IBM DS8870 Architecture and Implementation (Release 7.5)

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Designed for performance

This chapter describes the performance characteristics of the IBM DS8870 with regards to physical and logical configuration. The considerations that are presented in this chapter can help you plan the physical and logical setup of the DS8870.

This chapter covers the following topics:

•DS8870 hardware: Performance characteristics

– Vertical growth and scalability

– POWER7 and POWER7+

– The High-Performance Flash Enclosure

– DS8870 Switched Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops

– Fibre Channel device adapter

– 16 Gbps Fibre ...

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