Fiber Quick Connect For Ficon Lx Environments - IBM Z10 EC Reference Manual

System z servers. Now Geographically Dispersed Open
Clusters (GDOC) is designed to address this need for
open systems. GDPS 3.5 will support GDOC for coordi-
nated disaster recovery across System z and non-System
z servers if Veritas Cluster Server is already installed.
GDPS and the Basic HyperSwap (available with z/OS
V1.9) solutions help to ensure system failures are invisible
to employees, partners and customers with dynamic disk-
swapping capabilities that ensure applications and data
are available.
GDPS is a multi-site or single-site end-to-end application
availability solution that provides the capability to manage
remote copy confi guration and storage subsystems
(including IBM TotalStorage), to automate Parallel Sysplex
operation tasks and perform failure recovery from a single
point of control.
GDPS helps automate recovery procedures for planned
and unplanned outages to provide near-continuous avail-
ability and disaster recovery capability.
For additional information on GDPS, visit:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/gdps/.
Fiber Quick Connect for FICON LX
Environments
Fiber Quick Connect (FQC), an optional feature on z10 EC,
is now being offered for all FICON LX (single mode fi ber)
channels, in addition to the current support for ESCON.
FQC is designed to signifi cantly reduce the amount of
time required for on-site installation and setup of fi ber
optic cabling. FQC facilitates adds, moves, and changes
of ESCON and FICON LX fi ber optic cables in the data
center, and may reduce fi ber connection time by up to
80%.
FQC is for factory installation of IBM Facilities Cabling
Services – Fiber Transport System (FTS) fi ber harnesses
for connection to channels in the I/O cage. FTS fi ber har-
nesses enable connection to FTS direct-attach fi ber trunk
cables from IBM Global Technology Services.
Note: FQC supports all of the ESCON channels and all of
the FICON LX channels in all of the I/O cages of the server.
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