
312 DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
8.1 DS8000 host attachment
The DS8000 enterprise storage solution provides various host attachments that allow
exceptional performance and superior data throughput. We suggest a minimum of two
connections to any host, and the connections need to be on different host adapters in
different I/O enclosures. You can consolidate storage capacity and workloads for Open
Systems hosts and IBM System z hosts by using the following adapter types and protocols:
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)-attached Open Systems hosts
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)/Fibre Connection (FICON)-attached System z hosts
The DS8800 4-w ...