Connectivity; Fibre Channel; Escon; Ficon - HP StorageWorks XP12000 Owner's Manual

Connectivity

Fibre Channel

ESCON

FICON

1. When more than four FC pairs are installed, each additional pair reduces the maximum number of ACP pairs by one. For
example, an array with six FC pairs can have a maximum of two ACP pairs installed.
2. The maximum number of LUNs is 1024 per installed FC port.
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The disk array uses these types of connections to connect to host systems:
• Fibre Channel
• ESCON
• FICON
The disk array supports:
• A maximum of seven
224 Fibre Channel ports
• Up to 16,384 LDEVs that can be configured as up to 229,376 LUNs
through the Fibre Channel, which provides data transfer rates up to 2
Gb/s depending on the Fibre Channel interface option
• Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) and Fabric Fibre Channel
topologies
The disk array supports a maximum of four pairs of channel adapters that
can support 64 ESCON ports for connection to mainframe hosts and up to
16,384 LDEVs.
The disk array supports a maximum of four pairs of channel adapters that
can support up to 64 FICON ports and up to 16,384 LDEVs.
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pairs of channel adapters that can support up to
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