor FICON support rules..........................................................................88
IBM z9/z10 processor FICON support rules.........................................................................89
zLinux connectivity overview................................................................................................91
zLinux FCP support rules for HP storage................................................................................93
Maximum unrepeated distance............................................................................................94
Maximum repeated distance...............................................................................................96
FICON SAN zoning rules...................................................................................................96
8 XP7 storage system rules........................................................................97
XP7 storage systems...........................................................................................................97
Vision and Storage Magic..............................................................................................97
Emulating IBM disk arrays and control units.........................................................................104
P9500 mainframe addressing of volumes............................................................................106
GDPS/PPRC and GDPS/XRC command support..............................................................106
Parallel access volumes................................................................................................106
Multiple allegiance......................................................................................................107
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