Hitachi 9900 manual

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Front-end Design of the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series

There are four ports for each interface board or a total of 32 host interfaces for a fully configured system. An ESCON interface board is shown in Figure 14. A FICON interface board has a similar appearance. The FICON interface card is available with 1Gbit/sec or 2Gbit/sec transfer rates.

Figure 14 – An ESCON host adapter board and its major hardware components.

A Lightning 9900 V Series system can connect to both mainframe and open system hosts, thereby consolidating the storage for an enterprise under one roof for consistent performance, availability, and ease of management. This is shown in Figure 15.

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Contents Page Page Page Hitachi Data Systems Table of Contents RAID-1+ Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Are Best of Breed Global Solutions Services C-HSN of a Lightning 9970V system provides fully redundant Table of FiguresTables Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again IntroductionLightning 9900 V Series Product Offerings Comparison of Lightning 9900 V Series modelsAn Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Architecture IntroductionLimitation of Competitive Shared-bus Architectures Reduced TCO Second-generation Virtual Switched Storage Heterogeneous solutions today Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V System Packaging Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series PackagingLightning 9980V System Control Frame Lightning 9980V System Array Frames Lightning 9980V system Array Frame with its major componentsHitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9970V System Packaging Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series PackagingSystem Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 V Series Lightning 9970V system single- cabinet storage systemPage About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards Page Number of Host Interfaces Supported Bandwidth of Supported Host InterfacesCache Hierarchical Star Network Internal Hi-StarArchitectureAdvanced Cache Algorithms of the Lightning 9900 V Series Cache Switch Provides Non-blocking Switched Access to CacheRead-ahead for High-performance Sequential Reads Control Memory Hierarchical Star NetworkPage Hitachi Data Systems High-speed All Fibre Channel Back-end Design High-performance Back-end 5 DesignImportance of Command Tag Queuing CTQ Maximum Configuration of ACPs and DisksNew Fibre Channel Disk Drives Advantages of the Lightning 9900 V Series RAID Hardware Capacities and RAID ArchitectureRAID-5 Distributed Parity RAID Rebuild CapabilityHigh-density Disk Drive HDD Assemblies Software Products Contribute to High-availability Computing An Overview of High-availability HA Computing SoftwareOpen Systems High-availability Middleware Support Host Failover Parallel Database Clustering Standard Hot Swap and Redundant Power SuppliesCompetitive Advantage in RAID Choices Standard Redundant Fans for CoolingHitachi Data Systems Truly Scalable Performance Unmatched Performance and ScalabilityHitachi Data Systems Storage Area Management Suite Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions AreOS Support Software Suite Summary of Hitachi Freedom Storage software productsBusiness Continuity Suite Performance Enhancement Suite Backup and Recovery SuiteData Movement Suite Hitachi Data Systems Powerful and Open Systems Management Philosophy HiCommandHitachi Data Systems CIM Benefits to Customers Open, Standards-based ApproachAvoid Being Locked into a Proprietary Management Environment View and Operate Networked Storage as a Holistic ResourceOut-of-band Management Product SupportHost Storage Domains Java AgentHitachi SANtinel Software Hitachi Virtual LUN and LUN Expansion Software Remote Console Storage Navigator Cache Manager Host Agent HiReturn Investment Analysis Tool Kit Phase 2 On-site, One-day AssessmentHitachi Data Systems Global Solutions Services Overview Global Solutions ServicesBasic Implementation Service for InterSAN Pathline Integration Service for Hitachi TrueCopy Software Implementation Service for Hitachi TrueCopy SoftwareImplementation Service for Hitachi ShadowImage Software Integration Service for Hitachi ShadowImage SoftwareFiber Design and Implementation Service Global Solutions ServicesStorage Consolidation Planning and Design Service Infrastructure Planning Service for FiconStorage Consolidation Implementation Service Open Systems Data Migration Planning ServiceACP Glossary of TermsAPI Carb Chip CHAHSN CHTDAS CTQDSS DRRDTA ECCFC-AL FCAFreedom Data Networks File BackupFibre Channel FiconHDD GUIHitachi Multiplatform Backup/Restore Hitachi FlashAccessHitachi Dynamic Link Manager Hitachi Graph-TrackHitachi Rapid Recovery Hitachi Priority AccessHitachi Multiplatform Resource Sharing Hitachi RapidXchangeHSD LAN Lpar LUNLuse LRUMtbf MplfMttr NASNVM NdmpNvram OltpPOD SAN RAIDSLA ScsiSnmp SVPTCP TCOVeritas WWN WANXRC Hitachi Data Systems Worldwide Offices