IBM System storage DS6000 Series, Introduction And Planning Manual

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Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) and FICON. This can help protect your investment in
fibre channel adapters, and increase your ability to migrate to new servers.
The DS6800 system offers connectivity support across a broad range of server
environments, including IBM eServer
™
, zSeries
®
, iSeries
™
, and pSeries
®
servers as
well as servers from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and other Intel-based
providers. This rich support of heterogeneous environments and attachments, along
with the flexibility to easily partition the DS6800 system storage capacity among the
attached environments, helps support storage consolidation requirements and
dynamic, changing environments.
DS6000 expansion enclosure (Model 1750-EX1)
The DS6000 series expansion enclosure contains the following features:
v
Two expansion controller cards. Each controller card provides the following:
– 2 inbound ports (2 Gb/sec.)
– 2 outbound ports (2 Gb/sec.)
– 1 FC switch per controller card
v Controller disk enclosure that holds up to 16 FC DDMs
v
Two ac/dc power supplies with imbedded enclosure cooling units
v Supports attachment to DS6800
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The 3U DS6000 expansion enclosure can be mounted in a standard 19-inch rack.
The front of the enclosure contains the docking sites where you can install up to 16
DDMs.
Chapter 1. Introduction
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