Sun StorageTek 9990 System

Sun StorageTek 9990 System

Specifications

No Longer Orderable

Innovative capabilities combine raw performance and capacity into an enterprise class disk system with broad connectivity, heterogeneous operating systems support, and a small footprint. Enable extreme consolidation and reduce TCO.


Key Specifications

  • High capacity - 330 TB Capacity with 300 GB HDDs
  • High Performance - 81 GB/sec aggregate system bandwidth (68 GB/sec data bandwidth; 13 GB/sec control bandwidth)
  • Connectivity - Fibre Channel (up to 192 redundant pairs), ESCON (96 pairs) and FICON (48 pairs)
  • Small footprint for extreme capacity
Capacity and Performance
Total raw capacity 300 GB HDD, 10K-rpm drive: 330 TB
146GB, 10K/15K-rpm drives: 165TB
73 GB HDD, 15K-rpm drive: 85 TB

Number of disks (with spares) 5 to 1152

Hot spares 1-16

Usable capacity for RAID 5 (max.) - With 146 GB 10K HDD Open systems: 143.9 TB
zOS Compatible: 135.2 TB

Usable capacity for RAID 1+ (max) - With 146 GB 10K HDD Open systems: 82.5 TB
S/390 compatible, 73 GB, 10,000-rpm drive: 71.8 GB
Standard Interfaces
Data Cache Maximum: 128 GB
Minimum: 4 GB
Increments: 4 GB

Shared/Control memory Up to 12GB

Logical/Device support Number of devices: 16,384
Physical Interfaces
Front-End Directors Number of Front-End Directors: 6
Number of simultaneous data transfers: Up to 16 or 32 per Front-End Director
Interface speed (Fibre Channel): 2 Gb/sec

Redundant pairs Fibre Channel: 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192
ESCON: 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96
FICON: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48

Back-End Directors Number of Back-End Director: Up to 4
Disk Drives per Back-End Director: Up to 256 HDDs

Bandwidth per fully configured system 81 GB/sec aggregate system bandwidth
68 GB/sec data bandwidth
13 GB/sec control bandwidth
Software
Operating System Open systems: Solaris Operating System, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Novell NetWare, Red Hat Linux, SuSe Linux, SGI IRIX, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows NT, Compaq Tru64 UNIX

Mainframe: OS/390, MVS/ESA, MVS/XA, TPF/MPLF, VM/ESA, VM/XA, VM/HPO, VSE/ESA, VSE/SP, Z/OS, Linux for Z Series

Host failover and alternative path Sun Cluster 3.2, VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS)-Solaris, HP MC/ServiceGuard, IBM HACMP, Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), Compaq TruCluster, Novell Cluster Services, VMS Cluster, Sun StorageTek 9900 SDLM, Sun StorageTek Traffic Manager Software (SSTM), VERITAS Volume Manager/DMP
Environment
Sun StorageTek 9990 Control Frame Heat: 8.68 kW
Power: 9.077 kVA

Sun StorageTek 9990Array Frame Heat: 7.07 kW
Power: 7.636 kVA
Dimensions and Weight
Sun StorageTek 9990 Control Frame Height: 186.0 cm (73.2 in.)
Width: 78.2 cm (30.77 in.)
Depth: 92.5 cm (36.42 in.)
Weight: 590 kg (1300.73 lb.)

Sun StorageTek 9990 Array Frame Height: 186.0 cm (73.2 in.)
Width: 65.0 cm (25.59 in.)
Depth: 92.5 cm (36.42 in.)
Weight: 430 kg (947.99 lb.)