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About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards

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About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards

Each Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 9, has four Interface

Processors2 for management of connectivity to the host.

Figure 9 – A Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components.

2The Lightning 9900™ Series uses the Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) Intel® i960 80MHz processor that is especially designed for I/O operations.

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Page Page Hitachi Data Systems Table of Contents Read-aheadfor High-performanceSequential Reads Hitachi Data Systems Remote Copy Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi NanoCopy Implementation Service Table of Figures Hitachi Data Systems Tables Introduction The most advanced design in storageLightning 9900 Series Product Offerings Hitachi Data Systems The most powerful storage system in the world Introduction Mirrored cache instead of single image cache.1 Hitachi Data Systems Introduction Hitachi Data Systems Packaging The Lightning 9900 SeriesModel 9960 Packaging Model 9960 Control Frame Model 9960 Array Frames Hitachi Data Systems Model 9910 Packaging The Lightning 9900 Series Packaging Figure 7 – A 9910 single-cabinetstorage subsystem Hitachi Data Systems Front-endDesign of the Hitachi LightningSeries About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards Hitachi Data SystemsPage Hitachi Data Systems Bandwidth of Supported Host InterfacesNumber of Host Interfaces Supported Hi-StarArchitecture – An Internal SwitchedHierarchical Star Network The Internal Hi-StarArchitecture Architecture Hitachi Data SystemsPage The 9960 Provides 32GB of Fully Addressable Cache Hitachi Data SystemsRead-aheadfor High-performanceSequential Reads Control Memory Hierarchical Star NetworkPage Hitachi Data Systems High Performance Back-endDesign High-speed Back-endDesignNew Fibre Channel Disk Drives Maximum Configuration of ACPs and Disks Command Tag Queuing greatly improves performanceThe Importance of Command Tag Queuing CTQ Hitachi Data Systems Storage Capacity of the Lightning 9900 Series Capacities and RAID ArchitectureRAID-1+ RAID-5- Distributed Parity High-densityDisk Drive Assemblies HDDs Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi High-Availability Software Improves Application Service Levels Open Systems High-AvailabilityMiddleware Support Hitachi Data Systems 3.Host Failover Standard Hot-swapand Redundant Power Supplies Hitachi Data Systems4.Parallel Database Clustering Unmatched Competitive Advantage in RAID Choices Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling Hitachi Data Systems Truly Scalable Performance Performance Considerations Test Results Hitachi Data Systems Best in the World Software Solutions Are theSoftware Solutions for the The Lightning 9900 Series Hitachi Data Systems Figure 24 – Hitachi Data Systems offers a broad range of remote copy, data duplication, and data migration software solutions Remote Copy PiT CopyData Migration Hitachi Data Systems and warehousing Systems Management Centralized and OpenSoftware Simplifies IT Operations A powerful and open systems management philosophy Hitachi Data Systems HiCommand is an important Hitachi management tool in that it provides a comprehensive storage management software framework that enables an enterprise to manage all supported Hitachi storage products and many Hitachi software solutions The components of HiCommand Hitachi Data Systems Service Level ManagementHitachi Resource Manager Deployment Management Hitachi LUN Manager is an open systems management utility. With Hitachi LUN Manager, open systems Logical Units LUNs can be defined, configured, and maintained. There is no more waiting for the hardware vendor to come and make configuration changes. Hitachi LUN Manager includes an easy-to-use, GUI-basedinterface that allows the easy definition of paths for LUNs, the reconfiguration of LUN-to-portassignments, or the viewing of the Lightning 9900 remote service information messages. Because the Hitachi LUN Manager can assign multiple paths to a single LUN, support of alternate path failover, path load balancing, and clustered systems is possible. Running on a standard Windows-basedPC connected to the storage subsystems by a dedicated LAN, Hitachi LUN Manager can support up to eight Lightning 9900 systems Hitachi CruiseControl Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi SANtinel Storage Maximizer Hitachi Data Systems Professional Services Overview Professional Services and SupportData Protection Services Cost of Risk Analysis methodology CORA Remote Copy Assessment and Implementation Service Data Protection Services LabHitachi NanoCopy Implementation Service Hitachi Data Systems Continuous Availability Service Professional Services and SupportOn-lineData Migration Service SAN services Hitachi Data Systems Software Portfolio Review and Analysis Service the Performance Experiment System Configurations for The 7700E used all 6GB drives Hitachi Data Systems 10BaseT Glossary of Terms100BaseT ACP pair Availability Hitachi Data SystemsBack end Business Continuity Planning BCP CARB GlossaryCache CHIP Consistency Groups Hitachi Data SystemsControl Frame CORA Cost of Risk Analysis Glossary Disaster RecoveryData Duplication Data Migration EBCDIC Hitachi Data SystemsElectronic vaulting ESA/390 Failover GlossaryFast Ethernet Fast write Hitachi Data Systems File BackupFICON Front End Glossary Hitachi FlashAccessHDmS Hitachi CruiseControl Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/RestoreHitachi InstantSplit Hitachi LUN Manager Glossary Hitachi Rapid RecoveryHitachi Resource Manager Hitachi SANtinel HXRC Hitachi Extended Remote Copy Hitachi Data SystemsHYPERtape Java Glossary Logical VolumeLightning 9900 Series Logical Unit MBCP Hitachi Data SystemsMIPS Meta-data MTBF GlossaryMTTR NanoCopy On-linesystem Hitachi Data SystemsOpen system Operating System Glossary Recovery TimeRAID RAID Controllers Hitachi Data Systems SwitchSCSI Snapshot Volume Virtual Logical Volume Image ManagerGlossary Synchronous Hitachi Data Systems Warm siteWorkload Corporate Headquarters Hitachi Data Systems Worldwide OfficesAsia Headquarters Australia/New Zealand Headquarters