McDATA 3000 manual Configuring Ficon Extension

Configuring a 1x1 Ethernet Wide Area Network

•The options selectable from this dialog box are limited by the license key for the node. If the license key does not provide support for the Fail Over and Load Balancing network routing types, only the Dedicated Circuit network routing type is selectable, and all other options on this dialog are grayed out.

•If you have not entered the licensing information for each node in the circuit using the License Wizard, only the Dedicated Circuit network routing type is selectable from this dialog box.

•If you want to change the Network Routing Type after you have created the data paths, double-click the F/C interface on the Network Map. Click the Network button at the bottom of the F/C interface dialog box (FC10 - Node10) and select the Network Routing Type. You do not need to create the data paths again to change the Network Routing Type.

6.Click Next. The FICON Create Data Path Wizard - Choose Data Options dialog appears.

7.If peer-to-peer VTS will be running on this data path, check the Peer-to-Peer running on data path check box. If this option is selected, FICON Tape Pipelining parameters will be set to the values found optimal for the Peer to Peer VTS application.

8.Select the port type for the FICON interface from the FICON Port Options section.

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