Specifications

Each chapter describes how to attach an ESS to open-system hosts with SCSI
adapters or fibre-channel adapters.
Prerequisites
IBM recommends you read the following publications before you use the IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Host Systems Attachment Guide:
v IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Introduction and Planning Guide
v IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Configuration Planner
Publications
The tables in this section list and describe the following publications:
v The publications that compose the IBM TotalStorage ESS library.
v Other IBM publications that relate to the ESS.
v non-IBM publications that relate to the ESS.
See “Ordering ESS publications” on page xvii for information about how to order
publications in the IBM TotalStorage ESS publication library. See “How to send your
comments” on page xxii for information about how to send comments about the
publications.
The IBM TotalStorage ESS library
Table 1 shows the customer publications that comprise the ESS library. See “The
IBM publications center” on page xvii for information about ordering these and other
IBM publications.
Table 1. Publications in the ESS library
Long title (short title) Description Order number
IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Storage Server
Copy Services
Command-line Interface
User’s Guide (ESS CLI
User’s Guide)
This user’s guide describes the commands you can use
from the ESS Copy Services command-line interface (CLI).
The CLI application provides a set of commands you can
use to write customized scripts for a host system. The
scripts initiate pre-defined tasks in an ESS Copy Services
server application. You can use the CLI commands to
indirectly control ESS Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy and
FlashCopy configuration tasks within an ESS Copy Services
server group.
This book is not available in hardcopy. It is available in PDF
format on the following Web site:
www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/products/ess/refinfo.htm
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IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Storage Server
Configuration Planner
(ESS Configuration
Planner)
This guide provides work sheets for planning the logical
configuration of the ESS. This book is not available in
hardcopy. This guide is available on the following Web site:
www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/products/ess/refinfo.htm
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IBM TotalStorage
Enterprise Storage Server
Host Systems Attachment
Guide (ESS Attachment
Guide)
This book provides guidelines for attaching the ESS to your
host system and for migrating from Small Computer System
Interface (SCSI) to fibre-channel attachment.
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