Ficon/Zhpf Logical Specifications; Ficon/Zhpf Operating Environment - HP XP P9500 Operation Manual
Hp storageworks p9000 mainframe host attachment and operations guide: p9500 disk array (av400-96332, january 2011)
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Table 4 FICON/zHPF physical specifications (continued)
Cable
Distance
Long wave
Short wave
Connector
Topologies
Figure 1 Fiber connectors
FICON/zHPF logical specifications
The following table compares the logical specifications of FICON/zHPF and ESCON.
Table 5 FICON/zHPF logical specifications
CCW handling
Number of concurrent I/Os
Addressing
Data transfer
Connectivity improvements in FICON/zHPF:
The interlock between the host and RAID is lowered in terms of the protocol.
Throughput is increased using multiple I/O process and bi-directional data transfer.
Increases in the number of the connectable devices per channel.
FICON/zHPF operating environment
The following table lists the operating environment required for FICON/zHPF. For more information
about FICON/zHPF operating environments, including supported hosts and operating environments,
see the IBM Redbooks.
10
FICON/zHPF host attachment
Item
Item
FICON/zHPF
Single Mode/9um
Multi Mode/50 or 62.5um
Single Mode/9um
10 km, 20 km (with RPQ)
Multi Mode/ 62.5um
300m (1Gbps) / 150m (2Gbps) / 75m (4Gbps)
Multi Mode/ 50um
500m (1Gbps) / 300m (2Gbps) / 150m (4Gbps)
LC-duplex (see
Figure 1 (page
Point-to-Point
Switched Point-to-Point
FICON/zHPF
Pipelining
Protocol interlock is reduced.
Multiple I/Os execute concurrently per one channel
16,384 devices per channel
Full-duplex
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