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DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
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DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning

by Gero Schmidt, Bertrand Dufrasne, Jana Jamsek, Peter Kimmel, Hiroaki Matsuno, Flavio Morais, Lindsay Oxenham, Antonio Rainero, Denis Senin
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
726 pages
26h 28m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Figure 2-14 DA performances for 4K random workloads
2.5 Host adapters
The DS8800 supports two types of host adapters (HAs): Fibre Channel/FICON 4-port and
8-port HA cards with a nominal port speed of 8 Gbps. HAs are installed in I/O enclosures.
There is no affinity between the HA and the processor complex. Either processor complex
can access any HA.
2.5.1 Fibre Channel and FICON host adapters
Fibre Channel (FC) is a technology standard that allows data to be transferred from one node
to another node at high speeds and great distances. Using the long-wave fibre port HAs,
connections are possible up to ...
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