Hitachi Disk Products/Software
Lightning 9900™ V Series Enterprise Storage Systems
The Hitachi Lightning 9900 V Series offers a storage platform that enables customers to simplify their infrastructures through massive consolidation. Combined with Hitachi storage software and the HiCommand® Storage Area Management Suite, these systems meet business application requirements for the highest levels of availability, scalability, and performance while supporting “set and forget” management, protecting data assets, and optimizing resources.
The Lightning 9900 V Series is powered by the Hi-Star™ crossbar switched architecture. That means no single point of failure and instant data access, around the clock. The Lightning 9900 V Series systems can be paired with Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage systems in tiered environments for such applications as content distribution, backup, data archiving, and compliance.
Features at-a-glance
- Seamless scalability with non-disruptive expansion to over 140TB
- Multi-dimensional scalability including capacity, bandwidth, connectivity, workload mix and embedded applications
- Unique virtualization layer
- Instant, user-defined, point-in-time copies
- Off-site redundancy with complete data integrity
- Multi-protocol compatibility—Fibre Channel, FICON and ESCON
- Support for DAS, SAN, NAS, and iSCSI connectivity
Optimized for:
- Maximized consolidation and storage resource pooling
- Non-disruptive, real-time copies for backups and quick disaster recovery
- Unequalled platform for deployment in tiered storage environments, paired with Thunder 9500 V Series systems for data lifecycle management and regulatory compliance functions
Thunder 9500™ V Series Modular Storage Systems
Whatever the size of your business, we have a Hitachi Thunder 9500™ V Series modular storage system that's sure to fit. As part of our Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, Thunder 9500 V Series systems can precisely match your business application needs. The Thunder 9570V™ and Thunder 9585V™ systems support high performance, high capacity, and high connectivity features that make them perfect for information-intensive industries like oil exploration, life sciences, health care, and rich media. The smaller models—the Thunder 9530V™ entry-level storage deck and the SATA-based Thunder 9520V™ Workgroup Modular Storage—are ideal for standalone deployment in retail outlets, business franchises, and professional offices.
Each of the Thunder 9500 V Series storage systems can complement our TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform and Lightning 9900™ V Series enterprise storage systems in tiered storage deployments which require common management tools and data movement for Data Lifecycle Management applications. Able to support both Fibre Channel and Serial ATA disk drives, the high-end Thunder 9570V and Thunder 9585V systems also offer cost-effective backup, archiving, and compliance solutions all in one box, or paired with the larger enterprise systems. With the Thunder family, you gain the intelligence of automated management in affordable, easy-to-grow packages.
With the Thunder 9500 V Series you can:
- Close the gap between business needs and IT service levels
- Maximize your applications' performance and availability
- Simplify storage and system management
- Deploy distributed and tiered storage
- Safeguard against data loss
- Maintain business continuity
- Optimize resources and improve productivity
- Support multiple heterogeneous open-systems environments
TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform
With capabilities well beyond any other storage system, the Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform establishes a new industry category, reaching previously unattainable levels of consolidation and bringing to reality the virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage into one pool.
This platform provides a comprehensive set of storage and data services including large-scale virtualization of internal and external heterogeneous storage for application-centric storage area management and simplified and unified data replication. As an integral component of Application Optimized Storage™ solutions, the Universal Storage Platform is the architectural foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.
The Universal Storage Platform will enable you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage—and add value to—current investments, and more closely align IT and business initiatives.
Features at-a-glance
- Superior performance: 2 million I/Os per second, 81GB/sec aggregate internal bandwidth
- Superior scalability: 32PB of total storage capacity including up to 332TB of internal storage
- Superior connectivity: up to 192 Fibre Channel, 64 ESCON, or 48 FICON ports
- Powered by the third-generation Universal Star Network™ crossbar switch architecture
- Virtualization of internal and externally attached storage
- Logical partitioning of internal and externally attached storage resources
- Universal replication across heterogeneous platforms
- Active workload balancing and tuning
- Single-pane-of-glass management with HiCommand® software
Optimized for:
- Industrial-strength virtualization, replication, migration, and single-pane management across heterogeneous storage systems
- Guaranteed application QoS and chargeback capabilities through Private Virtual Storage Machines
- Any-to-any data replication
- Advanced data lifecycle management