Hitachi 9900 User Manual

information and performance levels. The Hi-Track "call home" predictive maintenance
system is based on intelligent software that monitors a Lightning 9900 V Series system and
notifies the Hitachi Data Systems support center for preventative maintenance. Dynamic
Link Manager software solution increases information availability by ensuring complete
utilization of all paths between a server and a Lightning 9900 V Series system. HXRC

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allows users to create and share server-based remote copies between Lightning 9900 V
Series systems and an IBM Enterprise Storage Server

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system. Hitachi Data Systems has

demonstrated proven TrueCopy software support for GDPS, an IBM service offering for
systems failover, workload balancing, and data mirroring. In addition, Hitachi Data Systems
offers a number of services to help users plan, integrate, and deploy a GDPS environment
based on Lightning 9900 V Series systems. The SplitSecond Solutions package provides a
communications layer to seamlessly integrate a customer application with ShadowImage
software and TrueCopy software to ensure that essential information can survive a rolling
disaster with full integrity. But what good is the world’s best software without first-rate
consulting services to go with it? Data Protection Services are offered by the Global
Solutions Services team to analyze and implement all software solutions in the Business
Continuity Suite.

Backup/Restore is the largest cost element in storage ownership and the most

important to high-availability computing. In today’s global IT environment, it is no longer
enough to have a backup copy of one’s data.

The Backup and Recovery Suite consists of eight powerful software packages that allow

businesses to perform copy, backup and restore in the shortest possible time and with
minimum disruption to information availability. Hitachi Multiplatform Backup/Restore
software delivers high-performance volume-level backup of open systems data to a S/390
host thereby leveraging mainframe based storage management procedures. The Hitachi
e-Copy software feature enables nondisruptive backups to be made directly from disk to
tape in a SAN environment without incurring server and I/O overhead during actual data
movement. Hitachi Data Systems has teamed up with industry leaders to deliver first-rate
solutions that simplify the copy, backup and recovery processes. Through these strategic
alliances, users can seamlessly and cost-effectively deploy, implement, and optimize backup
tasks. CommVault

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Galaxy

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, Tantia Technologies® HARBOR® Backup, and VERITAS

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provide choices to help safeguard information using a solution that best fits

user requirements.

For today’s enterprise, instant access to mission-critical information is a must. The

Performance Enhancement Suite optimizes performance for business critical online
applications with eight powerful software packages. Hitachi CruiseControl software
automatically monitors, analyzes, and balances the Lightning 9900 V Series system while
offering tuning recommendations for approval in either automatic or assisted mode. This
automated software tool replaces traditional, time-consuming, and sometimes error-prone,
manual load-balancing processes with streamlined procedures for improved performance
efficiency and overall response time. To further maximize system performance, Hitachi
Priority Access software allows users to define host access priority into a Lightning 9900 V
Series system, capitalizing on this series’ port virtualization technology. Combining Priority
Access software with Host Storage Domains allows host pooling at the logical unit level,
optimizing connectivity and reducing networking infrastructure. For Lightning 9900 V

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HXRC is a cross license technology shared by Hitachi Data Systems and IBM.