HP P9000 Continuous Access Synchronous for Mainframe Systems User Guide (AV400-96398, October 2011)

2 Requirements and specifications
This chapter provides basic system requirements, along with specifications for BCM, PPRC, and
other mainframe-related interfaces and functions. In addition to the information in this chapter,
“Planning for Continuous Access Synchronous Z” (page 25) provides many specifications,
recommendations, and restrictions for the elements of a Continuous Access Synchronous Z system
that require attention before setting up and using Continuous Access Synchronous Z.
System requirements
Continuous Access Synchronous Z operations require P9500 main and remote disk array containing
the M-VOLs and R-VOLs, data paths between the disk arrays, host(s) on the primary and remote
sites, and interface software.
The following lists and describe general requirements.
Table 2 General system requirements
RequirementItem
3390-1, 3390-2, 3390-3, 3390-9, 3390-L, 3380-3, 3390-MSupported device
emulation types
Main and remote sites
• At the main site, P9500 is required.
• At the remote site, the following models can be used:
P9500
XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array (60–07–51–xx/xx or later)
XP12000/XP10000 Disk Array (50–09–98–xx/xx or later)
Contact your HP team for assistance.
Continuous Access Synchronous Z supports RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID6 configurations.RAID levels supported
Continuous Access
Synchronous Z
• Separate license keys are required for each system.
• Must be installed on main and remote system
• Synchronous only. P9500 does not support Asynchronous.
• Can co-exist with Continuous Access Synchronous.
None.Other required licenses
Supported mainframe host
operating systems
• zLinux
• OS/390
• zOS
• z/VM
• z/VSE
Contact your HP account team for the latest information.
Mainframe related
• IBM PPRC is supported.
• If the R-VOL is assigned to the M-VOL of Continuous Access Journal Z, and the main
and/or remote systems consist of several CPU complexes, a SYSPLEX timer is required
to provide a common time reference for the host I/O timestamping function.
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Fibre Channel (FICON), direct or with switch connections. See “Planning data paths”
(page 34).
8 paths at maximum, from MCU to RCU.
Data path
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