Manuels d'utilisation pour Hitachi 9900

Table des matières

• Chapter 1 – Introduction

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• Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again

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• Lightning 9900 V Series Product Offerings

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• An Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Architecture

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• Limitation of Competitive Shared-bus Architectures

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• Competitive Products

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• Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems

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• Reduced TCO

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• Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage

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• Chapter 2 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series Packaging

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• The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V System Packaging

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• Lightning 9980V System Control Frame

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• Lightning 9980V System Array Frames

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• Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9970V System Packaging

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• The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 V Series

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

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

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• About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards

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• Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

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• Number of Host Interfaces Supported

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• Lightning 9900 V Series Systems

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

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• The Internal Hi-Star Architecture

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• The Cache Hierarchical Star Network

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

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• The Lightning 9980V System Provides 64GB of Fully Addressable Cache

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• Advanced Cache Algorithms of the Lightning 9900 V Series

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• Hitachi FlashAccess Software Allows Data Sets to be Permanently Placed in Cache

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• Read-ahead for High-performance Sequential Reads

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• Control Memory Hierarchical Star Network

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• Chapter 5 – High-performance Back-end Design

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• High-speed All Fibre Channel Back-end Design

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• Maximum Configuration of ACPs and Disks

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• New Fibre Channel Disk Drives

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• The Importance of Command Tag Queuing (CTQ)

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• Chapter 6 – Capacities and RAID Architecture

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• Storage Capacity of the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series

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• Advantages of the Lightning 9900 V 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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• High-density Disk Drive (HDD) Assemblies

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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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• Open Systems High-availability Middleware Support

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• Alternate Pathing Middleware Switches the I/O Load in the Event of Path Failure

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• Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Provides Path Failover and Load Balancing

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• Host Failover

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• Parallel Database Clustering

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• Standard Hot Swap and Redundant Power Supplies

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• Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling

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• Competitive Advantage in RAID Choices

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• Chapter 8 – Unmatched Performance and Scalability

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• Truly Scalable Performance

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• Internal Switching Overcomes the Limitations of Shared-bus Architectures

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• There Is NO Match for the Performance of the Lightning 9980V System

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• Chapter 9 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Are Best of Breed

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• and Optimizes Storage Investments

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• Storage Area Management Suite

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• Business Continuity Suite

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• Backup and Recovery Suite

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• Performance Enhancement Suite

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• Data Movement Suite

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• System Management Software

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• A Powerful and Open Systems Management Philosophy

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• Software through the Enterprise’s Vendor of Choice

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• HiCommand Management Framework Provides an Open Framework for Storage Management

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• Open, Standards-based Approach

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• CIM Benefits to Customers

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• Server(s) in a SAN

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• View and Operate Networked Storage as a Holistic Resource

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• Avoid Being "Locked" into a Proprietary Management Environment

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• Overview of How the Systems Management Software Supports Business Objectives

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• Hitachi Resource Manager Provides Powerful Device-level Storage Management Capability

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• Out-of-band Management

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• SNMP Support Ensures Compliance with All Major Systems-management Platforms

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• Java Agent

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• Host Storage Domains

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• Management and Reduces Staffing Costs

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• Hitachi SANtinel Software

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• Hitachi Virtual LUN and LUN Expansion Software

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• Hitachi FlashAccess Software Allows Data to be “Locked and Unlocked” in Cache On-the-fly

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• Remote Console – Storage Navigator

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• Hitachi Graph-Track Software Takes the Guesswork Out of Performance Management

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• to Very Small Virtual-Volume Configuration

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• Cache Manager Host Agent

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• HiReturn Investment Analysis Tool Kit

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• HiReturn Investment Analysis Tool Kit

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• The HiReturn Methodology Is Implemented in Three Phases

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• Phase 1 - Preparation

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• Phase 2 - On-site, One-day Assessment

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• Infrastructure Review

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• Assimilation

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• Findings

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• Phase 3 - Final Report

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• The On-site Assesment Produces the Needed Facts to Build a Business Case

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• Results and Reports Quantify Both IT Benefits and Business Benefits

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• Chapter 12 – Global Solutions Services

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• Hitachi Data Systems Is Consistently Ranked Number One in the Industry

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• Global Solutions Services Overview

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• Storage Management Solutions

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• The HiCommand Device Manager Enablement Service

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• Basic Implementation Service for InterSAN PATHLINE

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• Data Protection Solutions

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• Data Replication Planning and Design Service

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• Implementation Service for Hitachi TrueCopy Software

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• Integration Service for Hitachi TrueCopy Software

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• Implementation Service for Hitachi ShadowImage Software

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• Integration Service for Hitachi ShadowImage Software

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• Hitachi SplitSecond Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft Exchange

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• Hitachi SplitSecond Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft SQL Ser ver

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• Storage Infrastructure Solutions

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• Configuration Management Service

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• Fiber Design and Implementation Service

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• Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON

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• Storage Consolidation Planning and Design Service

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• Storage Consolidation Implementation Service

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• Open Systems Data Migration Planning Service

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• Open Systems Data Migration Implementation Service

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• SAN Services

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• Glossary of Terms

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• and open systems exploitation.

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• The Lightning 9900 V Series is based on an internal switched architecture.

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

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• of shared-bus systems by a factor of 2.5x.

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• Today’s heterogeneous IT environment demands virtualization of storage.

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• Heterogeneous solutions today.

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• The Lightning 9900 V Series virtual Fibre Channel ports and Host Storage Domains.

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• A Lightning 9980V system Control Frame and its major components.

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• A Lightning 9980V system Array Frame with its major components.

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• Power supply modules for the Lightning 9900 V Series systems.

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• A Lightning 9970V system single-cabinet storage system.

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• and mainframe computers.

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• A 2Gbit/sec Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components.

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• An ESCON host adapter board and its major hardware components.

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• switched access to cache from all channel adapters.

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

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

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• protection than competitive products.

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• balancing for open systems.

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• response time while workloads dramatically increase.

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• Software Solutions Guide.

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• platform of choice.

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• SOAP industry standard.

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• Host Storage Domains reduce costs through fewer physical connections.

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• SANtinel software uses pre-defined zones to protect data from unauthorized access.

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

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• Comparison of Lightning 9900 V Series models.

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• Bandwidth of supported interfaces of the Lightning 9900 V Series

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• System capacities and number of disk drives for various configurations.

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• Lightning 9980V system bandwidth is ten times that of competition.

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• Summary of Hitachi Resource Manager solutions and the products they support

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