HP Mainframe Connectivity Design Guide

Hyper PAV.................................................................................................................107
XP7 configuration rules.....................................................................................................107
XP7 configuration examples..........................................................................................108
9 P9500 storage system rules..................................................................103
P9500 storage systems.....................................................................................................103
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
Hyper PAV.................................................................................................................107
P9500 configuration rules.................................................................................................107
P9500 configuration examples......................................................................................108
10 XP storage system rules......................................................................110
XP storage systems...........................................................................................................110
Emulating IBM disk arrays and control units.........................................................................112
XP mainframe addressing of volumes..................................................................................114
GDPS/PPRC and GDPS/XRC command support..............................................................115
Parallel access volumes ...............................................................................................115
Multiple allegiance .....................................................................................................115
Hyper PAV.................................................................................................................115
XP configuration rules.......................................................................................................116
XP configuration examples............................................................................................116
Heterogeneous storage system support................................................................................118
IV FICON and FICON SAN extension.........................................................119
11 FICON and FICON SAN extension.....................................................120
FICON extension overview................................................................................................120
FICON SAN extension overview........................................................................................121
FICON and FICON SAN extension technology....................................................................122
FICON long-distance extension applications........................................................................123
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex.....................................................................123
Direct access storage device.........................................................................................124
Tape vaulting..............................................................................................................126
Channel-to-channel communication................................................................................129
NCR Teradata Data Warehouse System.........................................................................129
FICON long-distance technology.......................................................................................129
Fiber optic transceivers.................................................................................................129
Wavelength division multiplexing..................................................................................131
Extended fabric settings for FICON directors...................................................................135
Multi-protocol long-distance technology...............................................................................137
FICON over FCIP........................................................................................................137
FICON over SONET....................................................................................................150
FICON over ATM........................................................................................................151
HP storage replication products for the mainframe environment..............................................152
Certified third-party WDM and FCIP products......................................................................152
Certified third-party WDM products...............................................................................152
Certified third-party FCIP products.................................................................................152
Certified third-party Fibre Channel over SONET products..................................................152
Certified third-party Fibre Channel over ATM products......................................................152
V Best practices and resource information.....................................................153
12 FICON SAN best practices.................................................................154
FICON SAN design.........................................................................................................154
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