Barry, z/OS does not support iSCSI. Your system need to support iSCSI IO first.
It may be possible to use iSCSI with a software iSCSI driver from Linux on z/VM. Check with better minds than mine. iSCSI may be easier than FCP to deploy in LAN environments with low IO demands, and very good for remote storage Medical Image Systems are one application I know using iSCSI to allow all hospitals in one country to share data from a central rack of storage. I've also worked with Bank that planned to use iSCSI to provision dedicated PC drives for their dealers to improve RAS - rack & stack RAID5 vs internal disk drive. High IO demands usually need good Capacity Planning or a dedicated network, as it is easy to saturate your core network. Performance wise iSCSI will never compete with FCP until the TOE or LAN cards provide ubiquitous support for 10GbE. A good alternative for iSCSI is an iFCP Router Network where compression can compensate for the step-down from 4Gb FCP to GbE or 100BaseT Ethernet. z/VM could use this with FCP support on FBA devices. Ron > > And lastly, does Z/os even support iSCSI? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
