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Hitachi STORAGE 9900 User Manual

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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.

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Figure 6 – Heterogeneous
solutions today.