Hitachi 9900 - Manual

Table of Figures Figure 1 The Lightning 9980V system provides for exploding gr owth and data hyper-consolidationwhile the Lightning 9970V system provides for managed gr owth and open systems exploitation. ............................................................................................2 F...

Hitachi Data Sy s t e m s viii Tables Table 1 Comparison of Lightning 9900 V Series models. ..................................................................2 Table 2 Bandwidth of supported interfaces of the Lightning 9900 V Series. ....................................16 Table 3 System capacities a...

1 Introduction Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again Hitachi Data Systems, in presenting the Hitachi F reedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series internal switched storage architecture with virtual Fibre Channel switches, againredefines the industry standard for “best-of-breed” storage system...

Lightning 9900 V Series Product Off e r i n g s The Lightning 9900 V Series offers two models – the Lightning 9980V ™ and the Lightning 9970V ™ . The Lightning 9980V system is recommended for users requiring large storage capacities of 149TB+ of raw storage capacity. With the same advanced architect...

An Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Arc h i t e c t u re The Lightning 9900 V Series intelligent storage systems are the most powerful enterprise systems in the industry today and two generations ahead of the competition. Thenew architecture used in the Lightning 9900 V Series has almost twic...

The main components that make up the Lightning 9900 V Series systems are the Array Control Processor modules (ACPs) and Host Adapter modules, called Channel HostInterface Processors (CHIPs). These elements enable the unsurpassed bandwidth of the Hi-Star network by bringing their own network paths (a...

• Separate storage for control and configuration tables • Mirrored cache instead of single image cache 2 • Offered by Hitachi Data Systems, the leading supplier of storage systems for geographically GDPS ™ production sites • NanoCopy ™ technology which offers a scheme for disaster recovery • High-av...

Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage An important key to lower TCO is the Lightning 9900 V Series “virtual” Fibr e Channel ports. Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in today’s heterogeneousstorage environment, which is made up of these storage architectures: direct attachedsto...

9 Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series Packaging The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V ™ System Packaging The Lightning 9980V system is available in a two-to-five cabinet configuration (as shown on the co ver of this guide), depending on connectivity and capacity needs. AControl...

Lightning 9980V System Array Frames Each array frame of the Lightning 9980V system contains up to 256 Hard Disk Drive (HDD) modules and communication interfaces to the Control Frame, for a total of 1024drives for a maximum configured system. An Array Frame is shown in Figure 9. This design allows fo...

Cables carry 48-volt main system power from the back of the Control Frame and Array Frame where the power is converted to the required voltages. Different AC power cord options allow all Lightning 9900 V Series models to connect with the different electrical outlet configurations used around the wor...

The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 V Series Lightning 9900 V Series systems are designed with a system-monitoring network. The system-monitoring cables are connected to all cabinets in Lightning 9900 V Series systems,and they report a variety of system parameters, such as component ...

13 Front-end Design of theHitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON ® or FICON ™ H o s t Connectivity and Scalability The Lightning 9900 ™ V Series supports both Fibre Channel for open systems and ESCON ® or FICON ™ for IBM ® S/390 ® - and zOS ™ -...

About the Fibre Channel Interface Board s Each Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 13, has four Interface Processors for management of connectivity to the host. Each port supports a transfer rate of2Gbit/sec (gigabits/second) in conformance with the Fibre Channel standard. An optionale...

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 S...

17 Hi-Star ™ Architecture – An Internal SwitchedHierarchical Star Networ k The Internal Hi-Star ™ A rc h i t e c t u re The internal Hi-Star architecture consists of two separate networks: the Cache Hierarchical Star Network (C-HSN) and the Control Memory Hierarchical Star Networ k(CM-HSN). The Cach...

21 High-performance Back-endDesign High-speed All Fibre Channel Back-end Design Special high-performance back-end drives are available with the Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series. All the drives are 3.5" Low Profile (LP) 1"-height form factor with capacities available in 36G...

23 Capacities and RAIDArchitecture Storage Capacity of the Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series The Lightning 9900 ™ V Series supports an unmatched range of capacities as shown in Table 3. Advantages of the Lightning 9900 V Series RAID Hard w a re Hitachi designs the most advanced RAI...

Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series Availability Is Highest in theIndustry An Overview of High-availability (HA) Computing Software It is increasingly important for a business to support continued access to global information 24/7. What’s more, careers often depend on the availabilit...

• Dual data paths and dual control paths connecting every component • Mirrored cache for all write data instead of single image cache 4 • IBM ® Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex ™ (GDPS ™ ) support • Hitachi TrueCopy ™ software combined with Hitachi ShadowImage ™ software for disaster recove...

Parallel Database Clustering This type of middleware is a special version of host failover middleware, which supports major parallel database servers like Oracle ® Parallel Server, Informix ® XPS, and Sybase ® MPP. Clustering middleware supports distributed lock management, a feature that enables pa...

31 Unmatched Performanceand Scalability Truly Scalable Performance Based on the internal switched Hi-Star ™ architecture, the Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series shows unmatched performance scalability. This chapter discusses the ability to dramatically add more online transaction pr...

Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Software Solutions Are Best-of-Breed Customers and analysts regard the Hitachi F reedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series as the most advanced products in the enterprise storage system market. The Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Guide (Figure 24) discusses the ...

Hitachi Data Sy s t e m s 34 Storage Area Management Suite HiCommand ™ Management Framework ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ - HiCommand Device Manager ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ - HiCommand Tuning Manager ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Hitachi Resource Manager ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ - Hitachi Graph-Track ™ ✔ ✔ ✔ - Hitachi FlashAccess ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ - Hitachi Virtual Logical Volume ...

policy-driven automated management across the entire life cycle of shared storage services,ranging from planning, implementation, and provisioning, to monitoring. Business Continuity Suite A well-planned business continuity strategy is essential if an organization is to survive planned or unplanned ...

information and performance levels. The Hi-Track "call home" predictive maintenancesystem is based on intelligent software that monitors a Lightning 9900 V Series system andnotifies the Hitachi Data Systems support center for preventative maintenance. DynamicLink Manager software solution in...

Series’ systems, Priority Access software and Host Storage Domains guarantee that the mostcrucial applications get the highest level of service. FlashAccess allows users to quickly andeasily lock and unlock information into cache in real time. A user can confidently "fill it upand max it out"...

The Hi C o m m a n d ™ Management Fr a m ew o rk andHitachi Re s o u rce Ma n a g e r ™ System Management So f t w a re A Powerful and Open Systems Management Philosophy The Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Software Solutions support an enterprise ’s strategic goal of helping customers focus on their busin...

based on a combination of Hitachi products and best-of-breed storage hardware andsoftware. Likewise, Device Manager software is customizable to integrate easily with existinginfrastructures and accommodate future gr owth plans. The Device Manager module simplifies management functions and enables in...

Overview of How the Systems Management Software SupportsBusiness Objectives To be successful in today’s business environment, companies must attain the highest levels of business agility, with maximum IT system efficiency and performance. The“storage-centric” model of computing is widely accepted to...

the operating system as a single, large LUN. This capability simplifies storagemanagement because there are fe wer LUNs to manage. Two levels of passwor dprotection, user and administrator, ensure maximum data security. Users can vie wonly Hitachi Freedom Storage LUN configuration information, while...

WWN may only be assigned to a single HSD on each Fibre Channel port. SANtinel software may be used to authorize multiple hosts to access a particular HSD. SANtinel software may be further used to permit or deny aparticular host to access individual LUNs within the HSD, based upon the WWNof the host....

scrutinizes activity all the way to the logical-device level, reporting on channel-interface-processor usage rates, cache-usage rate by function, and logical-deviceutilization. This data pinpoints specific activities that may have a negative impacton operations, and lets the user fine-tune the syste...

Optimizing Performance,Availability, and Cost withthe HiReturn ™ Investment Analysis Tool Kit HiReturn ™ Investment Analysis Tool Kit Most enterprises today require that financial investment analysis be prepared prior to IT capital expenditures. Identifying hardware and software as "best-of-bree...

Phase 3 – Final report. The HiReturn team provides a business Financial Impact Report that summarizes the ROI findings of the assessment and outlines thesuggested strategy, along with other key recommendations. The On-site Assessment Produces the Needed Facts to Build a BusinessCase The HiReturn ana...

Global Solutions Services Hitachi Data Systems Is Consistently Ranked Number One in the Industry In numerous independent sur veys on IT services organizations, Hitachi Data Systems continually wins the highest ratings in terms of overall customer satisfaction. "ServiceResponsiveness" is the ...

55 Glossary of Terms 10BaseT Ethernet with a data transfer rate of 10Mbits/sec. 100BaseT Also known as Fast Ethernet with a data transfer rate of 100Mbits/sec. AG Array Group. ACP Array Control Processor. The group of processors on a PCB that performs the physicalaccess of the disk drives across fou...

CHA Channel Host Adapter. CHIP Channel Host Interface Processor. C–HSN Cache Hierarchical Star Network. CHT Channel adapter Tachyon (for Fibre Channel interfaces). Client/Server Architecture Client/Server Architecture is a network architecture in which each computer orprocessor on the network is eit...