IBM DS6000 Series manual 2 DS6000 Model 1750-EX1, DS6800 Model 1750-511 rear view

￿Front-end connectivity with two to eight Fibre Channel host ports which auto negotiate to either 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps link speeds. Each port, long-wave or short-wave, can be either configured for:

–FCP to connect to open system hosts or PPRC FCP links, or both

–FICON host connectivity

The DS6800 storage system can connect to a broad range of servers through its intermix of FCP and FICON front-end I/O adapters. This includes the following servers:

￿IBM eServer zSeries

￿IBM eServer iSeries

￿IBM eServer pSeries

￿IBM eServer xSeries

￿Servers from Sun Microsystems

￿Servers from Hewlett-Packard

￿Servers from other Intel®-based platforms

For an up-to-date and complete interoperability matrix refer to:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ds6000/interop.html

Figure 5-2 DS6800 Model 1750-511 rear view

5.1.2 DS6000 Model 1750-EX1

To configure more than 4.8 TB, the DS6800 can expand with the expansion enclosure model 1750-EX1 to connect a maximum of 128 DDMs per storage system. This brings the maximum storage capacity to a total of 38.4 TB with 300 GB per DDM, when you expand the DS6800 Model 1750-511 by up to 7 DS6000 Models 1750-EX1.

Each expansion enclosure contains the following features:

￿Two expansion controller cards. Each controller card provides the following:

–Two 2 Gbps inbound ports

–Two 2 Gbps outbound ports

–One Fibre Channel switch

￿Disk enclosure which holds up to 16 Fibre Channel DDMs.

￿Two AC/DC power supplies with imbedded enclosure cooling units.

￿Support for attachment to DS6800 Model 1750-511.

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