Hi Alan,
What you want to say "point to point". If I understood correctly, I can connect FICON directly to SUN Storage, but not thru Brocade switch.
Please clarify for my, since this is very confuse to me.
Thanks
Carlos
| De: | "The IBM z/VM Operating System" IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU |
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| Data: | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:26:12 -0400 |
| Assunto: | Re: Some help with z890 Ficon and Sun SAN. |
> On Tuesday, 07/18/2006 at 07:54 ZW3, Bodra - Pessoal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > 1 ? Today we have an IBM z890 with Escon and Ficon channels installed.
> > 2 ? We have some z/Linux guest machines under z/VM.
> > 3 ? We want to use some available space in a SAN compost of SUN SE-6320,
> 2
> > switch FC Brocade 3850, one SUN LTO-2 to hold a Data Base application to
> be
> > accessed by z/Linux.
> >
> > My questions are:
> > A ? It?s possible to connect Ficon channels directly to SAN switch?
>
> No. FICON connections are not the same as Fibre Channel. Well, they are,
> sort of. That is, FICON is another protocol layer on top of Fibre
> Channel. FICON doesn't carry SCSI commands and only connects to a FICON
> switch or, for CTC, I think you can do point-to-point.
>
> > B ? If A isn?t true, there are an alternative. (A black box to convert
> signals)
> >
> > Sun support team say that this machine (SE-6320) is for mid-range
> environment
> > with SCSI characteristics, and isn?t possible to connect Ficon channel
> to it,
> > but and about FCP feature of z890? It?s supported by z/VM, right?
>
> The Sun support team is correct: The FCP feature is what you want. It
> connects to a Fibre Channel switch and through that to your SAN. (There
> is also the capability of point-to-point connection directly to the
> device.)
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
