The Lightning 9900™ V Array Subsystem - Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V series Configuration Manual

1.2 The Lightning 9900™ V Array Subsystem
The Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V RAID subsystem supports concurrent attachment to multiple
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UNIX -based and PC-server platforms. Please contact your Hitachi Data Systems account
team for the latest information on platform support. The 9900V subsystem provides
continuous data availability, high-speed response, scaleable connectivity, and expandable
capacity for PC server and open-system storage. The 9900V subsystem can operate with
multihost applications and host clusters, and is designed to handle very large databases as
well as data warehousing and data mining applications that store and retrieve terabytes of
data.
The Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V subsystem can be configured with fibre-channel, FICON™,
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and/or ExSA™ (Extended Serial Adapter™) ports to provide connectivity with S/390
mainframe hosts as well as open-system hosts. For further information on the 9900V
subsystem, please refer to the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900™ V User and
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Reference Guide (MK-92RD100), or contact your Hitachi Data Systems account team.
For further information on the 9900V subsystem, please refer to the Hitachi Lightning 9900™
V Series User and Reference Guide (MK-92RD100), or contact your Hitachi Data Systems
account team, or visit Hitachi Data Systems online (http://www.hds.com).
Note on the term "SCSI disk": The 9900V logical devices are defined to the host as SCSI disk
devices, even though the interface is fibre-channel.
Hitachi Lightning 9900™ V Series Red Hat Linux Configuration Guide 2
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