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

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Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

Hitachi Data Systems

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

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

Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900Series 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 9900Series

The Lightning 9900Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900Series 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)

Tru64UNIX® (Compaq®)

OpenVMS(Compaq®)

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