Integrated Xseries Adapter (Direct Attach) - IBM i series Handbook

Feature Description
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#1460 3m Copper HSL Cable
#1461 6m Copper HSL Cable
#1462 15m Copper HSL Cable
#1470 6m Optical HSL Cable
#1471 30m Optical HSL Cable
#1472 100m Optical HSL Cable
#1473 250m Optical HSL Cable
Note: The #1462 15m HSL cable can only be used on HSL port A1 of the Model 820 to
directly connect a #5033, #5034, or #5035 Migration Tower I.
To allow the connection of expansion towers to the Optical HSL, a #2739/#9739 Optical Bus
Adapter is required for each of the #5074, #0578, and #5078 expansion towers. For the
#5079 1.8m PCI I/O Expansion Tower, two of these features are required if both upper and
lower #5074 units of the #5079 are to be connected using Optical HSL.
Due to the high bandwidth of HSL, you should see comparable performance, whether using
copper or optical HSL, even though optical runs at a slower speed. However, for intensive I/O
bandwidth requirements (for example, large system data mining), you may experience some
performance degradation with optical HSL. Use less than the allowed maximum number of
I/O towers on an optical HSL loop to optimize performance.
OS/400 V5R1 and supporting PTFs are required. Refer to Informational APAR II12949 at:
http://as400service.rochester.ibm.com/supporthome.nsf/document/10000035

Integrated xSeries Adapter (direct attach)

The IBM Integrated xSeries Adapter for iSeries provides a direct high-speed attachment of an
xSeries server to an iSeries server. It installs in select xSeries servers. It extends iSeries
integration with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server to xSeries high performance n-way Intel
architecture servers. With the Integrated xSeries Adapter, more Windows users and more
complex Windows applications can be integrated with iSeries servers.
The direct attach server consists of an xSeries server tower that contains an Integrated
xSeries Adapter (MT1519-100). The Integrated xSeries Adapter reports to the iSeries
Hardware Service Manager as CCIN 2689.
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