Sun Microsystems 96257 manual Ficon Channel Card Configuration 6 VCF Cards

VTSS Configuration Planning

As shown in Figure 2-8, six VCF cards provide 12 physical FICON ports, and each port supports 64 host paths (768 paths total). Cards must be installed in the slots shown (i.e., the third VCF3 card pair must be installed in slots VCF01 and VCF11).

Storage Cluster 0		Storage Cluster 1
VCF00 VCF01 VCF02 VCF03		VCF10 VCF11 VCF12 VCF13
	Card

0A

0C

0E

0G

0I

0K

Channel-Link-Port 0

Channel-Link-Port 1

1A

1C

1E

1G

1I

1K

2 3 4 5Slot12 13 14 15

Host Ports
RTD Ports
Empty slot - no card installed	A504_069

Figure 2-8. FICON Channel Card Configuration – 6 VCF Cards

As shown in Figure 2-9, eight VCF cards provide 16 physical FICON ports, and each port supports 64 host paths (1024 paths total). Cards must be installed in the slots shown (i.e., the third VCF3 card pair must be installed in slots VCF03 and VCF13).

Storage Cluster 0		Storage Cluster 1
VCF00 VCF01 VCF02 VCF03		VCF10 VCF11 VCF12 VCF13
	Card

0A

0C

0E

0G

0I

0K

0M

0O

Channel-Link-Port 0

Channel-Link-Port 1

1A

1C

1E

1G

1I

1K

1M

1O

2 3 4 5 Slot 12 13 14 15

Host Ports

RTD Ports

A504_064

Figure 2-9. FICON Channel Card Configuration – 8 VCF Cards

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