IBM DS8000 manual Way I/O controllers, Linear-scalable architecture

Linear-scalable architecture

The following two figures illustrate how you can realize the linear scalability in the DS8000 series.

		Hosts
2-way I/O controllers
	Host	Device
Processor Complex	Adapter	Adapter
Data Cache
and	I/O
Persistent
	Enclosure
Memory
2-way		RIO-G
processor
		Disks
Figure 6-6 2-way model components

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