Centralized and Open Systems Management Software Simplifies IT Operations
Storage Maximizer
The Hitachi Storage Maximizer™ is a solution that uses two software products – Hitachi CruiseControl™ and Hitachi FlashAccess™ software for mainframes and open systems. This allows customers to manage the cost of storage, as data is consolidated onto fewer better-managed systems. Storage administrators can “fill it up and max it out,” confident that they can meet performance requirements all the way to 88+ TB raw capacity on a Lightning 9900™ using 180 GB drives. Hitachi CruiseControl™ then takes over and eliminates “hot spots,” thereby automating performance to service level objectives, while Hitachi FlashAccess™ locks data into cache, guaranteeing data access at memory, not disk, speed.
With the massive consolidation made possible by Lightning 9900™ Series capabilities, customers will be able to lower not only the original purchase costs, but also get additional savings from lower storage management costs, lower software and maintenance costs, and reduced real estate and environmental costs. This is often the major payback for Lightning 9900™ Series products. Reduced per-megabyte administration costs, by itself, can provide a substantial return on investment.
Hitachi SANtinel™
The Hitachi SANtinel™ controls host access to Lightning 9900™ Series LUNs in open systems and LVIs in S/390 systems for SAN environments. This enables users to restrict server access to LUNs in pre-defined “zones” in order to protect data from unauthorized access.
Transaction Processing Facility/Multi-Path Lock Facility (TPF/MPLF)
The Lightning 9900™ supports the Multi-Path Lock Facility (MPLF) for IBM® highest performance transaction processing software environment - the Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). TPF is used by many of the world’s largest Customer Reservation Systems and by the world’s largest financial institutions. In either native TPF mode or under VM, MPLF provides extremely high performance record-level locking, which enables high levels of concurrent data access across multiple channel paths. RAID-1+, RAID-5, 3390-3, and 3390-9 LVIs are supported.
