Benutzerhandbuch für Hitachi 9900 Series

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Chapter 1 – Introduction

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• The Only Switched-Fabric Storage Architecture in the World

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• Lightning 9900 Series Product Offerings

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• An Overview of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series Architecture

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• provides for managed growth and open system exploitation.

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• Comparison of the Lightning 9900 series models.

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• The Hitachi Lightning 9960 Series’ Hi-Star internal switched-fabric architecture

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• Comparison to the Shared Bus Architecture of the Hitachi Freedom Storage 7700E

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• The Lightning 9900 has an advanced availability profile compared to competitive products

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• System block diagram of the 7700E’s shared bus architecture.

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• Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems

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• Chapter 2 – The Lightning 9900 Series Packaging

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• Model 9960 Packaging

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• Model 9960 Control Frame

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• A 9960 Control Frame and its major components.

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• Model 9960 Array Frames

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• A 9960 Array Frame with its major components

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• Model 9910 Packaging

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• A power supply module of a Lightning 9900 Series system

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• The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 Series

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• A 9910 single-cabinet storage subsystem.

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• Chapter 3 – Front-end Design of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series

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• CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON Host Connectivity and Scalability

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• mainframe computers.

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• About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards

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• A Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components

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• An ESCON host adaper board and its major hardware components

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• Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

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• Number of Host Interfaces Supported

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• Types of Hosts Supported by Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the Lightning 9900 Series

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• A 9960 system connected to Mainframes and Open Systems hosts

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• Bandwidth of supported interfaces of the Lightning 9900 Series.

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• Chapter 4 – Hi-Star Architecture – An Internal Switched Hierarchial Star Network

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• The Internal Hi-Star Architecture

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• The Cache Hierarchical Star Network

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• access to cache from all channel adapters.

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• The Cache Switch Provides Non-blocking Switched Access to Cache

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• The Path Bandwidth Between the CSW and CHIPs or ACPs is 6.4GB/sec

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• The Path Bandwidth Between the CSW and the Cache Adapter (CAs) is 3.2GB/sec

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• Advantages of a Switched Architecture Compared to a Shared Bus Architecture

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• The CSW and CARBs provide non-blocking channel access to all cache

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• A shared-bus architecture is limited to two simultaneous I/O operations.

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• through four interconnecting cache switches

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• The 9960 Provides 32 GB of Fully Addressable Cache

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• Advanced Cache Algorithms of the Lightning 9900 Series

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• Hitachi FlashAccess Allows Datasets to be Permanently Placed in Cache

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• Read-ahead for High-performance Sequential Reads

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• The Control Memory Hierarchical Star Network

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• processors and cache memory about the status, location, and configuration of data.

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• Chapter 5 – High Performance Back-end Design

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• High-Performance Back-end Design

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• New Fibre Channel Disk Drives

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• Functional diagram of a Lightning 9900 Series ACP pair.

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• Maximum Configuration of ACPs and Disks

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• The Importance of Command Tag Queuing (CTQ)

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• Functional diagram of an Array Group with FC-AL disks.

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• Diagram of four ACP pairs and 32 FC-AL back-end disks.

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• Chapter 6 – Capacities and RAID Architecture

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• Storage Capacity of the Lightning 9900 Series

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• Advantages of the Lightning 9900 Series RAID Hardware

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• RAID-1+

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• RAID-5 Distributed Parity

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• RAID Rebuild Capability

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• System Capacities and Number of disk drives for various configurations.

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• High-density Disk Drive Assemblies (HDDs)

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• The Lightning 9900 Series Systems are available with RAID-1+ and RAID-5 arrays.

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• Chapter 7 – Hitachi High-Availability Software Improves Application Service Levels

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• An Overview of High Availability (HA) Computing Software

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• Software products contribute to High-Availability Computing

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• The Lightning 9900 has an Advanced Availability Profile compared to Competitive Products

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• Open Systems High-Availability Middleware Support

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• competitive products.

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• 1 - Alternate Pathing middleware switches the I/O load in the event of path failure

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• 2 - Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager provides path failover and load balancing

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• 3 - Host Failover

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• 4 - Parallel Database Clustering

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• Standard Hot-swap and Redundant Power Supplies

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• for open systems.

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• Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling

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• Unmatched Competitive Advantage in RAID Choices

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• Chapter 8 – Performance Considerations

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• Truly Scalable Performance

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• The Advantages of the Lightning 9900 Series Hi-Star Architecture Over a Shared Bus Architecture

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• shared bus architecture.

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• Internal Switching Overcomes the Limitations of Shared Bus Architectures

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• Test Results

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• Chapter 9 – The Lightning 9900 Series Software Solutions Are the Best in the World

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• they serve.

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• (BCP) software and services

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• migration software solutions.

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• Remote Copy, Data Duplication, Data Migration Defined

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• Remote Copy

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• PiT Copy

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• Data Migration

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• Business Goals Served by Hitachi Copy Software

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• Hitachi copy products provide Remote Copy, Data Duplication and Data Migration.

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• Chapter 10 – Centralized and Open Systems Management Software Simplifies IT Operations

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• A powerful and open systems management philosophy

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• vendor of choice

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• the customer’s platform of choice.

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• The components of HiCommand

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• Overview of how the Systems Management Software supports business objectives

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• Hitachi Resource Manager 9000

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• Service Level Management

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• Deployment Management

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• Compliance Management

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• SNMP support ensures compliance with all major systems management platforms

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• Hitachi Graph-Track takes the guess-work out of performance management

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• Hitachi LUN Manager simplifies configuration management and reduces staffing costs

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• The GUI interface on Hitachi Graph-Track simplifies performance management.

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• configuration

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• Hitachi FlashAccess allows data to be “locked and unlocked” in cache on-the-fly

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• Hitachi CruiseControl

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• Storage Maximizer

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• Hitachi SANtinel

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• Transaction Processing Facility/Multi-Path Lock Facility (TPF/MPLF)

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• Chapter 11 – Professional Services and Support

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• Hitachi Data Systems is consistently ranked Number One in the Industry

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• Professional Services Overview

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• Cost of Risk Analysis methodology (CORA)

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• Data Protection Services

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• Data Protection Services Lab

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• Remote Copy Assessment and Implementation Service

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• Hitachi NanoCopy Implementation Service

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• Continuous Availability Service

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• On-line Data Migration Service

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• SAN Services

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• Hitachi Data Systems Interoperability Laboratory Service

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• Enterprise storage and availability management services

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• Software Portfolio Review and Analysis Service

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• Appendix A – System Configurations for the Performance Experiment

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• Glossary of Terms

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