StorageWorks Solutions Configuration Guide

This document, the "StorageWorks Solutions Configuration Guide" (April 1994), is intended for personnel responsible for designing and configuring Digital Equipment Corporation's StorageWorks subsystems. It provides comprehensive information on:

• The StorageWorks product line, including shelf building blocks (SBBs), various storage devices (disk drives, optical disks, cartridge and magazine tape drives, CD-ROMs, solid-state disks).
• Shelves, controllers, converters, adapters, and enclosures (cabinets, deskside, and desktop expansion units), along with accessories.
• General configuration rules, covering device addresses, SBB shelves, power supplies, and specific guidelines for HSZ-series and HSJ-series disk array controllers.
• Detailed information on SCSI and DSSI buses, including cable types, connectors, termination, and guidelines for computing bus lengths.
• Compatibility configurations for various Digital systems, such as Alpha AXP, VAX, DECsystem, and Personal Computer systems.

The guide also includes examples for designing StorageWorks subsystems.