Open-Systems Operations; Open-Systems Compatibility And Functionality - Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Hardware Manual

See the following user documents for information and instructions about
configuring your storage system for Mainframe operations:
• The Mainframe Host Attachment and Operations Guide, describes and
• The System Administrator Guide provides instructions for installing,
• The Provisioning Guide for Mainframe Systems provide instructions for

Open-systems operations

This section provides high-level descriptions of open-systems compatibility,
support, and configuration for storage systems.

Open-systems compatibility and functionality

The VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 storage systems support many
features and functions for the open-systems environment, including:
• Compatibility with most iSCSI adapters, Fibre Channel host bus adapters
• Multi-initiator I/O configurations with multiple host systems attached to
• Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) topology, supported on ports up to
• Fibre Channel fabric topology using direct attach point-to-point
• Command tag queuing
• Industry-standard failover and logical volume management software
• SNMP remote storage system management
The global cache feature in VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 enables
any port to have access to any logical unit in the storage system. Each logical
unit can be assigned to multiple ports to provide I/O path failover and load
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, G1500, and Virtual Storage Platform F1500 Hardware Guide
provides instructions related to configuring the storage system for
Mainframe operations, including FICON attachment, hardware definition,
cache operations, and device operations.
For detailed information about FICON connectivity, FICON or Open intermix
configurations, and supported HBAs, switches, and directors for VSP
G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500, contact customer support.
configuring, and using Device Manager - Storage Navigator to perform
resource and data management operations on the storage systems.
converting single volumes (LVIs) into multiple smaller volumes to improve
data access performance.
(HBAs), and Fibre Channel-over-Ethernet (FCoE) converged network
adapters (CNAs)
the same Fibre Channel interface
8 Gbps
connections, supported on ports up to 16 Gbps
Note: When using 16-Gbps FC front-end director in an FC-AL
topology, the transmission speed is limited to 8 Gbps.
Hardware architecture