Hitachi 9960, 9900 Series manual Table of Figures

Table of Figures
Figure 1	The 9960 provides for exploding growth and data consolidation while the 9910
	provides for managed growth and open system exploitation	2
Figure 2	The Hitachi Lightning 9960 Series’ Hi-Star internal switched-fabric architecture	3
Figure 3	System block diagram of the 7700E’s shared bus architecture	4
Figure 4	A 9960 Control Frame and its major components	7
Figure 5	A 9960 Array Frame with its major components	8
Figure 6	A power supply module of a Lightning 9900 Series system	9
Figure 7	A 9910 single-cabinet storage subsystem	10
Figure 8	Fibre Channel and ESCON or FICON adapter boards connect to open systems and
	mainframe computers	11
Figure 9	A Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components	12
Figure 10	An ESCON host adaper board and its major hardware components	13
Figure 11	A 9960 system connected to Mainframes and Open Systems hosts	14
Figure 12	The Cache Hierarchical Star Network (C-HSN) provides fully redundant switched
	access to cache from all channel adapters	15
Figure 13	The CSW and CARBs provide non-blocking channel access to all cache	16
Figure 14	A shared-bus architecture is limited to two simultaneous I/O operations	17
Figure 15	The Lightning 9900 Series Hi-Star architecture allows for 16 parallel I/Os to cache
	through four interconnecting cache switches	17
Figure 16	Separate redundant control memory handles the exchange of control information between
	processors and cache memory about the status, location, and configuration of data	19
Figure 17	Functional diagram of a Lightning 9900 Series ACP pair	21
Figure 18	Functional diagram of an Array Group with FC-AL disks	22
Figure 19	Diagram of four ACP pairs and 32 FC-AL back-end disks	22
Figure 20	The Lightning 9900 Series Systems are available with RAID-1+ and RAID-5 arrays	24
Figure 21	The Lightning 9900 offers a far more complete range of availability protection than
	competitive products	26
Figure 22	Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager automatically provides path failover and load balancing
	for open systems	28
Figure 23	Test results show the advantages of the 9960 HiStar architecture when compared to a
	shared bus architecture	31
Figure 24	Hitachi Data Systems offers a broad range of remote copy, data duplication, and data
	migration software solutions	34
Figure 25	HiCommand allows management of virtually all Hitachi hardware and software from
	the customer’s platform of choice	38
Figure 26	The GUI interface on Hitachi Graph-Track simplifies performance management	41

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