148IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
5.4 Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a 100 MBps or 200 MBps, full-duplex, serial communications technology to
interconnect I/O devices and host systems that are separated by tens of kilometers. The
DS6000 supports 100 MBps and 200 MBps connections; negotiating automatically to
determine whether it is best to run at 100 MBps (1 Gbps link) or 200-MBps (2 Gbps link). This
means that you can connect the DS6000 to a 1 Gbps link or a 2 Gbps link and the DS6000
will detect and operate at the higher link speed.
5.4.1 Supported Fibre Channel attached hosts
An overview of open systems supported ...
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