Hitachi STORAGE 9900 Bedienungsanleitung

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1Introduction Redefining the Industry Standard, Once AgainHitachi Data Systems, in presenting the Hitachi Freedom Storage™Lightning 9900™VSeries inter

Lightning 9900 V Series Product Off e r i n g sThe Lightning 9900 V Series offers two models – the Lightning 9980V™and theLightning 9970V™. The Lightn

An Overview of the Lightning 9900 V Series Arc h i t e c t u reThe Lightning 9900 V Series intelligent storage systems are the most powerfulenterprise

The main components that make up the Lightning 9900 V Series systems are theArray Control Processor modules (ACPs) and Host Adapter modules, called Ch

• Separate storage for control and configuration tables• Mirrored cache instead of single image cache2• Offered by Hitachi Data Systems, the leading s

Second-generation “Virtual” Switched StorageAn important key to lower TCO is the Lightning 9900 V Series “virtual” FibreChannel ports. Virtualization

As shown in Figure 6, the heterogeneous solutions of today require the separateconfiguration of physical ports for each host platform type supported,

The Lightning 9900 V Series provides “virtual” Fibre Channel ports that are logicallymanaged by intelligent Fibre Channel controller cards. Each physi

9Hitachi Freedom Storage™Lightning 9900™V SeriesPackaging The Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9980V™System PackagingThe Lightning 9980V system is av

Lightning 9980V System Array FramesEach array frame of the Lightning 9980V system contains up to 256 Hard Disk Drive(HDD) modules and communication in

Cables carry 48-volt main system power from the back of the Control Frame and ArrayFrame where the power is converted to the required voltages.Differe

The System Monitoring Network of the Lightning 9900 V SeriesLightning 9900 V Series systems are designed with a system-monitoring network. Thesystem-m

13Front-end Design of theHitachi Freedom Storage™Lightning 9900™V SeriesCHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON®or FICON™H o s tConnectivity and Sc

About the Fibre Channel Interface Board sEach Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 13, has four InterfaceProcessors for management of con

There are four ports for each interface board or a total of 32 host interfaces for a fullyconfigured system. An ESCON interface board is shown in Figu

Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900 V Series is shown in Table 2.Supported Interface Ba

17Hi-Star™Architecture – AnInternal SwitchedHierarchical Star NetworkThe Internal Hi-Star™A rc h i t e c t u reThe internal Hi-Star architecture consi

The Cache Switch Provides Non-blocking Switched Access to CacheAt the heart of the Lightning 9900 V Series are four Cache Switches (CSWs).Together, th

mirrored images of each other. This is illustrated in Figure 17. Control data is “data aboutdata,” also called “metadata.” Essentially, control inform

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21High-performance Back-endDesign High-speed All Fibre Channel Back-end DesignSpecial high-performance back-end drives are available with the Hitachi

Maximum Configuration of ACPs and DisksThe maximum configuration of four ACPs and 16 Fibre Channel loops is shown in Figure 19.New Fibre Channel Disk

23Capacities and RAIDArchitectureStorage Capacity of the Hitachi Freedom Storage™Lightning 9900™ V SeriesThe Lightning 9900™V Series supports an unmat

High-density Disk Drive (HDD) AssembliesThe disk drives used in the Lightning 9900 V Series are specially designed for highavailability and performanc

Hitachi Freedom Storage™Lightning 9900™V SeriesAvailability Is Highest in theIndustryAn Overview of High-availability (HA) Computing Software It is in

• Dual data paths and dual control paths connecting every component• Mirrored cache for all write data instead of single image cache4• IBM®Geographica

There are four basic types of high-availability middleware that can reduce downtime inthe event of a data path or host failure. The Lightning 9900 V S

Parallel Database ClusteringThis type of middleware is a special version of host failover middleware, which supports major parallel database servers l

29Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series Availability is Highest in the IndustryS t a n d a r d Redundant Fans for CoolingThe Lightning 9900

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31Unmatched Performanceand ScalabilityTruly Scalable PerformanceBased on the internal switched Hi-Star™architecture, the Hitachi Freedom Storage™Light

overshot the targeted transfer rate for the DSS system by approximately 50MB/sec. Thiswas managed by using Hitachi Priority Access software to limit t

Hitachi Freedom Storage™Software Solutions AreBest-of-BreedCustomers and analysts regard the Hitachi Freedom Storage™Lightning 9900™VSeries as the mos

Hitachi Data Sy s t e m s34Storage Area Management SuiteHiCommand™Management Framework✔ ✔ ✔ ✔- HiCommand Device Manager✔ ✔ ✔ ✔- HiCommand Tuning Manag

policy-driven automated management across the entire life cycle of shared storage services,ranging from planning, implementation, and provisioning, to

information and performance levels. The Hi-Track "call home" predictive maintenancesystem is based on intelligent software that monitors a L

Series’ systems, Priority Access software and Host Storage Domains guarantee that the mostcrucial applications get the highest level of service. Flash

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The Hi C o m m a n d™Management Fr a m ew o rk andHitachi Re s o u r ce Ma n a g e r™System Management So f t w a r eA Powerful and Open Systems Manag

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their storage environments than they have ever had in the past. However, most storagemanagers are faced with administering a myriad of existing compon

based on a combination of Hitachi products and best-of-breed storage hardware andsoftware. Likewise, Device Manager software is customizable to integr

common model with which all vendors can work. A CIM-enabled storage managementenvironment will deliver significant benefits to customers, including th

Overview of How the Systems Management Software SupportsBusiness ObjectivesTo be successful in today’s business environment, companies must attain the

systems, and the user’s intranet (public LAN), which allows users to access theResource Manager software package.2. SNMP Support Ensures Compliance wi

the operating system as a single, large LUN. This capability simplifies storagemanagement because there are fewer LUNs to manage. Two levels of passwo

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 aparticular HS

performed at cache speeds, with no disk latency delay. With FlashAccess software,a portion of cache memory can be allocated to specific data. Users ca

scrutinizes activity all the way to the logical-device level, reporting on channel-interface-processor usage rates, cache-usage rate by function, and

Optimizing Performance,Availability, and Cost withthe HiReturn™InvestmentAnalysis Tool KitHiReturn™Investment Analysis Tool KitMost enterprises today

Advanced Cache Algorithms of the Lightning 9900 V Series...18Hitachi FlashAccess Soft

Phase 3 – Final report. The HiReturn team provides a business Financial Impact Report that summarizes the ROI findings of the assessment and outlines

Global Solutions ServicesHitachi Data Systems Is Consistently Ranked Number One in the IndustryIn numerous independent surveys on IT services organiza

Global Solutions Services team start by uncovering the complexity of an individualorganization’s storage environment in order to define a baseline dep

Hitachi SplitSecond™Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft®ExchangeThe Hitachi SplitSecond™Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft®Exch

Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON™The Hitachi Data Systems Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON ™is an on-site,implementation planning an

55Glossary of Terms10BaseTEthernet with a data transfer rate of 10Mbits/sec.100BaseTAlso known as Fast Ethernet with a data transfer rate of 100Mbits/

Availability In computer science, availability refers to the degree to which a system or resource iscapable of performing its normal function. Availab

CHA Channel Host Adapter.CHIP Channel Host Interface Processor.C–HSN Cache Hierarchical Star Network.CHT Channel adapter Tachyon (for Fibre Channel in

CTQCommand-Tag Queuing.DA The Data Adapter resides on the CHT and connects the cache boards to the front end.DAS Direct Attached Storage.Data Availabi

DRR Data Recovery and Regeneration.DSS Decision Support Systems is a term that refers to computer systems used in the areas ofbusiness intelligence, s

Chapter 9 – Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Are Best of Breed ______________________33Hitachi Freedom Storage Software Solutions Simplifies

eXtended SCSI Copy (e-Copy)Extended SCSi is a command in the SCSI 3 specification that allows for the transfer ofdata without the involvement of the s

Freedom Data Networks™Hitachi Data Systems groups its storage area network (SAN) and network attachedstorage (NAS) solutions under the label Freedom D

Gigabit Ethernet Provides a standard that supports data transfer at 1000Mbit/sec. Gigabit Ethernet isalso called 1000BaseT Category 5 (copper wire) or

Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager™Dynamic Link Manager is a server-based family of software utilities that enhancesRAID systems by providing automatic fail

Hitachi Multiplatform Resource Sharing Multiplatform Resource Sharing is built right into the Lightning 9900 V Seriessystems. With Multiplatform Resou

Hitachi TrueCopy™TrueCopy provides synchronous or asynchronous remote copy capability for opensystem and S/390 computers. This allows remote copies ov

InterSan®Pathline®InterSAN Inc.’s Storage Area Management (SAM) software product PATHLINE is thefirst application-based SAM software that aligns the m

Logical Unit Number See LUN.Logical Volume The storage medium associated with a logical disk drive. A logical volume typicallyresides on one or more s

Metadata Data about data as used by the CM-HSM and the Control Memory Subsystem of theLightning 9900 V Series.Mirrored Pair Two disk units or logical

NDMP Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) is a standard protocol for network-based backup of network-attached storage. NDMP hides the unique hardwa

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Operating system The operating system is the most important software program that runs on acomputer. The operating system (OS) performs basic tasks su

RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is used to increase the reliability of diskarrays by providing redundancy either through complete dupl

SCSI Small Computer System Interface. An intelligent bus-level interface that defines astandard I/O bus and a set of high-level I/O commands. There ar

Switch A switch is a network device that examines and forwards packets between LANsegments.Synchronous Synchronous communications occur when the trans

Volume An IBM®ESA/390®term for the information recorded on a single disk unit orrecording medium. Indirectly, a volume can refer to the unit of record

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Table of FiguresFigure 1 The Lightning 9980V system provides for exploding growth and data hyper-consolidationwhile the Lightning 9970V system provide