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Hitachi 9900 Lightning, 9900V BlackLight, and Universal Storage Platform
Performance Associates has an ongoing relationship with Hitachi Data Systems for the evaluation of new subsystems. Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Ltd. are licensed vendor users of PAI/O Driver for z/OS.

Evaluations have been conducted of Hitachi's HRC remote copy implementation over ESCON fiber,T3/E3, and dark fibre connections.
Subsystem Date Configuration Tested Pages Figures Tables
FICON Express USP600 146GB Drives Sept '04 1-BED Pair, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 FICON Express Chans/512 3390-3s RAID-5 77 39 16
ESCON 9980V 73GB Drives Oct '02 2 and 4-ACP Pairs, 16 and 32 ESCON Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-5 71 40 16
FICON Express 9980V 73GB Drives Aug '02 4-ACP Pairs, 16 FICON Express Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID10+ and RAID-5 71 37 16
FICON Express 9980V 73GB Drives Aug '02 2 and 4-ACP Pairs, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32 FICON Express Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-5 77 41 17
ESCON 9980V 73GB Drives Aug '02 2 and 4-ACP Pairs, 16 and 32 ESCON Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-5 71 40 16
FICON Express 9960 73GB Drives Aug '02 4-ACP Pairs, 8 and 16 FICON Express Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-5 73 39 16
FICON Express 9960 73GB Drives May '02 4-ACP Pairs, 8 FICON Express Chans/512 3390-3s RAID-5 59 36 16
9900 18GB Drives Nov '00 4-ACP Pairs, 32 ESCON Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-10+ 51 31 15
9900 18GB Drives Oct '00 4-ACP Pairs, 32 ESCON Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-5 55 29 15
9900 18GB Drives Aug '00 4-ACP Pairs, 16 ESCON Chans/1024 3390-3s RAID-5 53 29 15
7700E 15GB Drives Scalability Analysis March '00 2-ACP Pairs, 8 ESCON Chans/448 3390-3s RAID-5
4-ACP Pairs, 16 ESCON Chans/864 3390-3s RAID-5
4-ACP Pairs, 32 ESCON Chans/864 3390-3s RAID-5		 67 42 14
7700E 36GB Drives Nov '99 2-ACP Pairs, 8 ESCON Chans/320 3390-3s RAID-5 61 34 4
7700E 15GB Drives Nov '99 2-ACP Pairs, 8 ESCON Chans/192 3390-3s RAID-5 61 34 4
7700E 6GB Drives May '98 8 ESCON Chans/128 3390-3s RAID-5 59 34 5
7700E 18GB Drives May '98 8 ESCON Chans/252 3390-3s RAID-5 62 34 5
7700E 9GB Drives May '98 8 ESCON Chans/252 3390-3s RAID-5 61 34 5
7700 9GB Drives July '97 8 ESCON Chans/256 3390-3s RAID-5
8 ESCON Chans/168 3390-3s RAID-1		 63 32 3
7700 3GB Drives Feb '96 4 ESCON Chans/64 3390-3s RAID-5
8 ESCON Chans/64 3390-3s RAID-5
4 ESCON Chans/128 3390-3s RAID-5
8 ESCON Chans/128 3390-3s RAID-5		 56 28 3

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