Hitachi 9900 User Manual
Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces
The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900 V Series is shown in
Table 2.
Supported Interface
Bandwidth
Fibre Channel Adapters
100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
ESCON
®
Adapters
17.5MB/sec
FICON
™
Adapters
100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
Number of Host Interfaces Supported
Up to 64 Fibre Channel, 48 ESCON, or 32 FICON ports are available on the
Lightning 9980V
™
system and up to 24 on the Lightning 9970V
™
system. Only 2 ACP
pairs are sequenced on the Lightning 9980V system for 48 ESCON ports.
Types of Hosts Supported with Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the
Lightning 9900 V Series Systems
Lightning 9900 V Series Systems
The Lightning 9900 V Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe
hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900 V Series supports direct Fibre
Channel host attachment to all major open systems and mainframe platforms as listed
below:
Channel host attachment to all major open systems and mainframe platforms as listed
below:
•
Microsoft
®
Windows NT
®
•
Microsoft Windows
®
2000
•
HP-UX
®
•
Solaris
™
(Sun
™
)
•
AIX
®
32 and 64 bit (IBM
®
)
•
NetWare
®
(Novell
®
)
•
Linux
®
(United Linux
®
, Red Hat
®
, SuSE
®
, Turbolinux
®
)
•
IRIX
®
(SGI
™
)
•
Tru64
™
UNIX
®
(HP
®
)
•
OpenVMS
™
(HP
®
)
•
DYNIX/ptx
®
(IBM
®
)
•
Mainframes (MVS
®
, VSE
®
, VM
®
, OS/390
®
, zOS
®
,
,
Linux
®
)
Figure 15 – The
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems support both
mainframe and open
system hosts.
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems support both
mainframe and open
system hosts.
Table 2 – Bandwidth of
supported interfaces of
the Lightning 9900 V
Series.
supported interfaces of
the Lightning 9900 V
Series.
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