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by U. Helmich, M. Becht, M. J. Becht, J. R. Easton, R. K. Errickson, T. Gehrmann, S. G. Glassen, S. R. Greenspan, F. Koeble, H. Lehmann, C. Mayer, J. S. Nikfarjam, F. A. Schumacher, W. Storz
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The outstanding reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) characteristics of IBM mainframe computers are among the features that gained the IBM eServer™ family its reputation as a leading platform for business-critical applications. The aim now is to further improve IBM System z9® RAS by introducing redundant I/O interconnect (RII) as a building block of enhanced book availability and recovery scenarios. RII provides a means of maintaining I/O connectivity during planned or unplanned outages in a way that is transparent to the operating system and customer applications. The mechanism that meets this requirement is the provision of an alternate path to the I/O cage, which provides high-bandwidth I/O slots to enable a higher number of I/O ports per card. This paper discusses the I/O subsystem hardware and firmware aspects of RII. |
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| Related Subjects: Channel subsystem architecture; IBM System z9; Packaging; Reliability |
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