Hitachi 9900 Series, 9960 manual Hitachi Data Systems, Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

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Figure 11 – A 9960 system connected to Mainframes and Open Systems hosts.

Table 2 – Bandwidth of supported interfaces of the Lightning 9900™ Series.

Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900™ Series is shown in Table 2.

Supported Interface	Bandwidth
Fibre Channel Adapters	100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
ESCON® Adapters	17.5MB/sec
FICON Adapters	100MB/sec

Number of Host Interfaces Supported

Up to 32 Fibre Channel, ESCON® or FICON ports are available on the 9960 and up to 24 on the 9910. No card slots are subtracted from anywhere else in the subsystem to accommodate these ports.

Types of Hosts Supported by Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the Lightning 9900™ Series

The Lightning 9900™ Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900™ Series supports direct Fibre Channel host attachment to all major open systems platforms as listed below:

•Windows NT 4.0®

•Windows 2000®

•HP-UX®

•Solaris™ (Sun™)

•AIX 32 and 64 bit (IBM®)

•NetWare™ (Novell®)

•Linux® Red Hat

•IRIX® (SGI™)

•Tru64™ UNIX® (Compaq®)

•OpenVMS™ (Compaq®)

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