Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces
The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900
™
Series is shown in
Table 2.
Supported Interface Bandwidth
Fibre Channel Adapters 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
ESCON
®
Adapters 17.5MB/sec
FICON Adapters 100MB/sec
Number of Host Interfaces Supported
Up to 32 Fibre Channel, ESCON
®
or FICON ports are available on the 9960 and up
to 24 on the 9910. No card slots are subtracted from anywhere else in the subsystem to
accommodate these ports.
Types of Hosts Supported by Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by
the Lightning 9900
™
Series
The Lightning 9900
™
Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe
hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900
™
Series supports direct Fibre
Channel host attachment to all major open systems platforms as listed below:
•Windows NT 4.0
®
•Windows 2000
®
• HP-UX
®
•Solaris
™
(Sun
™
)
• AIX 32 and 64 bit (IBM
®
)
•NetWare
™
(Novell
®
)
• Linux
®
Red Hat
• IRIX
®
(SGI
™
)
•Tru64
™
UNIX
®
(Compaq
®
)
•OpenVMS
™
(Compaq
®
)
Figure 11 – A 9960
system connected to
Mainframes and Open
Systems hosts.
Table 2 – Bandwidth
of supported interfaces
of the Lightning 9900
™
Series.
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