Hitachi 9960, 9900 Series specification

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Front-end Design of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series

There are four ports for each interface board or a total of 32 host interfaces for a fully configured system. An ESCON interface board is shown in Figure 10. A FICON interface board has a similar appearance.

A Lightning 9900™ Series system can connect to mainframes and open systems hosts, thereby consolidating the storage for an enterprise under one roof for consistent performance, availability, and ease of management. This is shown in Figure 12.

Figure 10 – An ESCON® host adapter board and its major hardware components.

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Hitachi 9960, 9900 Series manual

Contents

Page Page Hitachi Data Systems Table of Contents Hitachi Data Systems Read-aheadfor High-performanceSequential Reads Remote Copy Hitachi NanoCopy Implementation Service Hitachi Data Systems Table of Figures Tables Hitachi Data Systems The most advanced design in storage IntroductionLightning 9900 Series Product Offerings The most powerful storage system in the world Hitachi Data Systems Introduction Hitachi Data Systems Mirrored cache instead of single image cache.1 Introduction Hitachi Data Systems Model 9960 Packaging The Lightning 9900 SeriesPackaging Model 9960 Control Frame Hitachi Data Systems Model 9960 Array Frames The Lightning 9900 Series Packaging Model 9910 Packaging Hitachi Data Systems Figure 7 – A 9910 single-cabinetstorage subsystem Hitachi Lightning Front-endDesign of theSeries Hitachi Data Systems About the Fibre Channel Interface BoardsPage Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces Hitachi Data SystemsNumber of Host Interfaces Supported Hierarchical Star Network Internal SwitchedHi-StarArchitecture – An The Internal Hi-StarArchitecture Hitachi Data Systems ArchitecturePage Read-aheadfor High-performanceSequential Reads Hitachi Data SystemsThe 9960 Provides 32GB of Fully Addressable Cache Control Memory Hierarchical Star NetworkPage Hitachi Data Systems High-speed Back-endDesign High Performance Back-endDesignNew Fibre Channel Disk Drives The Importance of Command Tag Queuing CTQ Command Tag Queuing greatly improves performanceMaximum Configuration of ACPs and Disks Hitachi Data Systems RAID-1+ Capacities and RAID ArchitectureStorage Capacity of the Lightning 9900 Series RAID-5- Distributed Parity Hitachi Data Systems High-densityDisk Drive Assemblies HDDs Application Service Levels Hitachi High-Availability Software Improves Hitachi Data Systems Open Systems High-AvailabilityMiddleware Support 3.Host Failover Hitachi Data Systems Standard Hot-swapand Redundant Power Supplies4.Parallel Database Clustering Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling Unmatched Competitive Advantage in RAID Choices Hitachi Data Systems Performance Considerations Truly Scalable Performance Hitachi Data Systems Test Results Software Solutions for the Software Solutions Are theBest in the World The Lightning 9900 Series Figure 24 – Hitachi Data Systems offers a broad range of remote copy, data duplication, and data migration software solutions Hitachi Data Systems PiT Copy Remote CopyData Migration and warehousing Hitachi Data Systems Software Simplifies IT Operations Centralized and OpenSystems Management A powerful and open systems management philosophy 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 Hitachi Data Systems The components of HiCommand Hitachi Resource Manager Service Level ManagementHitachi Data Systems 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 Data Systems Hitachi CruiseControl Storage Maximizer Hitachi SANtinel Hitachi Data Systems Data Protection Services Professional Services and SupportProfessional Services Overview Cost of Risk Analysis methodology CORA Hitachi NanoCopy Implementation Service Data Protection Services LabRemote Copy Assessment and Implementation Service Hitachi Data Systems On-lineData Migration Service Professional Services and SupportContinuous Availability Service SAN services Software Portfolio Review and Analysis Service Hitachi Data Systems System Configurations for the Performance Experiment Hitachi Data Systems The 7700E used all 6GB drives 100BaseT Glossary of Terms10BaseT ACP pair Back end Hitachi Data SystemsAvailability Business Continuity Planning BCP Cache GlossaryCARB CHIP Control Frame Hitachi Data SystemsConsistency Groups CORA Cost of Risk Analysis Data Duplication Disaster RecoveryGlossary Data Migration Electronic vaulting Hitachi Data SystemsEBCDIC ESA/390 Fast Ethernet GlossaryFailover Fast write FICON File BackupHitachi Data Systems Front End HDmS Hitachi FlashAccessGlossary Hitachi CruiseControl Hitachi InstantSplit Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/RestoreHitachi Data Systems Hitachi LUN Manager Hitachi Resource Manager Hitachi Rapid RecoveryGlossary Hitachi SANtinel HYPERtape Hitachi Data SystemsHXRC Hitachi Extended Remote Copy Java Lightning 9900 Series Logical VolumeGlossary Logical Unit MIPS Hitachi Data SystemsMBCP Meta-data MTTR GlossaryMTBF NanoCopy Open system Hitachi Data SystemsOn-linesystem Operating System RAID Recovery TimeGlossary RAID Controllers SCSI SwitchHitachi Data Systems Snapshot Glossary Virtual Logical Volume Image ManagerVolume Synchronous Warm site Hitachi Data SystemsWorkload Asia Headquarters Hitachi Data Systems Worldwide OfficesCorporate Headquarters Australia/New Zealand Headquarters