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Figure 15 – The Lightning 9900 V Series systems support both mainframe and open system hosts.
Table 2 – Bandwidth of supported interfaces of the Lightning 9900 V Series.
Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces
The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900 V Series is shown in Table 2.
Supported Interface | Bandwidth |
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Fibre Channel Adapters | 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec |
ESCON® Adapters | 17.5MB/sec |
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FICON™ Adapters | 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec |
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Number of Host Interfaces Supported
Up to 64 Fibre Channel, 48 ESCON, or 32 FICON ports are available on the
Lightning 9980V™ system and up to 24 on the Lightning 9970V™ system. Only 2 ACP pairs are sequenced on the Lightning 9980V system for 48 ESCON ports.
Types of Hosts Supported with Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the Lightning 9900 V Series Systems
The Lightning 9900 V Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900 V Series supports direct Fibre Channel host attachment to all major open systems and mainframe platforms as listed below:
•Microsoft® Windows NT®
•Microsoft Windows® 2000
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•Solaris™ (Sun™)
•AIX® 32 and 64 bit (IBM®)
•NetWare® (Novell®)
•Linux® (United Linux®, Red Hat®, SuSE®, Turbolinux®)
•IRIX® (SGI™)
•Tru64™ UNIX® (HP®)
•OpenVMS™ (HP®)
•DYNIX/ptx® (IBM®)
•Mainframes (MVS®, VSE®, VM®, OS/390®, zOS®,, Linux®)
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