Bandwidth Of Supported Host Interfaces; Number Of Host Interfaces Supported; Types Of Hosts Supported By Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment By The Lightning 9900 Series; Figure 11 A 9960 System Connected To Mainframes And Open Systems Hosts - Hitachi Lighting 9900 Series Architecture Manual

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Figure 11 – A 9960
system connected to
Mainframes and Open
Systems hosts.
Table 2 – Bandwidth
of supported interfaces
of the Lightning 9900
Series.
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Bandwidth of Supported Host Interfaces

The bandwidth of interfaces supported by the Lightning 9900
Table 2.
Supported Interface
Fibre Channel Adapters
ESCON ® Adapters
™
FICON Adapters

Number of Host Interfaces Supported

Up to 32 Fibre Channel, ESCON
to 24 on the 9910. No card slots are subtracted from anywhere else in the subsystem to
accommodate these ports.
Types of Hosts Supported by Direct Fibre Channel Host Attachment by
the Lightning 9900
The Lightning 9900
hosts for unmatched connectivity. The Lightning 9900
Channel host attachment to all major open systems platforms as listed below:
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows 2000
• HP-UX
• Solaris
™
• AIX 32 and 64 bit (IBM
• NetWare
• Linux Red Hat
®
• IRIX (SGI
®
• Tru64
™
• OpenVMS
Bandwidth
100MB/sec or 200MB/sec
17.5MB/sec
100MB/sec
or FICON ports are available on the 9960 and up
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™ Series
Series supports all major open systems hosts and mainframe
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(Sun )
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)
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(Novell )
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)
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UNIX (Compaq )
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™ (Compaq ® )
Series is shown in
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Series supports direct Fibre
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