Hitachi 9900 manual Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Table of Contents	iii
Table of Figures	vii
Table of Tables	viii
Chapter 1 – Introduction ________________________________________________________________1
Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again	1
Lightning 9900 V Series Product Offerings	2
An Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Architecture	3
Limitation of Competitive Shared-bus Architectures	4
The Lightning 9900 V Series Systems Have an Advanced Availability Profile Compared to
Competitive Products	4
Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems	5
Reduced TCO	5
Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage	6
Chapter 2 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series Packaging ________________________9
The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V System Packaging	9
Lightning 9980V System Control Frame	9
Lightning 9980V System Array Frames	10
Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9970V System Packaging	11
The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 V Series	12
Chapter 3 – Front-end Design of the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series ____________13
CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON or FICON Host Connectivity and Scalability	13
About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards	14
Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces	16
Number of Host Interfaces Supported	16
Types of Hosts Supported with Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the
Lightning 9900 V Series Systems	16
Chapter 4 – Hi-Star Architecture – An Internal Switched Hierarchical Star Network ______________17
The Internal Hi-Star Architecture	17
The Cache Hierarchical Star Network	17
The Cache Switch Provides Non-blocking Switched Access to Cache	18
The Lightning 9980V System Provides 64GB of Fully Addressable Cache	18

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