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Table of Contents Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................iii Table of Figures ................................................................................................................
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vii Table of Figures Figure 1 The 9960 provides for exploding growth and data consolidation while the 9910 provides for managed growth and open system exploitation. ................................................2 Figure 2 The Hitachi Lightning 9960 Series’ Hi-Star internal switched-fabric architec...
Page 9 - Tables
Hitachi Data Systems viii Tables Table 1 Comparison of the Lightning 9900 series models. ................................................................2 Table 2 Bandwidth of supported interfaces of the Lightning 9900 Series. ......................................14 Table 3 System Capacities and Nu...
Page 10 - Introduction; The Only Switched-Fabric Storage Architecture in the World
1 Introduction The Only Switched-Fabric Storage Architecture in the World The Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ Series internal switched-fabric storage architecture is considered the most advanced design available in the world for open systemsand mainframe data. The patented Hi-Star ™ archi...
Page 11 - An Overview of the Hitachi Lightning 9900
Product Characteristics 9960 9910 Number of Cabinets 2-7 1 Maximum Cache Capacity 32 GB 16 GB Number of Fibre Channel/ESCON ® Ports Up to 32 Up to 24 Number of FICON Ports Up to 16 Up to 12 Number of Disks (HDDs) Up to 512 Up to 48 Number of Array Groups Up to 126 Up to 11 Number of ACP pairs 1-4 1 ...
Page 14 - Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems
Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems ® Additional information on the enterprise storage market, including an in-depth overview of the technically advanced and unsurpassed software solutions available fromHitachi, is available in the companion publication, the Hitachi Softwar...
Page 18 - Series; The Lightning 9900 Series Packaging
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 ™ Series models to connect with the different electrical outlet configurations used around the wor...
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11 Front-end Design of theHitachi Lightning 9900Series CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON ® or FICON Host Connectivity and Scalability The Lightning 9900 ™ Series supports both Fibre Channel for open systems and ESCON ® or FICON for S/390 ® compatible platforms as shown in Figure 8. 3 Figure...
Page 21 - About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards
About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards Each Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 9, has four Interface Processors 2 for management of connectivity to the host. Figure 9 – A FibreChannel host adapterboard and its majorhardware components. Hitachi Data Systems 12 2 The Lightning 9900 ™ ...
Page 22 - Figure 10 – An ESCON; Front-end Design of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series
There are four ports for each interface board or a total of 32 host interfaces for a fully configured system. An ESCON interface board is shown in Figure 10. A FICON interfaceboard has a similar appearance. A Lightning 9900 ™ Series system can connect to mainframes and open systems hosts, thereby co...
Page 23 - Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces; Number of Host Interfaces Supported
Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900 ™ 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 Number of Host Interfaces Supported Up to ...
Page 30 - New Fibre Channel Disk Drives
21 High Performance Back-endDesign High-speed Back-end Design New Hitachi high-performance back-end drives are available with the Lightning 9900 ™ Series. The drives are attached via Fibre Channel – Arbitrated Loops (FC-AL). Eight100MB/sec FC-AL connect to dual ported drives for each ACP pair. With ...
Page 31 - Maximum Configuration of ACPs and Disks
These new dual-ported/dual-active Fibre Channel disk drives, combined with the technology built into the ACP pair, allow the back end of the Lightning 9900 ™ Series to use all eight FC-AL paths in an ACP pair for both performance and fault tolerance.However, no one disk or array group can use both p...
Page 34 - Software products contribute to High-Availability Computing
Hitachi High-AvailabilitySoftware ImprovesApplication Service Levels An Overview of High-Availability (HA) Computing Software It is increasingly important for a business to support continued access to global information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What’s more, careers often depend on theavailabil...
Page 35 - Open Systems High-Availability Middleware Support; offers a
• Dual data paths and dual control paths connecting every component. • Mirrored cache for all write data instead of single image cache. 3 • GDPS support. • Hitachi TrueCopy combined with ShadowImage ™ for disaster recovery. • Hitachi NanoCopy ™ to provide Point-in-Time copies without requiring quies...
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There are four basic types of high-availability middleware that can reduce downtime in the event of a data path or host failure. The Lightning 9900 ™ supports each classification of middleware: 1. Alternate Pathing middleware switches the I/O load in the event of path failure This type of middleware...
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4. 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...
Page 38 - Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling; Unmatched Competitive Advantage in RAID Choices
Hitachi High Availability Software Improves Application Service Levels 29 Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling The Lightning 9900 ™ provides fully redundant fans for uninterrupted cooling to all components of the system. The speed and operation of these fans are monitored by theenvironmental monitori...
Page 40 - Performance Considerations; Truly Scalable Performance
31 Performance Considerations Truly Scalable Performance Based on the internal switched-fabric Hi-Star ™ architecture, the Lightning 9960 ™ shows unmatched performance scalability. The more capacity and connectivity added to the9960, the more total bandwidth increases. As stated previously, the 6.4G...
Page 41 - Test Results
Internal Switching Overcomes the Limitations of Shared Bus Architectures It can be seen from Figure 24 that a reduction occurs in the OLTP performance for the shared bus architecture of the 7700E system. This occurs at Point 1, when the DSSapplication begins at about 45 minutes into the test. It dep...
Page 42 - Software; software; Business Benefit
33 The Lightning 9900 SeriesSoftware Solutions Are theBest in the World Customers and analysts regard the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 ™ Series as the most advanced products in the enterprise storage system market. The Software Solutions Guide discusses the advantages of this suite of lead...
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The components of H i Command ™ HiCommand ™ consists of three components: 1. The HiCommand ™ Server resides on any Windows ® NT/2000, or Sun Solaris server, and connects to the Lightning 9900 ™ Series system(s) over a private LAN. A single HiCommand ™ server can manage multiple Lightning 9900 ™ Seri...
Page 49 - GUI
Hitachi Resource Manager ™ 9000 The following is a summary list of the many ways in which the Hitachi Resource Manager ™ can simplify IT operations, improve availability and performance service levels for business critical OLTP and DSS applications, and thereby enable the more rapiddeployment of new...
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information at the touch of a button. The robust GUI-oriented command screen forHitachi Graph-Track ™ is shown in Figure 26. Running on a PC attached to a dedicated LAN, Hitachi Graph-Track ™ displays real-time or historical data for all connected Lightning 9900 ™ systems, helping users identify imp...
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Hitachi LUN Manager also features logical unit size expansion that dramatically improves LUN flexibility. Up to 36 physical LUNs can be presented to the operatingsystem as a single, large LUN. This capability simplifies storage management because thereare fewer LUNs to manage. Two levels of password...
Page 55 - Data Protection Services Lab
order to protect it. The Data Protection Services team uses software in all three categories ofdata movement: 1) Data Migration 2) Real-Time Copy 3) Point-in-Time Copy The team will perform data relocation and migration tasks that establish rock-solid backup and disaster recovery copy facilities to ...
Page 56 - Professional Services and Support
Continuous Availability Service Keeping critical systems available at a level 4 or 5 on the Scale of 9s is no easy task. Itinvolves the best of hardware, software, and operations practice. Hitachi Data Systems ® professional services experts review the entire backup and recovery software portfolio,o...
Page 60 - Glossary of Terms
51 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...
Page 61 - Availability; Back end; Business Interruption
communication is an exactly timed stream of bits when the start of a character islocated by using a clocking mechanism such as bipolar encoding. See alsoSynchronous, Hitachi TrueCopy ™ . Availability In computer science, availability refers to the degree to which a system or resource iscapable of pe...
Page 62 - Glossary
CARB Cache memory Arbitrator circuit. Hitachi designed logical circuit in the Cache Switch(CSW) used to arbitrate access to cache. Cache Cache (pronounced cash) can be either on-chip memory circuits in a microprocessor(e.g. L2 processor cache), a reserved section of main memory (e.g. system or serve...
Page 79 - XRC
WAN Wide Area Networks or WANs are networks of computers that are geographicallydispersed and connected by radio waves, telephone lines, satellites, or high-speed fibreoptic backbones. Warm site An alternate-processing site that is only partially equipped (as compared to Hot sitewhich is fully equip...