"This book highlights the hardware and software components, functions, typical uses, coexistence, and relative merits of these connectivity features. This connectivity handbook assists readers in understanding the connectivity alternatives that are available when planning and designing their data center infrastructures. The changes to this edition are based on the System z hardware announcement dated July 22, 2010. This book is intended for data center planners, IT professionals, system engineers, technical sales staff, and network planners who are involved in the planning of connectivity solutions for System z servers."--Resource description page.