Hitachi G1500 - Open-Systems Operations; Open-Systems Compatibility and Functionality

See the following user documents for information and instructions about conguring
your storage system for Mainframe operations:
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The Mainfr
ame Host Attachment and Oper
ations Guide, describes and pr
o
vides
instructions related to conguring the storage system for Mainframe operations,
including FICON attachment, hardware denition, cache operations, and device
operations.
For detailed information about FICON connectivity, FICON or Open intermix
congurations, and supported HBAs, switches, and directors for VSP G1000, VSP
G1500, and VSP F1500, contact customer support.
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The System Administrator Guide provides instructions for installing, conguring, and
using Device Manager - Storage Navigator to perform resource and data management
operations on the storage systems.
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The Provisioning Guide for Mainframe Systems provide instructions for converting single
volumes (LVIs) into multiple smaller volumes to improve data access performance.
Open-systems operations
This section provides high-level descriptions of open-systems compatibility, support, and
conguration for storage systems.
Open-systems compatibility and functionality
The VSP G1000
, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 storage systems support many features and
functions for the open-systems environment, including:
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Compatibility with most iSCSI adapters, Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), and
Fibre Channel-over-Ethernet (FCoE) converged network adapters (CNAs)
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Multi-initiator I/O congurations with multiple host systems attached to the same
Fibre Channel interface
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Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) topology, supported on ports up to 8 Gbps
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Fibre Channel fabric topology using direct attach point-to-point connections,
supported on ports up to 16 Gbps
Note: When using 16-Gbps FC
fr
ont-end dir
ector
in an FC-AL topology, the
transmission speed is limited to 8 Gbps.
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Command tag queuing
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Industry-standard failover and logical volume management software
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SNMP r
emote storage system management
The global cache feature in VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 enables any port to
have access to any logical unit in the storage system. Each logical unit can be assigned to
multiple ports to provide I/O path failover and load balancing (with the appropriate
middleware support, such as Hitachi Global Link Manager) without sacricing cache
coherency.
Open-systems operations
Chapter 3: Har
dware architecture
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