There are four ports for each interface board or a total of 32 host interfaces for a fully
configured system. An ESCON interface board is shown in Figure 10. A FICON interface
board has a similar appearance.
A Lightning 9900
Series system can connect to mainframes and open systems hosts,
™
thereby consolidating the storage for an enterprise under one roof for consistent
performance, availability, and ease of management. This is shown in Figure 12.
Front-end Design of the Hitachi Lightning 9900 Series
Figure 10 – An ESCON
host adapter board and
its major hardware
components.
®
13