Introduction
Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again
Hitachi Data Systems, in presenting the Hitachi Freedom Storage™ Lightning 9900™ V Series internal switched storage architecture with virtual Fibre Channel switches, again redefines the industry standard for “best-of-breed” storage systems. It is the most advanced design available in the world for open systems and mainframe data, and it is now two generations ahead of the competition. The patented Hi-Star™architecture, combined with industry-unique “virtual” Fibre Channel ports, powers the most intelligent, highest performance, enterprise-class storage product in the industry today.
Hitachi Data Systems is committed to enabling its customers to build world-class, profit-oriented solutions on top of the Hitachi TrueNorth™ vision and strategic direction. With its state-of-the-art components, TrueNorth enables customers to optimize the value of information within an extremely agile, easy-to-manage and highly-resilient systems environment. This, in turn, leads to competitive advantage for the enterprise by fostering the close cooperation of employees, owners, and suppliers through integrated, bulletproof information systems. TrueNorth allows the enterprise to simplify, protect, and optimize its information infrastructure, thereby reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensuring a more rapid return on investment (ROI). The TrueNorth vision and strategic direction, along with an associated product road map, anticipates customer needs. The TrueNorth vision views the future storage infrastructure as a synergistic combination of management software and powerful, intelligent storage systems that deliver set-and-forget management, complemented by flexible capacity, performance, and connectivity.
1.Hi-Star, a modern switched storage architecture, was introduced in 2000 and
is the only architecture of its type available among enterprise-class storage systems. It was upgraded in May 2002 to almost twice the internal processing power and bandwidth.
2.The Lightning 9900 V Series leapfrogs competitive products in every category of comparison, including internal hardware architecture, availability, performance, and embedded software solutions.
3.Very high availability is provided by an unusually robust product design. Full environmental monitoring and hot swap capability is also provided.
4.Front-end support options include virtually all major open systems platforms and IBM® S/390®- and zOS™- compatible mainframe computers, which provides unsurpassed functionality.
5.The Lightning 9900 V Series dramatically increases front-end connectivity by making available multiple “virtual” Fibre Channel ports associated with each of 32 physical Fibre Channel front-end ports. This enables truly large-scale data consolidation.
6.The Lightning 9900 V Series offers exceptional performance, with no decline in user response time in tests simulating 7200 OLTP users running in parallel with two decision-support applications performing full table scans at 6.6 million rows per second.
7.Backup windows, operations efficiency, and disaster recovery are optimized using leading Hitachi Data Systems copy, migration, and data duplication software solutions.
8.The many advanced system management functions of the Lightning 9900 V Series can be initiated, managed, and controlled by the powerful HiCommand™ Management Framework.
9.The Lightning 9900 V Series is fully compatible with all major UNIX®, Microsoft®
Windows NT®, Windows® 2000 and S/390 mainframe network and system management tools.
10.Hitachi offers Hi-Track®service, with an optional robust dial-in capability that provides world-class experts to diagnose problems if they occur.
