Physical Host Connection Specifications; Logical Host Connection Specifications - HP XP P9500 Operation Manual

Figure 12 Required high-integrity features for cascaded topologies

Physical host connection specifications

The following table lists the physical specifications associated with host connections.
Table 8 FICON host and RAID physical connection specifications
2/4/8 Gbps
CHA
Link Bandwidth
Connector
Cable

Logical host connection specifications

Figure 13 (page 19)
In Figure 13 (page
the maximum limit is increased). In this example, CHL path configuration can be reduced.
18 FICON/zHPF host attachment
P9000 disk array
z900
Native FICON
2/4/8 Gbps N/A
(Auto-negotiation)
1 / 2 / 4 Gbps 1 Gbps
(Auto-negotiation)
LC-Duplex SC-Duplex
Single Mode Single Mode
Multi Mode Multi Mode
shows an example of FICON logical host connections.
19), up to 16,384 unit addresses are supported for each CHL port (in this case,
Host
z990 z9, z10, z196
FICON Express FICON Express
FICON Express2
FICON Express4
FICON Express8
2 Gbps 2/4 Gbps (z9)
2/4/8 Gbps
(z10)
1 / 2 Gbps 2 / 4 Gbps
LC-Duplex LC-Duplex
Single Mode Single Mode
Multi Mode Multi Mode
G5/G6
Native FICON
N/A
1 Gbps
SC-Duplex
Single Mode
Multi Mode