Hitachi 9960, 9900 Series manual Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Table of Contents	iii
Table of Figures	vii
Table of Tables	viii
Chapter 1 – Introduction ________________________________________________________________1
The Only Switched-Fabric Storage Architecture in the World	1
Lightning 9900 Series Product Offerings	1
An Overview of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series Architecture	2
Comparison to the Shared Bus Architecture of the Hitachi Freedom Storage 7700E	4
The Lightning 9900 has an advanced availability profile compared to competitive products	4
Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems	5
Chapter 2 – The Lightning 9900 Series Packaging____________________________________________7
Model 9960 Packaging	7
Model 9960 Control Frame	7
Model 9960 Array Frames	8
Model 9910 Packaging	9
The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 Series	10
Chapter 3 – Front-end Design of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series ____________________________11
CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON Host Connectivity and Scalability	11
About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards	12
Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces	14
Number of Host Interfaces Supported	14
Types of Hosts Supported by Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the Lightning 9900 Series	14
Chapter 4 – Hi-Star Architecture – An Internal Switched Hierarchial Star Network ______________15
The Internal Hi-Star Architecture	15
The Cache Hierarchical Star Network	15
The Cache Switch Provides Non-blocking Switched Access to Cache	16
The Path Bandwidth Between the CSW and CHIPs or ACPs is 6.4GB/sec	16
The Path Bandwidth Between the CSW and the Cache Adapter (CAs) is 3.2GB/sec	16
Advantages of a Switched Architecture Compared to a Shared Bus Architecture	16
The 9960 Provides 32 GB of Fully Addressable Cache	18

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