Ron Hawkins wrote:
Shai,
Just to get things right, there is no such thing as a 3390 ot 3990
controller. There are Disk arrays that can have CKD volumes connected by
FICON or ESCON, or FBA LUNs connected through Fibre Channel or iSCSI. There
is also a plethora of storage that is FBA Fibre Channel only and there is a
bunch of network attached filers that manage fibre channel storage.
If you want to write to HDS a storage from a PC connected through Fibre
Channel, then all you have to do is mount the LUN on the server and that's
it. There's no API to do Fibre Channel IO.
Ron,
Let me explain: HDS arrays have a feature which allows sharing of the
same device between PC (FBA) and mainframe (CKD). It is named HMDE
(Hitachi Multiplatform Data Exchange). So the same volume (LUN) is seen
as both FBA and CKD. It can be used to move data from PC to host and it
is used by Tantia (formerly Harbor) backup.
I hope you don't mind mentioning product names, I can assure you it is
not advertisement. <vbg>
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