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Appendix Hardware features of the SX Series Business Servers

14.1.2 SX server system peripherals

The SX series servers optionally provide full Fibre Channel connectivity for the connection

of peripheral devices. This permits the SX servers to be seamlessly integrated into an intel-

ligent SAN environment.

On a model-specific basis, the SX server for BS2000/OSD also supports an optional

channel interface. This means that existing BS2000 channel peripherals can be used in

parallel to new Fibre Channel peripherals. The entry-level models in the SX series have no

channel interface.

The PCI slots present on each system board and in the PCI/disk boxes form the basic

foundation for the numerous types of connections available for the SX server. The

connection capabilities are determined by the type of controller used in each instance. The

capabilities are only limited by the number of free PCI slots and by the existing configuration

rules (if there are any).

Fibre Channel and bus peripherals

Fibre Channel peripherals are operated under BS2000/OSD by emulating the devices in

X2000 as bus peripherals. The bus peripheral devices are connected via a suitable SCSI

or Fibre Channel controller.

All devices released for the PRIMEPOWER family are available for Solaris partitions.

Information on these devices can be found in the data sheets about the SX server and in

the operating instructions for the model series concerned.

Additional external devices (e.g. archive systems or disk storage systems) are connected

via additional SCSI or Fibre Channel controllers.

The connection of a Fibre Channel switch allows SAN integration. You will find information

about this at:

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/rl/products/storage/fibrechannelswitches.html

In the BS2000 partition the hardware-related administration and operation of the bus

peripheral is performed via the X2000 carrier system. You make the devices of the bus

peripheral known to the X2000 operating system, and therefore also to the BS2000/OSD

operating system, by configuring them in X2000. It is not necessary to generate the bus

peripherals in BS2000/OSD.

In a Solaris partition the SCSI and Fibre Channel peripherals are administered and

operated using the corresponding Solaris functions.

You can find detailed information on configuring devices for BS200/OSD in the chapter

“Global X2000 functions” on page 221.

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