I also strongly advocate that you enable NPIV on your FCP pchids. Since the
SAN and storage ACLs are all based on WWPN, you want a unique WWPN for each
FCP device on a channel if the devices will be used by multiple
administrative domains.
If you will only ever use FCP devices from z/VM LPARs for
On 2/8/22 00:16, Robert J Brenneman wrote:
IODF devices for FCP do not point to disks - they are simply a hole to dump
frames into the network and pull frames out of the network with. Its a lot
more like OSA devices than DASD. the OSA device is not an endpoint in the
IP network that you are ta
Thanks for the great explanation and the reference
Larry Davis (z/VM Team)
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Robert J
Brenneman
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2022 6:16 PM
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Subject: Re: FCP disks and IOCDS
IODF devices for FCP do not point
IODF devices for FCP do not point to disks - they are simply a hole to dump
frames into the network and pull frames out of the network with. Its a lot
more like OSA devices than DASD. the OSA device is not an endpoint in the
IP network that you are talking to, and neither is the FCP device in th
Cross posting to Linux for s390 and z/VM List Serves
We are looking at using a SAN and connect our z/VM system to it to allow our
Linux servers on z/VM to use it
We are having questions on Connectivity in the IOCP to backend LUN's in the SAN
For FCP Channels you are not allowed to do Multi-Pat
