Hitachi 9900 User Manual
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................iii
Table of Figures ........................................................................................................................................vii
Table of Tables ........................................................................................................................................viii
Chapter 1 – Introduction ________________________________________________________________1
Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again ..........................................................................................1
Lightning 9900 V Series Product Offerings ................................................................................................2
An Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Architecture ........................................................................3
Limitation of Competitive Shared-bus Architectures ..................................................................................4
The Lightning 9900 V Series Systems Have an Advanced Availability Profile Compared to
Competitive Products............................................................................................................................4
Other Information Sources Available from Hitachi Data Systems ..............................................................5
Reduced TCO ............................................................................................................................................5
Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage............................................................................................6
Chapter 2 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series Packaging ________________________9
The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V System Packaging ............................................................9
Lightning 9980V System Control Frame....................................................................................................9
Lightning 9980V System Array Frames ....................................................................................................10
Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9970V System Packaging ................................................................11
The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 V Series............................................................12
Chapter 3 – Front-end Design of the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series ____________13
CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON or FICON Host Connectivity and Scalability............13
About the Fibre Channel Interface Boards ................................................................................................14
Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces ..................................................................................................16
Number of Host Interfaces Supported ......................................................................................................16
Types of Hosts Supported with Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the
Lightning 9900 V Series Systems ..............................................................................................................16
Chapter 4 – Hi-Star Architecture – An Internal Switched Hierarchical Star Network ______________17
The Internal Hi-Star Architecture ............................................................................................................17
The Cache Hierarchical Star Network ......................................................................................................17
The Cache Switch Provides Non-blocking Switched Access to Cache ......................................................18
The Lightning 9980V System Provides 64GB of Fully Addressable Cache ..............................................18
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Advanced Cache Algorithms of the Lightning 9900 V Series....................................................................18
Hitachi FlashAccess Software Allows Data Sets to be Permanently Placed in Cache ................................18
Read-ahead for High-performance Sequential Reads ................................................................................18
Control Memory Hierarchical Star Network ............................................................................................18
Chapter 5 – High-performance Back-end Design ____________________________________________21
High-speed All Fibre Channel Back-end Design ......................................................................................21
Maximum Configuration of ACPs and Disks ..........................................................................................22
New Fibre Channel Disk Drives ..............................................................................................................22
The Importance of Command Tag Queuing (CTQ) ................................................................................22
Chapter 6 – Capacities and RAID Architecture ____________________________________________23
Storage Capacity of the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series ..............................................23
Advantages of the Lightning 9900 V Series RAID Hardware ..................................................................23
RAID-1+ ..................................................................................................................................................23
RAID-5 – Distributed Parity ....................................................................................................................23
RAID Rebuild Capability ........................................................................................................................23
High-density Disk Drive (HDD) Assemblies............................................................................................24
Chapter 7 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series Availability Is Highest in the Industry 25
An Overview of High-availability (HA) Computing Software ..................................................................25
Software Products Contribute to High-availability Computing ................................................................25
The Lightning 9900 V Series Has an Advanced Availability Profile Compared to Competitive Products 25
Open Systems High-availability Middleware Support ..............................................................................26
Alternate Pathing Middleware Switches the I/O Load in the Event of Path Failure ..........................27
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software Provides Path Failover and Load Balancing......................27
Host Failover ....................................................................................................................................27
Parallel Database Clustering ..............................................................................................................28
Standard Hot Swap and Redundant Power Supplies ................................................................................28
Standard Redundant Fans for Cooling......................................................................................................29
Competitive Advantage in RAID Choices ................................................................................................29
Chapter 8 – Unmatched Performance and Scalability ________________________________________31
Truly Scalable Performance ......................................................................................................................31
Internal Switching Overcomes the Limitations of Shared-bus Architectures ............................................31
There Is NO Match for the Performance of the Lightning 9980V System ..............................................31
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Chapter 9 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Are Best of Breed ______________________33
Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Simplifies Information Management, Protects Data Assets,
and Optimizes Storage Investments ..........................................................................................................33
Storage Area Management Suite ........................................................................................................33
Business Continuity Suite..................................................................................................................35
Backup and Recovery Suite ..............................................................................................................36
Performance Enhancement Suite ......................................................................................................36
Data Movement Suite........................................................................................................................37
Chapter 10 – The HiCommand Management Framework and Hitachi Resource Manager
System Management Software________________________________________________39
A Powerful and Open Systems Management Philosophy ..........................................................................39
HiCommand Management Framework Allows Systems Management of Hitachi Freedom Storage and
Software through the Enterprise’s Vendor of Choice..........................................................................39
HiCommand Management Framework Provides an Open Framework for Storage Management ............39
Open, Standards-based Approach ............................................................................................................40
CIM Benefits to Customers ......................................................................................................................40
Overcome the Challenges Created by De-coupling Storage Resources from Specific
Server(s) in a SAN ............................................................................................................................42
View and Operate Networked Storage as a Holistic Resource ..........................................................42
Avoid Being "Locked" into a Proprietary Management Environment................................................42
Overview of How the Systems Management Software Supports Business Objectives ................................43
Hitachi Resource Manager Provides Powerful Device-level Storage Management Capability ....................43
Out-of-band Management ................................................................................................................43
SNMP Support Ensures Compliance with All Major Systems-management Platforms......................44
Java Agent ........................................................................................................................................44
Host Storage Domains ......................................................................................................................44
Hitachi LUN Manager and LUN Expansion Manager Software Simplifies Configuration
Management and Reduces Staffing Costs ..........................................................................................44
Hitachi SANtinel Software ................................................................................................................45
Hitachi Virtual LUN and LUN Expansion Software ........................................................................46
Hitachi FlashAccess Software Allows Data to be “Locked and Unlocked” in Cache On-the-fly ......44
Remote Console – Storage Navigator ................................................................................................47
Hitachi Graph-Track Software Takes the Guesswork Out of Performance Management....................47
Hitachi Virtual Logical Volume Image Manager Software for S/390 Environments Allows Very Large
to Very Small Virtual-Volume Configuration ....................................................................................48
Cache Manager Host Agent ..............................................................................................................48
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Chapter 11 – Optimizing Performance, Availability, and Cost with the
HiReturn Investment Analysis Tool Kit ________________________________________49
HiReturn Investment Analysis Tool Kit ....................................................................................................49
The HiReturn Methodology Is Implemented in Three Phases ..................................................................49
Phase 1 - Preparation ........................................................................................................................49
Phase 2 - On-site, One-day Assessment ............................................................................................49
Phase 3 - Final Report ......................................................................................................................50
The On-site Assesment Produces the Needed Facts to Build a Business Case ..........................................50
Results and Reports Quantify Both IT Benefits and Business Benefits ....................................................50
Chapter 12 – Global Solutions Services __________________________________________________51
Hitachi Data Systems Is Consistently Ranked Number One in the Industry............................................51
Infrastructure Review..............................................................................................................49
Assimilation............................................................................................................................49
Findings..................................................................................................................................49
Global Solutions Services Overview..........................................................................................................51
Storage Management Solutions ................................................................................................................51
The HiCommand Device Manager Enablement Service ..................................................................51
Basic Implementation Service for InterSAN PATHLINE..................................................................51
Data Protection Solutions ........................................................................................................................52
Data Replication Planning and Design Service ..................................................................................52
Implementation Service for Hitachi TrueCopy Software....................................................................52
Integration Service for Hitachi TrueCopy Software ..........................................................................52
Implementation Service for Hitachi ShadowImage Software ............................................................52
Integration Service for Hitachi ShadowImage Software ....................................................................52
Hitachi SplitSecond Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft Exchange ................................53
Hitachi SplitSecond Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft SQL Ser ver ............................53
Storage Infrastructure Solutions................................................................................................................53
Configuration Management Service ..................................................................................................53
Fiber Design and Implementation Service ........................................................................................53
Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON ......................................................................................54
Storage Consolidation Planning and Design Service..........................................................................54
Storage Consolidation Implementation Service ................................................................................54
Open Systems Data Migration Planning Service ..............................................................................54
Open Systems Data Migration Implementation Service ....................................................................54
SAN Services ....................................................................................................................................54
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Glossary of Terms ____________________________________________________________________55
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
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
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
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
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
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
Figure 22 Dynamic Link Manager software automatically provides path failover and load
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
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
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
Figure 26 The HiCommand Management Framework is based on the CIM and
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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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 and number of disk drives for various configurations. ............................23
Table 4 Lightning 9980V system bandwidth is ten times that of competition.................................31
Table 5 Summary of Hitachi Freedom Storage software products.. ..................................................34
Table 6 Summary of Hitachi Resource Manager solutions and the products they support...............43
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Introduction
Redefining the Industry Standard, Once Again
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.
1. 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®, Microsoft
Windows NT®, Windows®2000 and S/390 mainframe network and system
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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Two generations ahead
of the competition.
Industry-unique
“virtual” Fibre Channel
ports.
Ten times the bandwidth
of competitive products.
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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 architecture
as the Lightning 9980V system, the Lightning 9970V system bridges the gap between
standard midrange and premium-priced advanced-function storage, with capacities up to
18TB+ of storage. The Lightning 9970V system is recommended for users who require
advanced function capabilities of premium storage, yet do not need the actual storage
capacity of the Lightning 9980V system. Table 1 compares key features of the two new
Lightning 9900 V Series product offerings.
Table 1 – Comparison of
Lightning 9900 V Series
models.
Lightning 9900 V Series
Product Characteristics system system
Number of Cabinets 2-5 1
Maximum Cache Capacity 64GB 32GB
Number of Fibre Channel Ports Up to 64 Up to 48
Number of ESCON®Ports
Number of FICON™Ports Up to 32 Up to 24
Number of Disks (HDDs) Up to 1024 Up to 128
Number of Array Groups Up to 254 Up to 31
Number of ACP pairs 1-4 1-2
Number of FC-AL Paths to Back-end Disks Up to 32 Up to 16
Maximum TB of Raw Disk Capacity 149TB+ 18TB+
Minimum usable RAID-5 Capacity 73GB 73GB
Maximum usable RAID-5 Capacity 127.8TB 15TB
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Lightning 9980V Lightning 9970V
Up to 48 Up to 24
Selecting the Lightning 9970V system or Lightning 9980V system depends on capacity
requirements, performance requirements, and expected growth of data. The Lightning 9900
V Series therefore offers product alternatives that cover a very broad range of scalability, as
illustrated in Figure 1.
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.
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With 2 ACP pairs maximum
In t ro d u c t i o n
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. The
new architecture used in the Lightning 9900 V Series has almost twice the internal
processing power and bandwidth of our earlier enterprise systems. Figure 2 illustrates the
architecture of the Lightning 9900 V Series.
The Lightning 9980V
system has almost twice
the processing power of
our earlier enterprise
systems.
Figure 2 – The Lightning
9900 V Series is based
on an internal switched
architecture.
At the heart of the Lightning 9900 V Series is enormous capacity for throughput,
thanks to Hi-Star architecture. This network of interconnecting high-speed links to system
components provides an unequaled internal aggregate bandwidth of 15.9GB/sec
(gigabytes/sec) in the Lightning 9980V system. This bandwidth is divided into 10.6GB/sec
for data transfer and 5.3GB/sec for separate internal control information transfer. This
superhigh bandwidth is approximately 10 times that of competitive products.
The Lightning 9980V
system has an internal
bandwidth of
15.9GB/second.
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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 Host
Interface Processors (CHIPs). These elements enable the unsurpassed bandwidth of the HiStar network by bringing their own network paths (and bandwidth) to the Cache
Hierarchical Star Network (C-HSN) and the Control Memory Hierarchical Star Network
(CM-HSN). This means that the full 15.9GB/sec internal bandwidth is available with a
fully configured Lightning 9980V system with all four ACP pairs (eight modules total) and
all four CHIP pairs (eight modules total). This is a truly high-performance and costeffective configuration. With any Lightning 9900 V Series configuration, growing or scaling
can be easily completed by adding more CHIP pairs for connectivity or ACP pairs for more
capacity or performance. The internal bandwidth increases every time components are
added. The bandwidths stated are the rated bandwidths for the paths; the effective rates will
vary based on application workload and bandwidth consumption.
Although two ACP pairs are allowed for the Lightning 9970V system, more than one
pair is rarely needed except for scientific applications requiring massive bandwidth of raw
data from disk.
Bus contention is
virtually eliminated with
the Hi-Star architecture.
Figure 3 – A shared-bus
architecture is limited to
two simultaneous I/O
operations.
Limitation of Competitive Shared-bus Arc h i t e c t u res
Unlike the shared-bus architecture of some competitive products (as shown in Figure
3), Hi-Star internally switched architecture is designed to truly scale in both capacity and
performance and does not have to contend for limited bus bandwidth.
Hitachi is the only major
supplier of enterpriseclass storage systems with
a 100 percent
availability guarantee.
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The Lightning 9900 V Series Systems Have an Advanced Availability Pro f i l e
C o m p a red to Competitive Pro d u c t s
The Lightning 9900 V Series was designed with maximum emphasis on highavailability computing for today’s most critical enterprises. Chapter 7 discusses some of the
many advantages in high-availability design that the Lightning 9900 V Series has over
competitive products including:
• System microcode which can be upgraded nondisruptively
• Active/active dual-ported disk drives instead of single-port active drives
• Separate storage for control and configuration tables
• Mirrored cache instead of single image cache
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• 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-availability, custom-designed disk drives
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 from
Hitachi Data Systems, is available in the companion publication, the Hitachi Freedom
Storage Software Solutions Guide. This document is downloadable in PDF format from
www.hds.com. The report contains expert guidelines regarding industry-leading software
solutions suites from Hitachi Data Systems for storage management, business continuity,
performance enhancement, backup and recovery, and data transfer. It also compares the
Hitachi Data Systems solutions to the major competitive software solutions and drills down
into specifics.
Since enterprise storage features are increasingly required in the modular storage
market, additional information on the Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9500 V™Series
systems is available in a separate report entitled the Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder
9500 V Series Architecture Guide. The Thunder 9500 V Series are modular (midrange)
RAID storage systems designed for use in heterogeneous open systems computing
environments and targeted at the e-commerce, Web serving, and data warehousing
applications. The Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems are the only modular products
that truly deliver large, enterprise-level features with a midrange package and price.
If further information is required, Hitachi Data Systems representatives can provide
specialized presentations, reports, and expert knowledge on the topics contained in this
series of reports.
In t ro d u c t i o n
Other reports,
presentations, and
expert knowledge are
also available.
Reduced TCO
Bandwidth contention in a shared-bus architecture serves as a limit to data hyperconsolidation initiatives and limits the enterprise’s ability to reduce TCO. Figure 4
illustrates that a recent survey showed that actual deployed average capacity of Lightning
9980V systems and Lightning 9970V systems exceeded that of fixed-bus systems by a factor
of 2.5x. Since the Lightning 9980V systems and Lightning 9970V systems nearly double
internal bandwidth of our earlier enterprise-level systems, it is clear that obstacles to massive
consolidation projects will be removed. This is especially true when the Hitachi industryunique “virtual” Fibre Channel port feature of the Lightning 9900 V Series is considered.
The major objective of massive consolidation is to keep up with exploding storage
capacities without increasing head count and deploying staff to address the application
backlog. With the Lightning 9900 V Series, TCO can be reduced not only through
virtualization but also by:
• Reduced network complexity with fewer switches, connections
• Simplified and automated management tools and software
• Lower licensing, maintenance charges, and environmental costs
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Some competitive products do n o t have dual cache like the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning
9900 V Series. If there is an unrecoverable error in cache, there is no duplicate backup copy. With
these products there is an increased risk of lost data, especially if the loss occurs in the hard w a re
status area. The Lightning 9900 V Series does not have this problem since all status areas and write
data are duplexed. Although a minor concern to some given the low probability of occurrence, the
thought of data loss is never comforting to enterprise executives charged with 24/7 operations.
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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.
Figure 5 – Today’s
heterogeneous IT
environment demands
virtualization of storage.
Second-generation “Virtual” Switched Storage
An important key to lower TCO is the Lightning 9900 V Series “virtual” Fibre
Channel ports. Virtualization is becoming increasingly important in today’s heterogeneous
storage environment, which is made up of these storage architectures: direct attached
storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), and network attached storage (NAS), as
shown in Figure 5. This increases the need to centralize and efficiently manage all
heterogeneous storage with uniform enterprise policies and procedures.
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As shown in Figure 6, the heterogeneous solutions of today require the separate
configuration of physical ports for each host platform type supported, particularly in high
availability path failover and clustered environments. This both increases expense through
unnecessary extra ports and limits heterogeneous consolidation, resulting in higher TCO.
In t ro d u c t i o n
Figure 6 – Heterogeneous
solutions today.
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Figure 7 – The Lightning
9900 V Series virtual
Fibre Channel ports and
Host Storage Domains.
The Lightning 9900 V Series provides “virtual” Fibre Channel ports that are logically
managed by intelligent Fibre Channel controller cards. Each physical Fibre Channel port
may have multiple Host Storage Domains. A Host Storage Domain supports a “logical”
Fibre Channel port (Fig. 7) each with its own set of LUNs. Hosts are matched to their
assigned HSD based on a unique World Wide Names (WWNs) identifier. LUN security
provided by Hitachi SANtinel™software fences access to LUNs based upon host WWNs.
Under this innovative software structure, each of multiple host systems may have its own
unique LUN 0, from which it can boot, within its own Host Storage Domain.
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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 cover of this guide), depending on connectivity and capacity needs. A
Control Frame serves as the control center of each system and manages up to four Array
Frames that are connected via high-speed Fibre Channel links. A fully configured system is
contained in five cabinets 73.2 inches high, 148.9 inches wide, and 31.5 inches deep.
Lightning 9980V System Control Frame
The Control Frame of the Lightning 9980V system contains the Service Processor,
Client Host Interface Processor modules (CHIPs) with Fibre Channel adapters, ESCON
adapters, and/or FICON™adapters, Cache Modules, Cache Switch Modules (CSWs), Array
Control Processor modules (ACPs), power supplies, and battery modules. An illustration of
the Control Frame is shown in Figure 8.
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Figure 8 – A Lightning
9980V system Control
Frame and its major
components.
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Figure 9 – A Lightning
9980V system Array
Frame with its major
components.
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 1024
drives for a maximum configured system. An Array Frame is shown in Figure 9.
This design allows for efficient centralized and consolidated storage, which results in
reduced management costs and lower overall TCO.
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The Lightning 9900 V Series power systems consist of redundant power supplies in
both Control Frames and Array Frames. The power supplies are both hot pluggable and hot
swappable and are N+1 redundant. This means they can be removed or installed during
system operation and, if a power supply fails during operation, the failed power can be
dynamically removed without any loss to system operation. The Lightning 9900 V Series
power supply modules are shown in Figure 10.
Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series Pa c k a g i n g
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 world.
Figure 10 – Power
supply modules for the
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems.
Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9970V™System Packaging
Although the Lightning 9980V system has the ability to be upgraded from one to four
array frames, the Lightning 9970V™system is a fixed-configuration, single-cabinet storage
system. The Lightning 9970V system is targeted for IT environments where floorspace is at
a premium and data growth is limited, yet where premium storage functionality is required.
From the front, the Lightning 9970V system looks very much like the Control Frame of a
Lightning 9980V model. However, the back end contains HDD arrays housing up to 128
disks in a 73.2 inch high, 30.8 inch wide, and 31.5 inch deep footprint. This is shown in
Figure 11.
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Figure 11 – A Lightning
9970V system singlecabinet storage system.
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems have both a
predictive maintenance
and a failure alert
system.
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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 failure, fan speed, power,
voltages, and temperature, to ensure trouble-free operation. This network not only provides
for efficient predictive maintenance (replacing a component before it fails), but also for the
failure alert system to expedite system repair after a component has failed. This information
is passed to the Control Frame, where it can be viewed either locally by the Service
Processor (SVP) or remotely by the Hitachi Resource Manager™storage package across a
private LAN on a UNIX®or Microsoft®Windows NT®console. Users can view failure
information via SNMP or IBM®S/390®SIMs. System status and alerts are also sent to
Hitachi Data Systems Customer Support Centers via the Hi-Track®“call-home” software
facility.
Front-end Design of the
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Hitachi Freedom Storage
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Lightning 9900
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™- compatible platforms as shown in
Figure 12.
V Series
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Figure 12 – Fibre
Channel and ESCON or
FICON adapter boards
connect to open systems
and mainframe
computers.
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Figure 13 – A 2Gbit/sec
Fibre Channel host
adapter board and its
major hardware
components.
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 of
2Gbit/sec (gigabits/second) in conformance with the Fibre Channel standard. An optional
eight-port Fibre Channel Interface Board is also available.
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With the Lightning 9900 V Series industry-leading implementation of “virtual” Fibre
Channel ports, each interface card is equivalent to multiple interface cards in competitive
systems. Each interface card also contains Oracle®checksum dedicated hardware logic.
Front-end Design of the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Se r i e s
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 14. A FICON interface
board has a similar appearance. The FICON interface card is available with 1Gbit/sec or
2Gbit/sec transfer rates.
Figure 14 – An ESCON
host adapter board and
its major hardware
components.
A Lightning 9900 V Series system can connect to both mainframe and open system
hosts, thereby consolidating the storage for an enterprise under one roof for consistent
performance, availability, and ease of management. This is shown in Figure 15.
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Figure 15 – The
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems support both
mainframe and open
system hosts.
Table 2 – Bandwidth of
supported interfaces of
the Lightning 9900 V
Series.
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
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Number of Host Interfaces Supported
Up to 64 Fibre Channel, 48 ESCON, or 32 FICON ports are available on the
Lightning 9980V™system and up to 24 on the Lightning 9970V™system. Only 2 ACP
pairs are sequenced on the Lightning 9980V system for 48 ESCON ports.
Types of Hosts Supported with Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the
Lightning 9900 V Series Systems
The Lightning 9900 V Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe
hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900 V Series supports direct Fibre
Channel host attachment to all major open systems and mainframe platforms as listed
below:
• Microsoft®Windows NT
• Microsoft Windows®2000
• HP-UX
• Solaris™(Sun™)
• AIX®32 and 64 bit (IBM®)
• NetWare®(Novell®)
• Linux®(United Linux®, Red Hat®, SuSE®, Turbolinux®)
• IRIX®(SGI™)
• Tru64™UNIX®(HP®)
• OpenVMS™(HP®)
• DYNIX/ptx®(IBM®)
• Mainframes (MVS®, VSE®, VM®, OS/390®, zOS®,,Linux®)
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