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About SET

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About SET
Applications such as remote copy and data backup use FCIP over an IP network to connect across
geographically distributed SANs. To achieve maximum throughput performance across the fabric, you
can tune the following configuration parameters:
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SET is implemented in IPS ports. When enabled, this feature can be used to generate SCSI I/O
commands (read and write) to the virtual target based on your configured options (see
Figure 34-1
The SET feature assist with tuning by generating varying SCSI traffic workloads. It also measures
throughput and response time per I/ O over FCIP link.

License Prerequisites

To use the SET, you need to obtain the SAN_EXTN_OVER_IP license (see
Installing
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The TCP parameters for the FCIP profile' (see the
The number of concurrent SCSI I/Os generated by the application.
The transfer size used by the application over an FCIP link.
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