Sun Storedge 3900 Series Features; Additional Sun Storedge 6900 Series Features - Sun Microsystems StorEdge 3900 Series Reference And Service Manual

1.4.2

Sun StorEdge 3900 Series Features

The following are features available on the Sun StorEdge 3900 series:
Host Connect Support–Support for the host connect as a FC switch F port.
Support for NT servers may require the FC switch to be reconfigured for SL or
private loop mode.
Full Fabric Support–Initially the device-side ports on the FC switches are set to
TL, but they can also be configured as F ports for full Fabric support.
LUN Carving and Masking–The ability to carve each underlying Sun StorEdge
T3+ array LUNs into 16 slices for increased device support. That is not 16 per
LUN, but 16 per Sun StorEdge T3+ array.
1.4.3

Additional Sun StorEdge 6900 Series Features

The following additional features are available on the Sun StorEdge 6900 series:
LUN Carving and Masking–The ability to carve each underlying Sun StorEdge
T3+ array into 512 VLUNs for increased device support and customized storage
usage.
Host Connect Support–Support for the host connect as a FC switch F port.
VLUNs presented are accessible as FC devices, as defined by the Sun StorEdge
network FC switch-8 and switch-16 switch rules.
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