IBM Z10 BUISNESS CLASS Z10 BC, Installation Manual

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configuration.
Central
Coupling
Facilities
= Perforated floor tile
= Cool aisle, 1.22 meters (48 inches) wide
= Exhaust (heated air from equipment)
= 610 mm (24 in) floor tiles
Central
Coupling
Facilities
3. Sysplex connections will be made using ISC-3 and ICB-2, ICB-3, ICB-4, and
InfiniBand fiber optic link cabling. The Sysplex itself may be comprised of
servers connected through an ECF/ETR feature to a Sysplex Timer, servers
connected to each other through the Server Timed Protocol feature (STP), or a
mixture of both types of connections.
Notes:
a. Integrated cluster bus (ICB) links use a Self-Timed Interconnect (STI) to
perform coupling communication between systems. If you are planning to
install integrated cluster bus channels, you will have to place connected
devices closer to each other than 10 meters to allow for cable routing
between equipment. Allow 7 meters maximum of real space between system
frames.
b. zSeries 900 and zSeries 800 servers may not participate in a Parallel
Sysplex with z10 EC and z10 BC servers.
c. z10 EC and z10 BC servers can communicate directly in a Sysplex
environment with z9 EC, z9 BC, zSeries 990 and zSeries 890.
Level 03c, May 2011
90
z10 BC IMPP