HP StorageWorks 2/140 FW 08.01.00 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment Plannin - Page 138
FICON Cascading Best Practices, Connect fabric elements
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Planning Considerations for Fibre Channel Topologies 3 - Intrepid 6064 or 6140 Director. - Sphereon 3232 or 4500 Fabric Switch. • E/OSc Version 4.0 (or later) must be installed on all directors or switches. E/OS firmware Version 6.0c (or later) is recommended. All fabric elements must be at the same firmware version level. • The SANtegrity Binding feature key must be installed and enabled on all directors and switches. Enterprise Fabric Mode must also be enabled on all fabric elements. • Enterprise Fabric Connectivity manager (EFCM) Version 6.0 or later must be installed on the product management server. • One or more of the following IBM servers with FICON or FICON Express™ channel adapter cards: - eServer zSeries 800 (z800) processor. - eServer zSeries 900 (z900) processor. - eServer zSeries 990 (z990) processor. NOTE: FICON cascading is not supported for IBM S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers (Generation 5 or Generation 6). • The z/OS Version 1.3 or Version 1.4 operating system (with service as defined in PSP Buckets for device type 2032, 2042, 2064, or 2066) must be installed on the IBM server. • Licensed Internal Code (LIC) driver 3G at microcode level (MCL) J11206 or later must be installed on the IBM server. FICON Cascading Best Practices A successful FICON-cascaded SAN environment requires a set of best practice conventions as follows: 1. Connect fabric elements - Establish one or more ISLs between cascaded directors of fabric switches as follows: a. Ensure fabric elements are defined to the SAN management application. If the elements must be defined, refer to the appropriate switch or director installation manual for instructions. b. Ensure the preferred Domain_ID for each director or switch is unique and does not conflict with the ID of another fabric element. 3-54 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual