- How many devices can be supported?
A:
4096 virtual tape device paths are supported derived from:
Up to 256 devices per cont...
- Are multiple interfaces supported?
A: Yes, multipath is supported where multiple FICON interfaces can access the same virtual devices.
- What storage interfaces are supported?
A: Any device that can be seen by the native Sun Solaris
system. Storage devices can be SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre-Channel, and NFS.
- Are multiple LPARS supported?
A: Yes, as you can see above, a rather large number of LPARS
can be supported.
- What Mainframe Operating Systems are supported?
A: Virtually all versions of MVS and Z/OS are supported as
well as VSE and VM.
- Is 3590 Emulation Supported?
A: Yes. The Channel Gateway appears to the mainframe as a native 3590 interface with the same commands and capacities. Your applications will not require any modification.
- How many virtual tapes can be supported?
A: Channel Gateway imposes no limits on the number of tapes for disk-based
storage applications. The limit is defined by the file system or storage device.
- How many ESCON and/or FICON channels are supported in each control unit?
A: If enough bus
slots are available, up to 8 ESCON channels or 4 FICON can be supported per Channel
Gateway.
- Are physical tape libraries and drives supported?
A: Yes. Any SCSI,
iSCSI or FC attached tape device is supported including those from
Oracle/Sun/StorageTek, IBM, Quantum and
other manufacturers.
- Are virtual tape libraries supported?
...Tape
products available from companies such as Copan,
Sepaton, FalconStor and FalconStor OEMs are supported.
- Is the Centera product from EMC supported?
A: Yes
- What filesystem formats can be used?
... filesystems
such as ZFS, UFS, NFS, QFS, and
the Veritas filesystem VFS. Any
filesystem that is supported by Solaris is usable by the Channel Gateway.
- Does the Channel Gateway have failover capability?
...ne server becomes
inoperative, the other servers can still provide access to the data, though the
devices associated with the failed server will become boxed. Additionally, the
Channel Gateway serv...
- How is the server and storage status monitored from the mainframe?
...ding endless capabilities. This is
all performed through the tape interface to the Channel Gateway devices.
- Is virtual tape a good fit for OAM applications?
...t effective and massively scalable storage solutions are
available to replace the EOL’d 3995 devices
- What's the recovery process at the DR location?
...on
solution (such as those available from Data Domain) the recovery process is to
simply vary the devices online! The
volsers will be there waiting to be accessed.
With VTLs and remote replicati...
- Is special equipment required to replicate a backup from one location to another?
A: No!
Remote replication using product from Data Domain, Sepaton, Copan, FalconStor and Sun is supported via standard
LAN and WAN networks. Expensive channel extension products are NOT required and...
- 8G Long-Wave FICON support
...rsion, transceivers will be sent to you at no charge. The transceiver change will require that the devices be offline.
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