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A dvanced Cache Algorithms of the Lightning 9900 V Series ....................................................................18 H itachi FlashAccess Software Allows Data Sets to be Permanently Placed in Cache ................................18 Read-ahead for High-performance Sequential Reads .
Chapter 9 – Hitachi F reedom Storage Software Solutions Are Best of Breed ______________________33 Hitachi F reedom Storage Software Solutions Simplifies Information Management, P rotects Data Assets, and Optimizes Storage Investments ..............
Chapter 11 – Optimizing Performance, Availability, and Cost with the H iReturn Investment Analysis T ool Kit ________________________________________49 HiReturn Investment Analysis T ool Kit ..........................................................
T able of Figures F igure 1 The Lightning 9980V system pr o vides for exploding gr owth and data hyper-consolidation while the Lightning 9970V system pr ovides for managed gr owth and open systems exploitation. ........................................
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1 I ntroduction Red ef ini ng the In du stry Stan dar d, O nce Ag ain Hitachi Data Systems, in presenting the Hitachi F reedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V S eries internal switched storage architecture with virtual Fibre Channel switches, again r edefines the industry standard for “best-of-breed” storage systems.
Li ghtn in g 9900 V Ser ie s Pro duc t Of f 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 .
An Over vi ew of the Ligh tni ng 9900 V Ser ies Ar c h i t e c t u re The Lightning 9900 V Series intelligent storage systems are the most po werful enterprise systems in the industry today and two generations ahead of the competition.
The main components that make up the Lightning 9900 V Series systems are the Array Control Pr ocessor modules (ACPs) and Host Adapter modules, called Channel Host Interface Pr ocessors (CHIPs).
• S eparate storage for control and configuration tables • M irrored cache instead of single image cache 2 • O ffered by Hitachi Data Systems, the leading supplier of storage systems for geograp.
Seco nd -ge ner ati on “V irtual ” Swit ched Stor ag e An important key to lo wer TCO is the Lightning 9900 V Series “virtual” Fibr e Channel ports.
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 failo v er and clustered environments.
The Lightning 9900 V Series pr ovides “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” F ibre Channel port (Fig.
9 H itachi F r eedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series P ackaging Th e Hit achi Fr eed om Sto ra ge Ligh t ning 9 980V ™ Sy ste m Pa ckagi ng The Lightning 9980V system is available in a two-to-five cabinet configuration (as shown on the co v er of this guide), depending on connectivity and capacity needs.
Li ghtn in g 9980 V Syst em Arr ay Frame s 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.
Cables carry 48-volt main system po w er from the back of the Control Frame and Array F rame where the po w er is converted to the required voltages. Different AC pow er cord options allow all Lightning 9900 V Series models to connect with the different electrical outlet configurations used around the world.
Th e Sy stem Moni tori ng Ne two rk of the Lig htnin g 9 900 V Ser ies Lightning 9900 V Series systems are designed with a system-monitoring network. The system-monitoring cables are connected to all .
13 F ront-end Design of the H itachi F r eedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series CH IPs S uppor t Fi bre Chan nel Hos t and ESC ON ® or FICON ™ H o s t Co nne cti vity and Sca labi l ity The .
Abo ut th e Fibr e Ch ann el Inte rf ace Bo ar d s Each Fibre Channel Interface Board, as shown in Figure 13, has four Interface Pr ocessors 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.
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.
Ba ndwi dth of Suppo rt ed Hos t Int erf ace s Th e band width of inte rfa ces su pport ed by the Lig htnin g 9900 V Seri es is sh own in T a ble 2. Supported Interface Bandwidth Fibre Channel Adapters 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec ESCON ® Adapters 17.
17 H i-Star ™ Architecture – An I nternal Switched H ierarchical Star Networ k Th e In te rnal Hi- Sta r ™ A rc h i t e c t u r e The internal Hi-Star architecture consists of two separate networks: the Cache Hierarchical Star Network (C-HSN) and the Control Memory Hierarchical Star Networ k (CM-HSN).
Th e Ca che Sw it ch Pr ov ide s Non- bl ocki ng Swit ched Acc ess to Cache A t the heart of the Lightning 9900 V Series are four Cache Switches (CSWs). T ogether, these four switches (in the Lightning 9980V ™ system) use a parallel switch fabric bus (PSFB).
mirrored images of each other . This is illustrated in Figure 17. Control data is “data about data,” also called “metadata. ” Essentially, control information is handled “ out of band” from the data paths, both through a separate memory area and network.
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21 H igh-performance Back-end Design Hig h- spee d All Fib r e Cha nne l Back -end Des ign S pecial high-performance back-end drives are available with the Hitachi F reedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series. All the drives are 3.5" Low P rofile (LP) 1"-height form factor with capacities available in 36GB, 73GB, and 146GB drives.
Ma ximu m Con fig ur ati on of ACP s and Di sk s The maximum configuration of four ACPs and 16 Fibre Channel loops is shown in F igure 19. New Fi br e Cha nne l Dis k Driv es The back-end of the Lightning 9900 V Series uses dual ported/dual active Fibre Channel disk drives.
23 Capacities and RAID Architectur e St orag e Capa c it y of the Hita chi Fr eedo m Stor age ™ Lig htn in g 9900 ™ V Seri es The Lightning 9900 ™ V Series supports an unmatched range of capacities as shown in T able 3.
Hi gh- dens it y Dis k Dr ive (H DD) Asse mbli es The disk drives used in the Lightning 9900 V Series are specially designed for high availability and performance. Each drive has the industry unique feature of supporting dual active ports. This pr ovides significantly increased performance.
H itachi F r eedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series A vailability Is Highest in the I ndustr y An Ov e rv iew o f Hi gh- ava ila bi lit y ( HA) Co mpu t i ng So f tw ar e I t is increasingly important for a business to support continued access to global information 24/7.
• D ual data paths and dual control paths connecting every component • M irrored cache for all write data instead of single image cache 4 • IBM ® Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex ™ (.
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 V Series supports each classification of middleware:.
Pa ra lle l Da tab a se Cl ust e ri ng This type of middleware is a special version of host failo ver middleware, which supports major parallel database ser vers like Oracle ® P arallel Ser ver, Informix ® XPS, and Sybase ® MPP.
29 Hitachi Fr eedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series A v ailability is Highest in the Industry S t a n d a r d Re d un d an t Fan s fo r Co o li ng The Lightning 9900 V Series pr o vides fully redundant fans for uninterrupted cooling to all components of the system.
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31 U nmatched Performance and Scalability T ruly Sca labl e Pe rform a nce Based on the internal switched Hi-Star ™ architecture, the Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series shows unmatched performance scalability.
ov ershot the targeted transfer rate for the DSS system by appr o ximately 50MB/sec. This was managed by using Hitachi Priority Access software to limit the throughput for a particular application. At this point, the two OLTP workloads were still able to sustain their 2200TPM each, or 4400TPM aggregate.
H itachi F r eedom Storage ™ S oftware Solutions Ar e Best-of-B r eed Customers and analysts regard the Hitachi F reedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V S eries as the most advanced products in the enterprise storage system market.
Hi tac hi Dat a S y s t e m s 34 Storage Area Management Suite HiCommand ™ Management Framework ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ - HiCommand Device Manager ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ - HiCommand Tuning Manager ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ .
policy-driven automated management across the entire life cycle of shared storage services, ranging from planning, implementation, and pr o visioning, to monitoring. Business Continuity Suite A well-planned business continuity strategy is essential if an organization is to survive planned or unplanned downtime.
information and performance levels. The Hi-Track "call home" predictive maintenance system is based on intelligent software that monitors a Lightning 9900 V Series system and notifies the Hitachi Data Systems support center for preventative maintenance.
S eries’ systems, Priority Access software and Host Storage Domains guarantee that the most crucial applications get the highest level of service. FlashAccess allows users to quickly and easily lock and unlock information into cache in real time.
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their storage environments than they have ever had in the past. H o wever, most storage managers are faced with administering a myriad of existing components and ne w , complex storage topologies, which lack a clear and consolidated approach to management.
based on a combination of Hitachi products and best-of-breed storage hardware and software. Likewise, Device Manager software is customizable to integrate easily with existing infrastructures and accommodate future gr owth plans.
common model with which all vendors can work. A CIM-enabled storage management environment will deliver significant benefits to customers, including the ability to: 1.
Over vi ew of Ho w the Sys tem s Man age ment So ft war e Su ppo rts Bus in ess Ob ject ives T o be successful in today ’ s business environment, companies must attain the highest levels of business agility, with maximum IT system efficiency and performance.
systems, and the user ’ s intranet (public LAN), which allows users to access the Resource Manager software package. 2 . S NM P Su pp or t En s ur es Co mpl i an c e w it h A ll M aj or Sy st em s- m a na ge m en t Pl at fo rm s The Resource Manager software package supports Simple Networ k Management P r otocol (SNMP).
the operating system as a single, large LUN. This capability simplifies storage management because there are fe wer LUNs to manage. T wo levels of passwor d protection, user and administrator, ensure maximum data security.
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 a particular HSD. SANtinel software may be further used to permit or deny a particular host to access individual LUNs within the HSD, based upon the WWN of the host.
performed at cache speeds, with no disk latency delay . With FlashAccess software, a portion of cache memory can be allocated to specific data. Users can add, delete, or change FlashAccess software managed data at any time, quickly and easily .
scrutinizes activity all the way to the logical-device level, reporting on channel- interface-processor usage rates, cache-usage rate by function, and logical-device utilization. This data pinpoints specific activities that may have a negative impact on operations, and lets the user fine-tune the system so that it can be used to maximum advantage.
O ptimizing Performance, A vailability , and Cost with the HiReturn ™ I nvestment Analysis T ool Kit HiReturn ™ Investment Analysis Tool Kit M ost enterprises today require that financial investment analysis be prepared prior to IT capital expenditures.
Phase 3 – Final report. The HiReturn team provides a business Financial Impact R eport that summarizes the ROI findings of the assessment and outlines the suggested strategy, along with other key recommendations.
Global Solutions Services Hi ta ch i D at a Sy ste ms I s C on sis t en t ly R a nk e d Nu mb er On e in th e Ind us tr y In numerous independent sur v eys on IT services organizations, Hitachi Data Systems continually wins the highest ratings in terms of o v erall customer satisfaction.
G lobal Solutions Services team start by unco v ering the complexity of an individual organization ’ s storage environment in order to define a baseline deployment. Using baseline objectives, the consultants then plan and implement a P A THLINE management environment.
Hitachi SplitSecond ™ Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft ® Exchange The Hitachi SplitSecond ™ Solutions Rapid Recovery Service for Microsoft ® Exchange employs hardware and software .
Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON ™ The Hitachi Data Systems Infrastructure Planning Service for FICON ™ is an on-site, implementation planning and training start up service designed to accelerate the installation of a FICON solution.
55 Glossary of T erms 10BaseT E thernet 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 physical access of the disk drives across four FC-AL loops.
A vailability I n computer science, availability refers to the degree to which a system or resource is capable of performing its normal function. A vailability is measured in terms of Mean T ime Between Failure (MTBF) divided by MTBF plus the Mean T ime to Repair (MTTR).
CHA Channel Host Adapter . CHIP Channel Host Interface P rocessor . C–HSN Cache Hierarchical Star Network. CHT Channel adapter T achyon (for Fibre Channel interfaces). Client/Server Architectur e Client/Serv er Architecture is a network architecture in which each computer or processor on the network is either a client or a ser ver.
CT Q Command-Tag Queuing. DA The Data Adapter resides on the CHT and connects the cache boards to the front end. DAS Direct Attached Storage. Data Availability D ata availability refers to the degree to which a computer system is capable of pro viding data to its users.
DRR Data Recovery and Regeneration. DSS D ecision Support Systems is a term that refers to computer systems used in the areas of business intelligence, such as data warehousing, data mining, OLAP, and others. DT A Data Adapter . ECC Error correction code.
eXtended SCSI Copy (e-Copy) E xtended SCSi is a command in the SCSI 3 specification that allows for the transfer of data without the involvement of the ser ver . The Hitachi Freedom Storage ™ Lightning 9900 ™ V Series implements this command, which is used by programs such as VERITAS ® N etBackup ™ to enable ser verless and LANfree backup .
F reedom Data Networks ™ H itachi Data Systems groups its storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) solutions under the label F reedom Data Networks.
Gigabit Ethernet Pr o vides a standard that supports data transfer at 1000Mbit/sec. Gigabit Ethernet is also called 1000BaseT Category 5 (copper wire) or 1000BaseX (fiber optic). There is a 10,000BaseT version of the Ethernet standard that will be widely available by early 2003.
Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager ™ Dynamic Link Manager is a ser v er-based family of software utilities that enhances RAID systems by pr oviding automatic failo v er and load balancing from ser ver-to- RAID channel connection failures.
Hitachi Multiplatform Resource Sharing M ultiplatform Resource Sharing is built right into the Lightning 9900 V Series systems. W ith Multiplatform Resource Sharing, Lightning 9900 V Series systems users can share resources between UNIX ® or Microsoft ® Windows NT ® /Windows ® 2000 serv ers and S/390 mainframe platforms.
Hitachi T rueCopy ™ T rueCopy pro vides synchronous or asynchronous remote copy capability for open system and S/390 computers. This allows remote copies o ver virtually unlimited distances.
InterSan ® P athline ® InterSAN Inc.’ s Storage Area Management (SAM) software product P A THLINE is the first application-based SAM software that aligns the management of storage networks with business policies and objectives.
Logical Unit Number See LUN. Logical V olume The storage medium associated with a logical disk drive. A logical volume typically r esides on one or more storage devices. A host system sees a logical volume as a physical volume, although it does not correlate directly with a physical disk drive.
M etadata D ata about data as used by the CM-HSM and the Control Memory Subsystem of the Lightning 9900 V Series. Mirrored Pair T wo disk units or logical units that contain the same data. The operating system software refers to them as one entity and “ reads from either” and “writes to both” when RAID-1 is enabled.
NDMP N etwork Data Management Pr otocol (NDMP) is a standard protocol for network- based backup of network-attached storage. NDMP hides the unique hardware interfaces from third-party backup software that allows this software to execute on any NDMP compliant system on the network.
Operating system The operating system is the most important software program that runs on a computer . The operating system (OS) performs basic tasks such as recognizing input from a keyboard, sending.
RAID R edundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is used to increase the reliability of disk arrays by pr o viding redundancy either through complete duplication of the data (RAID-1, i.e., mirroring) or through construction of parity data for each data stripe in the array (RAID-3, -4, -5).
SCSI S mall Computer System Interface. An intelligent bus-level interface that defines a standard I/O bus and a set of high-level I/O commands. There are currently many flavors of SCSI defined by different bus widths and clock speeds.
Sw i t c h A switch is a network device that examines and forwards packets between LAN segments. Synchronous S ynchronous communications occur when the transmission of data between two devices is synchronized with a clocking scheme or other technique.
V olume An IBM ® ESA/390 ® term for the information recorded on a single disk unit or r ecording medium. Indirectly, a volume can refer to the unit of recording medium itself. On a non-remov able medium storage device such as a disk drive, the terms may also refer, indirectly, to the storage device that is associated with the volume.
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