Hitachi 9900 User Manual

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Introduction 

Hitachi Data Systems, in presenting the Hitachi Freedom Storage

™

Lightning 9900

™

V

Series internal switched storage architecture with virtual Fibre Channel switches, again
redefines the industry standard for “best-of-breed” storage systems. It is the most advanced
design available in the world for open systems and mainframe data, and it is now two
generations ahead of the competition. The patented Hi-Star

™

architecture, combined with

industry-unique “virtual” Fibre Channel ports, powers the most intelligent, highest
performance, enterprise-class storage product in the industry today.

Hitachi Data Systems is committed to enabling its customers to build world-class,

profit-oriented solutions on top of the Hitachi TrueNorth

™

vision and strategic direction.

With its state-of-the-art components, TrueNorth enables customers to optimize the value of
information within an extremely agile, easy-to-manage and highly-resilient systems
environment. This, in turn, leads to competitive advantage for the enterprise by fostering
the close cooperation of employees, owners, and suppliers through integrated, bulletproof
information systems. TrueNorth allows the enterprise to simplify, protect, and optimize its
information infrastructure, thereby reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensuring a
more rapid return on investment (ROI). The TrueNorth vision and strategic direction,
along with an associated product road map, anticipates customer needs. The TrueNorth
vision views the future storage infrastructure as a synergistic combination of management
software and powerful, intelligent storage systems that deliver set-and-forget management,
complemented by flexible capacity, performance, and connectivity.

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Hi-Star, a modern switched storage architecture, was introduced in 2000 and 
is the only architecture of its type available among enterprise-class storage systems. It
was upgraded in May 2002 to almost twice the internal processing power and bandwidth.

2.

The Lightning 9900 V Series leapfrogs competitive products in every
category of comparison, including internal hardware architecture, availability,
performance, and embedded software solutions. 

3.

Very high availability is provided by an unusually robust product design. Full 
environmental monitoring and hot swap capability is also provided.

4.

Front-end support options include virtually all major open systems platforms and 
IBM

®

S/390

®

- and zOS

™

- compatible mainframe computers, which provides unsurpassed

functionality.

5.

The Lightning 9900 V Series dramatically increases front-end connectivity by making 
available multiple “virtual” Fibre Channel ports associated with each of 32 physical 
Fibre Channel front-end ports. This enables truly large-scale data consolidation.

6.

The Lightning 9900 V Series offers exceptional perf o rmance, with no decline in 
user response time in tests simulating 7200 OLTP users running in parallel with two 
d e c i s i o n - s u p p o rt applications performing full table scans at 6.6 million rows per second.

7.

Backup windows, operations efficiency, and disaster recovery are optimized using 
leading Hitachi Data Systems copy, migration, and data duplication software solutions.

8.

The many advanced system management functions of the Lightning 9900 V Series 
can be initiated, managed, and controlled by the powerful HiCommand

™

Management

Framework.

9.

The Lightning 9900 V Series is fully compatible with all major UNIX

management tools.

10. Hitachi offers Hi-Track

service, with an optional  robust dial-in capability that 

provides world-class experts to diagnose problems if they occur.

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