Hitachi 9900 User Manual
Table of Figures
Figure 1
The Lightning 9980V system provides for exploding growth and data hyper-consolidation
while the Lightning 9970V system provides for managed growth
and open systems exploitation. ............................................................................................2
while the Lightning 9970V system provides for managed growth
and open systems exploitation. ............................................................................................2
Figure 2
The Lightning 9900 V Series is based on an internal switched architecture. ........................3
Figure 3
A shared-bus architecture is limited to two simultaneous I/O operations. ............................4
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. ............................................................................6
of shared-bus systems by a factor of 2.5x. ............................................................................6
Figure 5
Today’s heterogeneous IT environment demands virtualization of storage. ..........................6
Figure 6
Heterogeneous solutions today. ............................................................................................7
Figure 7
The Lightning 9900 V Series virtual Fibre Channel ports and Host Storage Domains. ......8
Figure 8
A Lightning 9980V system Control Frame and its major components. ..............................9
Figure 9
A Lightning 9980V system Array Frame with its major components. ................................10
Figure 10
Power supply modules for the Lightning 9900 V Series systems. ......................................11
Figure 11
A Lightning 9970V system single-cabinet storage system. ..................................................12
Figure 12
Fibre Channel and ESCON or FICON adapter boards connect to open systems
and mainframe computers. ................................................................................................13
and mainframe computers. ................................................................................................13
Figure 13
A 2Gbit/sec Fibre Channel host adapter board and its major hardware components. ........14
Figure 14
An ESCON host adapter board and its major hardware components. ..............................15
Figure 15
The Lightning 9900 V Series systems support both mainframe and open system hosts. ....16
Figure 16
The C-HSN of a Lightning 9970V system provides fully redundant
switched access to cache from all channel adapters. ............................................................17
switched access to cache from all channel adapters. ............................................................17
Figure 17
Separate redundant control memory handles the exchange of control information, such as
status, location, and configuration of data, between processors and cache memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
status, location, and configuration of data, between processors and cache memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Figure 18
Functional diagram of an Array Group with FC-AL disks. ................................................21
Figure 19
Diagram of four ACP pairs and 32 FC-AL back-end disks for the Lightning 9980V system. 21
Figure 20
The Lightning 9900 V Series systems are available with RAID-1+ and RAID-5 arrays. ....24
Figure 21
The Lightning 9900 V Series offers a far more complete range of availability
protection than competitive products. ................................................................................26
protection than competitive products. ................................................................................26
Figure 22
Dynamic Link Manager software automatically provides path failover and load
balancing for open systems. ................................................................................................28
balancing for open systems. ................................................................................................28
Figure 23
Test results show that the advantages of the Lightning 9980V system maintain user
response time while workloads dramatically increase. ........................................................32
response time while workloads dramatically increase. ........................................................32
Figure 24
Hitachi Data Systems offers a broad range of remote copy, data duplication, and
data migration software solutions which are profiled in the Hitach Freedom Storage
Software Solutions Guide. ..................................................................................................35
data migration software solutions which are profiled in the Hitach Freedom Storage
Software Solutions Guide. ..................................................................................................35
Figure 25
HiCommand Device Manager software and Tuning Manager software allows management
of virtually all Hitachi Freedom Storage hardware and software from the customer’s
platform of choice. ............................................................................................................40
of virtually all Hitachi Freedom Storage hardware and software from the customer’s
platform of choice. ............................................................................................................40
Figure 26
The HiCommand Management Framework is based on the CIM and
SOAP industry standard. ..................................................................................................42
SOAP industry standard. ..................................................................................................42
Figure 27
Host Storage Domains reduce costs through fewer physical connections. ..........................45
Figure 28
SANtinel software uses pre-defined zones to protect data from unauthorized access. ........46
Figure 29
The GUI interface on Graph-Track software simplifies performance management. ..........48
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