Ang: Control unit port load balancing in TS3500

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Hi I'm not sure what you are trying to describe, but the TS3500 has control paths to the library through one or more drives. Each drive has a 4Gbs FC connection. Only 1 session from any host can use each drive at a time. I'm assuming that when u say 4 ports, you mean that you have 4 FC

Re: Ang: Control unit port load balancing in TS3500

2011-03-19 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Maybe this is more clear-cut: How can ten z/OS systems connect to a TS3500 library that has ten TS1130 drives and one 3592-C06 control unit? How is the MPIO mechanism? P.S: 3592-C06 control unit has only four 4Gbps FICON ports for z/OS hosts path failover feature is available in the library.