Hitachi Freedom Storage

Hitachi RAID - Lightning 9900 V Series

The second generation: Exploiting the power of intelligent storage to simplify management.

How do you simplify your storage infrastructure, protect your valuable information, and optimize your resources so that you can fully leverage your enterprise's knowledge capital? How do you ensure that your data is available 24/7 even when it's quickly outstripping your resources? How can you establish a flexible and quickly scalable infrastructure that will allow you to deploy new strategic applications easily?

hitachi RAID, 9900 V The Lightning 9900 V Series is designed specifically to serve as the foundation for intelligent pooling of storage resources and breakthrough simplification through massive consolidation. Bringing new levels of availability and performance, the Lightning 9900 V Series, combined with advanced storage applications, storage area networking technologies, and the HiCommand management framework, delivers the information infrastructure you need to gain a competitive advantage.

Introducing the next-generation intelligent storage systems with world-class benefits: Simplified infrastructure and management. Protection for your critical information. Optimized resource utilization.

A reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and a more rapid return on investment (ROI).

Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9970V and Lightning 9980V—Benefits

Simplify management and provide high availability to internal operations

Consolidate systems and pool storage resources
Scalable with non-disruptive expansion to over 70TB
Global 24/7/forever availability
Industry-leading performance driven by our second-generation Hi-Star switched architecture
Over 15GB/sec aggregate internal system bandwidth
Single system management through virtualization-enabled functions
Concurrent UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT/Windows 2000, Linux, Novell NetWare, OpenVMS, TPF, and OS/390 connectivity

Protect your business continuity and grow sales with built-in backup

100% data availability guarantee
Instant, user-defined point-in-time copies—recover quickly from disasters
Non-disruptive, real-time copies for backups, application testing, and data warehousing/data mining
Off-site redundancy with complete data integrity
“Server-less” any-to-any copies
Tapeless data vaulting
Power to speed up complex decision support queries
Real-time analysis of customer behavior

Optimize resources, increase your ROI with massive consolidation and simplified management for a reduced TCO

Multi-dimensional scalability, including capacity, bandwidth, connectivity, workload mix, and embedded applications
Investment protection—connect Lightning 9960 array frames to Lightning 9980V control frames
Centralized storage management with the HiCommand Management Framework—open, extensible, modular storage management software based on industry standards:
- Seamless integration of best-of-breed products
- Policy-based automation
- Manages multi-vendor storage systems from any location
Multiprotocol compatibility—Fibre Channel, FICON, and ESCON
Simplified heterogeneous host access to dynamic storage pools
Easy convergence of SAN and NAS
Reduced licensing and maintenance costs
Set-and-forget management

Count on exceptional service and support
Survey by FIND/SVP places Hitachi Data Systems Number One in overall service and support as well as technical performance

The Lightning 9900 V Series, with built-in virtualization-enabled functions, is designed specifically to serve as the foundation for your information infrastructure. These unique systems are made for intelligent pooling of storage resources and breakthrough simplification of complex infrastructures. Their broad capabilities allow for massive consolidation, flexible capacity, extreme bandwidth, and native connectivity/protocol options—while actually reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerating your return on investment (ROI).

Information, and the ability to collect, analyse, and act on it quickly, are the enablers for success.

The world’s economy presents all of us with once unimagined challenges—and opportunities. Both are often accompanied by billions of transactions and enormous amounts of text, video, graphical, and audio data that are transferred every day, and growing exponentially. Just adding more storage is not the answer.

Now is the time to take a long-term look at your IT environment. Control is within reach. Start with a storage platform that combines power and intelligence to simplify, protect, and optimize—putting you in charge, instead of at the mercy of a reluctant information infrastructure.

The Lightning 9970V and Lightning 9980V systems are powered by our second-generation Hi-Star switched architecture. In fact, today’s bottleneck-free Lightning 9980V system is twice as powerful, provides twice the cache, and offers twice the capacity of the first Lightning 9900 Series generation.

Simplify

Choosing the system that’s best for your operations
The Lightning 9900 V Series supports both open systems and S/390 servers simultaneously in direct attached or networked configurations, allowing you to choose the optimal server for your applications. The Lightning 9900 V Series is available in two models: the Lightning 9970V and the Lightning 9980V.

Lightning 9980V—the world’s first storage solution for massive consolidation.
The Lightning 9900 V Series, powered by the lightning-fast, Hi-Star switched architecture, removes the downtime and bottleneck risks normally associated with typical consolidated storage approaches.
The performance and scalability of the multi-cabinet Lightning 9980V system enables you to consolidate vast amounts of storage across open systems and mainframe servers. You can replace your previous storage systems with just one Lightning 9980V system, dramatically lowering your IT costs and extending your capital investment by consolidating storage resources and sharing information across disparate platforms.

Form centralized host group pools
Replace several systems with one to simplify and save
Reduce management tasks, lower staff costs

Lightning 9970V—a key piece for your enterprise infrastructure.
The Lightning 9970V system, with its open systems and OS/390 robust channel connectivity, offers you all the high-speed, high-availability characteristics of the advanced Lightning 9900 V Series in a single cabinet. This enables the Lightning 9970V system and its 9TB hot-swappable component design to play an important position in any number of environments. Assign the Lightning 9970V system to a typical storage role for sustained growth. Or, enact your essential distributed strategies for ensuring data replication, disaster recovery, and information sharing.

Deploy for truly manageable SAN strategies
Implement for disaster recovery assurance
Utilize for company-wide information sharing

Virtualization-enabled to reduce connectivity complexity

The new Lightning 9900 V Series systems offer a virtualization assist layer to ease storage management and better utilize resources. Host Storage Domains allows host pooling at the Logical Unit level, optimizing connectivity and reducing network infrastructure. Priority Access guarantees that your most critical applications get the highest level of service, while Hitachi SANtinel ensures authorized access.

The strategic combination—Host Storage Domains, Priority Access, and SANtinel—form the basis for a new virtualization assist layer within the Lightning 9900 V Series systems, clearing the way for massive consolidation and simplified infrastructure management. The Lightning 9980V and Lightning 9970V systems are open to dynamic resource and performance management, truly massive consolidation, plus compatibility with Hitachi and other vendor virtualization strategies.

Connectivity simplified for the future: ready for SAN, NAS, ESCON, and FICON
These days, a number of storage network protocols and connectivity methods are available to match application requirements. Whether Fibre Channel SANs, or gigabit Ethernet NAS for open systems and SAN interconnect, or ESCON and FICON for z/OS and S/390 mainframes, the Lightning 9900 V Series will support them all natively.

Backed by the Hi-Star switched architecture, end-to-end Fibre, and high-performance disks, the second-generation Lightning 9900 V Series systems easily handle simultaneous information access through multiple protocols and connections.

Manage it all with the HiCommand Management Framework
HiCommand software is the storage management framework that provides open and intuitive tools for streamlined storage management. With the HiCommand Management Framework, storage administrators can manage, monitor, and tune Lightning 9900 V Series, Lightning 9900 Series, Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9200, and Sun StorEdge storage systems via a single graphical user interface (GUI).
HiCommand Management Framework:

Protect Your Business-critical Information

100% data availability—guaranteed—a continuing tradition
With no single point of failure, both second-generation Lightning 9900 V Series systems provide business continuity capabilities that ensure seamless backup and rapid recovery, while reducing management complexity and costs. The resilient internal switched architecture combined with redundant, online replaceable active components and mirrored cache set the stage for non-disruptive service and 24/7/forever data protection. Building on this solid platform, our advanced copy software tools—Hitachi TrueCopy, Hitachi ShadowImage, and NanoCopy —plus proven support for GDPS, further ensure that your Lightning 9900 V Series system will keep your business running.

The Lightning 9900 V Series— an infrastructure solution that protects your data and your IT investment
The capacity to store your data—up to over 70TB. The speed to make it earn its keep. The Lightning 9900 V Series super carrier-class capabilities position it to handle enormous challenges. From this day forward, your information infrastructure can be designed to withstand the onslaught of strategic initiatives that will determine your company’s outcome while providing the rapid ROI management mandates.

Second-generation, high-speed switched architecture
Virtualization-enabling layer
Web-based management and Java SPI/RMI
Extended SCSI copy support
Network storage blades
Extended RAID group support
High-throughput 10,000RPM and 15,000RPM dual-ported Fibre Channel disk drives
32 concurrent data transfers
Fully addressable 64GB cache
Optional Hitachi FlashAccess permanently assigns LUNs or LVIs into cache
Extremely fast and intelligent cache algorithms
Flexible LUN support
Automated performance tuning
Support for Hitachi Parallel Access Volumes (HPAV) and Multiple Allegiance (MA)
Separate, redundant data and command path
Support of existing Lightning 9900 Series array frames and disks for investment protection

Optimize Resource Utilization

Use powerful Hitachi Freedom Storage Software to automate high performance and maintain your competitive edge
Companies continue to shift attention and resources in support of e-business efforts and breakthrough initiatives to better position themselves for the future. When it comes to achieving these corporate goals, downtime is the enemy. Adapt—or else.

It’s increasingly important to anticipate surges in customer requests and to adjust to sudden increases in user demand. Supported by the bottleneck-free archi-tecture of the Lightning 9900 V Series, Hitachi CruiseControl provides automatic self-tuning, eliminates “hot spots” through load balancing, and maintains predeter-mined performance levels. Hitachi FlashAccess brings lightning-fast speed to both Lightning 9900 V Series systems by “locking” (and unlocking) data into cache in real time with read and write functions performed at cache speeds without disk access delays. Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager takes high performance out to the paths by providing dynamic load balancing. These functions, coupled with the virtualization assist layer in the Lightning 9900 V Series systems, ensure maintenance-free performance for seamless scalability.

With the Lightning 9980V and Lightning 9970V systems, optimizing your resources ensures that a reduced TCO is part of the deal Simpler. Bigger. Faster. The next-generation Lightning 9980V and Lightning 9970V systems enable massive consolidation and centralization, resulting in newly simplified storage networking environments. Spend less time managing storage. Gain more time for planning and new business efforts. Reduced amount of software, less money spent on licensing and maintenance fees. The payback is visible on the IT floor and on the books.
> Fewer connections
> Fewer storage management activities
> Easy-to-handle, automated tools; staff can be assigned to other tasks
> Aggressive use of embedded software applications
> Reduced licensing and maintenance costs
> Improved capacity utilization; less equipment required; lower costs
> Reduced floor space, power, and cooling; reduced environmental expenses

Absolutely bottleneck-free, the Lightning 9900 V Series systems deliver optimum service— the experience your customers demand
Customers, partners, and employees have learned to expect instantaneous information access. With the Lightning 9900 V Series systems, you can give them what they want as you increase productivity, shorten time to market, and mitigate risk. The Lightning 9900 V Series systems, powered by the revolutionary Hi-Star switched architecture, are the world’s first truly bottleneck-free carrier-class storage systems that support a “no wait” experience.

The second-generation Hi-Star switched architecture lets you scale infinitely— without slowing down. As the need for capacity increases, both Lightning 9900 V Series systems leverage your initial investment and scale up seamlessly without disrupting mission-critical business applications. Unlike traditional shared-bus technology, the Hi-Star internal switched architecture lets you add capacity without affecting performance. This means faster information access and faster conversion of information to knowledge that you can act on. And, more time for you to make decisions.