McDATA ULTRANET EDGE 3000, User Manual

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8
Configuring FICON Extension
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Configuring a 1x1 Ethernet Wide Area Network
• The options selectable from this dialog box are limited by the
license key for the node. If the license key does not provide
support for the Fail Over and Load Balancing network routing
types, only the Dedicated Circuit network routing type is
selectable, and all other options on this dialog are grayed out.
• If you have not entered the licensing information for each node in
the circuit using the
License Wizard , only the Dedicated Circuit
network routing type is selectable from this dialog box.
• If you want to change the Network Routing Type after you have
created the data paths, double-click the F/C interface on the
Network Map. Click the
Network button at the bottom of the F/C
interface dialog box (
FC10 - Node10
) and select the Network
Routing Type. You do not need to create the data paths again to
change the Network Routing Type.
6. Click Next . The FICON Create Data Path Wizard - Choose Data
Options dialog appears.
7. If peer-to-peer VTS will be running on this data path, check the
Peer-to-Peer running on data path
check box. If this option is
selected, FICON Tape Pipelining parameters will be set to the
values found optimal for the Peer to Peer VTS application.
8. Select the port type for the FICON interface from the FICON Port
Options section.