Dear Friends,
I have tasked with evaluating what it would take to partition an
existing 2105-F20 Shark to create an open system SAN. The shark is 2TB
with 8 36GB eightpacks, 4 long-wave FICON adapters and 16GB of cache. At
the moment the storage is configured exclusively for use by mainframe
systems. The reconfiguration I am looking at would see the Shark divided
roughly half and half for mainframe and open systems.
I have a number of questions:
1) I presume most of the work here is in reconfiguring the
clusters to dedicate some storage to the open systems side. Can anyone
share there experiences in doing this?
2) I presume I will need some sort of SAN controller to attach to
the shark via FICON (fiber channel). Does this connection have to be
short wave or long wave?
3) Is the cache either partitionable or shareable?
4) Any hints, tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Nigel Salway
Senior Analyst
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Regina, SK S4P 4K8
Telephone: (306) 761-4063
Fax: (306) 761-4141
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