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Physical Planning Considerations 5 • Connectivity to an IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server (Generation 5 or Generation 6), with one or more FICON channel adapter cards installed, using System Automation for Operating System/390 (SA OS/390) for native FICON, Version 1.3 or later, plus service listed in the appropriate preventive service planning (PSP) bucket. The PSP bucket upgrade is HKYSA30. The minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch without the control unit port (CUP) feature is Version 2.6, plus service listed in PSP bucket upgrade 2032, device subset 2032OS390G5+. The minimum OS/390 level for a director or switch with the CUP feature is Version 2.1, plus service listed in the preceding PSP bucket for that function. • Connectivity to an IBM eServer zSeries 800 (z800), zSeries 900 (z900), or zSeries 990 (z990) processor, with one or more FICON or FICON Express channel adapter cards installed, using the z/OS operating system, Version 1.1 or later. • A host-attached Hardware Management Console. The console runs the Hardware Management Console application (HWMCA) and is the operations and management PC platform for S/390 or zSeries servers. Flexport Technology Sphereon 3232, 4300, and 4500 Fabric Switches can be purchased at a discount without all Fibre Channel ports enabled. The Flexport Technology feature is a hardware port expansion kit that allows customers to upgrade switch capacity on demand in eight-port increments. Flexport Technology kits are available to upgrade the: • Sphereon 3232 Fabric Switch from 16 to 24 ports or from 24 to 32 ports. • Sphereon 4300 Fabric Switch from four to eight ports or from eight to 12 ports. • Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch from eight to 16 ports or from 16 to 24 ports. Each port expansion kit includes four or eight SFP optical transceivers, upgrade instructions, and a feature key that enables the added port capacity through the Element Manager application. 5-36 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual