Hitachi STORAGE 9900 - Manual (Page 26)

Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces
The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900 V Series is shown in
Table 2.
Supported Interface Bandwidth
Fibre Channel Adapters 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
ESCON ® Adapters 17.5MB/sec
FICON ™ Adapters 100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
Number of Host Interfaces Supported
Up to 64 Fibre Channel, 48 ESCON, or 32 FICON ports are available on the
Lightning 9980V ™ system and up to 24 on the Lightning 9970V ™ system. Only 2 ACP
pairs are sequenced on the Lightning 9980V system for 48 ESCON ports.
Types of Hosts Supported with Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by the
Lightning 9900 V Series Systems
The Lightning 9900 V Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe
hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900 V Series supports direct Fibre
Channel host attachment to all major open systems and mainframe platforms as listed
below:
• Microsoft ® Windows NT ®
• Microsoft Windows ® 2000
• HP-UX ®
• Solaris ™ (Sun ™ )
• AIX ® 32 and 64 bit (IBM ® )
• NetWare ® (Novell ® )
• Linux ® (United Linux ® , Red Hat ® , SuSE ® , Turbolinux ® )
• IRIX ® (SGI ™ )
• Tru64 ™ UNIX ® (HP ® )
• OpenVMS ™ (HP ® )
• DYNIX/ptx ® (IBM ® )
• Mainframes (MVS ® , VSE ® , VM ® , OS/390 ® , zOS ® , , Linux ® )
Figure 15 – The
Lightning 9900 V Series
systems support both
mainframe and open
system hosts.
Table 2 – Bandwidth of
supported interfaces of
the Lightning 9900 V
Series.
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