HP XP P9000 for Compatible Parallel Access Volume User Guide (AV400-96479, August 2012)

2 Requirements and specifications
This chapter contains requirements and specifications.
Requirements
The following table lists the requirements for Parallel Access Volumes and Hyper Parallel Access
Volumes operations.
RequirementsItem
Hyper Parallel Access VolumesParallel Access Volumes
Parallel Access VolumesParallel Access VolumesSoftware License Keys
Hyper Parallel Access VolumesWorkload Manager (WLM)
Workload Manager (WLM)
z/OS 1.8 or laterDynamic modeHost OS
z/OS 1.6 with PTF or later
• OS/390 V2R7 (DFSMS/DSF 1.5) with
PTF or later
z/VM 5.3 or later
• OS/390 V2R7 (DFSMS/DSF 1.5) with
PTF or later
Static mode
• OS/390 V1R3 (DFSMS/DSF 1.3) with
PTF or later
• VM/ESA 2.4.0 or later
60-02-4x or laterN/AMicrocode
60-03-2x or later for z/VM host
I-2107I-2105, I-2107Controller emulation type
3380-3, 3390-3, 3390-9, 3390-L, 3390-M, 3390-ADevice emulation type for base
device
Data Exchange devices listed below are not supported:
3380-3A, 3380-3B, 3380-3C, 3390-3A, 3390-3B, 3390-3C
3390-9A, 3390-9B, 3390-9C, 3390-LA, 3390-LB, 3390-LC
3390-MA, 3390-MB, 3390-MC
FICONChannel interface
One SSID (subsystem ID) for each set of 256 LDEVsStorage system ID setting
255Maximum number of aliases for one
base device
Alias device and its base device must belong to the same logical CU imageAlias device management
Virtual LVICompatible Remote Web Console
functions
Cache Residency Z
Auto LUN
Continuous Access Synchronous Z
Business Copy Z
Continuous Access Journal Z
IBM Concurrent Copy (CC) with restrictions
Compatible XRC with restrictions
PPRC
Thin Provisioning Z
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