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EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 Product Guide
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Contents
Chapter 2 Symmetrix DMX-3 Hardware
Major components............................................................................ 46
Symmetrix DMX-3 and component scaling attributes......... 50
DMX-3 configuration rules and guidelines........................... 51
Symmetrix DMX-3 architecture...................................................... 53
DMX-3 block diagram............................................................... 53
DMX-3 point-to-point message matrix................................... 55
DMX-3 midplane slot configuration....................................... 56
DMX-3 slot configuration......................................................... 57
Symmetrix channel connectivity and host integration ............... 59
Channel connectivity ................................................................ 59
Symmetrix channel configurations......................................... 60
Supported Fibre Channel interfaces ....................................... 60
Supported cluster hosts ............................................................ 60
Mainframe serial channel interfaces....................................... 60
Supported mainframe operating systems.............................. 61
Fibre Channel disk subsystem........................................................ 62
Disk drives.................................................................................. 62
Link control cards (LCC) .......................................................... 63
Power supply/ cooling module.............................................. 63
Symmetrix DMX disk drive capacities................................... 64
Symmetrix DMX-3 logical volume capacities ....................... 66
Configuration rules for vault devices..................................... 68
Symmetrix DMX disk drive emulations ................................ 68
Deleting (and then adding) devices online............................ 69
Open system disk emulation ................................................... 69
IBM CKD DASD disk emulation............................................. 71
Channel, disk, and global memory directors ............................... 75
Channel director connectivity ................................................. 75
Channel director descriptions.................................................. 76
Fibre Channel directors (front-end) ........................................ 77
Fibre Channel adapters (front-end) ........................................ 78
ESCON channel directors......................................................... 79
Multiprotocol Channel Directors ............................................ 80
FICON channel director ........................................................... 80
Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) remote directors .............................. 81
GigE IPv4/v6 (IPsec capable) director ................................... 82
iSCSI channel directors............................................................. 82
Fibre Channel disk directors (back-end)................................ 83
Global memory directors.......................................................... 83
Global memory director configuration .................................. 85
Symmetrix DMX-3 power subsystems.......................................... 86
System bay power subsystem components........................... 86