Hitachi 9900 User Manual
Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage
An important key to lower TCO is the Lightning 9900 V Series “virtual” Fibre
Channel ports. Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in today’s heterogeneous
storage environment, which is made up of these storage architectures: direct attached
storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), and network attached storage (NAS), as
shown in Figure 5. This increases the need to centralize and efficiently manage all
heterogeneous storage with uniform enterprise policies and procedures.
storage environment, which is made up of these storage architectures: direct attached
storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), and network attached storage (NAS), as
shown in Figure 5. This increases the need to centralize and efficiently manage all
heterogeneous storage with uniform enterprise policies and procedures.
Figure 5 – Today’s
heterogeneous IT
environment demands
virtualization of storage.
heterogeneous IT
environment demands
virtualization of storage.
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Figure 4 – Actual
average deployed
capacity of the
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems exceeds that of
shared-bus systems by a
factor of 2.5x.
average deployed
capacity of the
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems exceeds that of
shared-bus systems by a
factor of 2.5x.