About Data Exchange Operations; Components - HP StorageWorks P9000 User Manual

2 About Data Exchange Operations

This chapter describes how Data Exchange operates in typical system configurations and describes
the operations a user may perform using Data Exchange.
• Components, page 15
• FCU File Transfer
• FXmto Operations, page 26
• FXotm Operations, page 31
• FXoto Operations, page 35
• Host Access and I/O
• Bidirectional Data
• AIX Shared Open
• Retry Reserved-Volume
• Get Detail Traces
• Interval Function for OtM Transfer Completion

Components

Figure 1 on page 16 illustrates the typical system configurations for FXmto and FXotm operations.
FXmto/otm operations are performed using the FCU and FAL, which are installed on the open-system
hosts.
Figure 2 on page 16 illustrates the typical system configurations required for FXoto operations, which
are performed using the Formatter (FMT) and Allocater (ALC) utilities in addition to FCU and FAL.
Options, page 20
Contention, page 36
Transfer, page 37
Function, page 38
Function, page 38
Function, page 42
HP StorageWorks P9000 Data Exchange User Guide
(Linux), page 46
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