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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning

by Cathy Warrick, Craig Gordon, Benoit Granier, Keitaro Imai, Rosemary McCutchen, Brannen Proctor, Jim Sedgwick, Paulus Usong, Mary Ann Vandermark, John Wickes
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
530 pages
18h 34m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 2. Hardware configuration planning 47
2.10.3 FICON attachment
FICON channels started in the IBM 9672 G5 and G6 servers with 1 Gbps. Eventually these
channels were enhanced to FICON Express channels in zSeries 800(z800), zSeries 900
(z900) servers and IBM System z9™ 109, with 2 Gbps.
FICON Express 2 channels are a new
generation of FICON channels that offer improved performance capability over previous
generations of FICON Express and FICON channels. They are supported on the
IBM Eserver zSeries 990 (z990), zSeries 890 (z890) and IBM System z9 109. Figure 2-25
shows the performance enhancement of FICON Express 2.
Figure 2-25 Performance ...
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