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Physical Planning Considerations
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Connectivity to an IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server
(Generation 5 or Generation 6), with one or more FICON channel
adapter cards installed, using System Automation for Operating
System/390 (SA OS/390) for native FICON, Version 1.3 or later,
plus service listed in the appropriate preventive service planning
(PSP) bucket. The PSP bucket upgrade is HKYSA30.
The minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch without the
control unit port (CUP) feature is Version 2.6, plus service listed in
PSP bucket upgrade 2032, device subset 2032OS390G5+. The
minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch with the CUP
feature is Version 2.1, plus service listed in the preceding PSP
bucket for that function.
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Connectivity to an IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800), zSeries 900
(z900), or zSeries 990 (z990) processor, with one or more FICON
or FICON Express channel adapter cards installed, using the
z/OS operating system, Version 1.1 or later.
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A host-attached Hardware Management Console. The console
runs the Hardware Management Console application (HWMCA)
and is the operations and management PC platform for S/390 or
zSeries servers.
Sphereon 3232, 4300, and 4500 Fabric Switches can be purchased at a
discount without all Fibre Channel ports enabled. The Flexport
Technology feature is a hardware port expansion kit that allows
customers to upgrade switch capacity on demand in eight-port
increments. Flexport Technology kits are available to upgrade the:
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Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch from 16 to 24 ports or
from 24 to 32 ports.
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Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch from four to eight ports or
from eight to 12 ports.
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Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch from eight to 16 ports or
from 16 to 24 ports.
Each port expansion kit includes four or eight SFP optical
transceivers, upgrade instructions, and a feature key that enables the
added port capacity through the Element Manager application.
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