Hitachi 9900 manual Table of Figures, C-HSN of a Lightning 9970V system provides fully redundant

Table of Figures
Figure 1	The Lightning 9980V system provides for exploding growth and data hyper-consolidation
	while the Lightning 9970V system provides for managed growth
	and open systems exploitation. ............................................................................................2
Figure 2	The Lightning 9900 V Series is based on an internal switched architecture			3
Figure 3	A shared-bus architecture is limited to two simultaneous I/O operations			4
Figure 4	Actual average deployed capacity of the Lightning 9900 V Series systems exceeds that
	of shared-bus systems by a factor of 2.5x. ............................................................................6
Figure 5	Today’s heterogeneous IT environment demands virtualization of storage. ..........................6
Figure 6	Heterogeneous solutions today			7
Figure 7	The Lightning 9900 V Series virtual Fibre Channel ports and Host Storage Domains. ......8
Figure 8	A Lightning 9980V system Control Frame and its major components.	..............................9
Figure 9	A Lightning 9980V system Array Frame with its major components			10
Figure 10	Power supply modules for the Lightning 9900 V Series systems. ......................................11
Figure 11	A Lightning 9970V system single-cabinet storage system			12
Figure 12	Fibre Channel and ESCON or FICON adapter boards connect to open systems
	and mainframe computers. ................................................................................................13
Figure 13	A 2Gbit/sec Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components. ........14
Figure 14	An ESCON host adapter board and its major hardware components.	..............................15
Figure 15	The Lightning 9900 V Series systems support both mainframe and open system hosts			16
Figure 16	The C-HSN of a Lightning 9970V system provides fully redundant
	switched access to cache from all channel adapters			17
Figure 17	Separate redundant control memory handles the exchange of control information, such as
	status, location, and configuration of data, between processors and cache memory. ....................19
Figure 18	Functional diagram of an Array Group with FC-AL disks			21
Figure 19	Diagram of four ACP pairs and 32 FC-AL back-end disks for the Lightning 9980V system.			21
Figure 20	The Lightning 9900 V Series systems are available with RAID-1+ and RAID-5 arrays. ....24
Figure 21	The Lightning 9900 V Series offers a far more complete range of availability
	protection than competitive products			26
Figure 22	Dynamic Link Manager software automatically provides path failover and load
	balancing for open systems			28
Figure 23	Test results show that the advantages of the Lightning 9980V system maintain user
	response time while workloads dramatically increase. ........................................................32
Figure 24	Hitachi Data Systems offers a broad range of remote copy, data duplication, and
	data migration software solutions which are profiled in the Hitach Freedom Storage
	Software Solutions Guide			35
Figure 25	HiCommand Device Manager software and Tuning Manager software allows management
	of virtually all Hitachi Freedom Storage hardware and software from the customer’s
	platform of choice. ............................................................................................................40
Figure 26	The HiCommand Management Framework is based on the CIM and
	SOAP industry standard. ..................................................................................................42
Figure 27	Host Storage Domains reduce costs through fewer physical connections. ..........................45
Figure 28	SANtinel software uses pre-defined zones to protect data from unauthorized access.		........46
Figure 29	The GUI interface on Graph-Track software simplifies performance management.		..........48

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