NonStop NS14000 Planning Guide (H06.10+)

Fibre Channel Port to Fibre Channel Disk Modules
Fibre Channel disk modules (FCDMs) can be connected directly to the Fibre Channel ports on
a VIO enclosure, with these exceptions:
• Only configurations with two VIO enclosures are supported.
• A maximum of eight FCDMs (or up to eight daisy-chained configurations with each
daisy-chain configuration containing 4 FCDMs) can be connected in the Integrity NonStop
NS14000 system.
See “Example Configurations of the VIO Enclosures and Fibre Channel Disk Modules” (page 88).
Fibre Channel Port to Tape Devices
Fibre Channel tape devices can be connected directly to the Fibre Channel port on a VIO enclosure.
With a Fibre Channel tape drive connected to a server, you can use the BACKUP and RESTORE
utilities to save data to and restore data from tape.
VIO Enclosure and Disk Storage Considerations
These considerations apply to an Integrity NonStop NS14000 system:
• Only configurations with two VIO enclosures are supported.
• The group number for the VIO enclosures is 100.
• NonStop S-series I/O enclosures are not supported.
• A maximum of eight FCDMs can be connected in the Integrity NonStop NS14000 system
because only two VIO enclosures are supported.
• Two Ethernet connections, one in each VIO enclosure module, that connect to the maintenance
entity are necessary to enable the OSM Service Connection and OSM Notification Director.
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