Thunder™ 9500 V-series
Storage Area Network (SAN) Device
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation
29 Mar 2007
88609

YES CERTIFIED with the following products:
Operating Systems:
  NetWare® 6.5     Support Pack 6 for NetWare® 6.5

Other Products:
  Novell Cluster Services™ 1.8 

Product Description
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.

Primary Driver File(s):
File Name: QL2X00.HAMFile Version: 6.90m
File Date: 14-Jul-2006File Size: 534131
Checksum: -1
File URL:

Driver Support File(s)
File Name: QL2X00.DDIFile Version: 2.09
File Date: 23-Mar-2006File Size: 29855
Checksum: -1
File URL:

Storage Area Network
Product NameThunder™ 9500 V-series
Interface:FibreChannel
Firmware:165C/R

Tested Configuration:
Host Bus Adapter:QLogic  QLA2462 4-Gbps Fibre Channel to PCI-X HBA , Interface: FibreChannel
QLogic  QLA2340 64-Bit PCI-X to 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel Adapter , Interface: FibreChannel
QLogic  QLA2310 64-Bit PCI-X to 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel , Interface: FibreChannel
System:Dell  PowerEdge 1850 / 2-Xeon® DP 3.0 GHz
Test Kit:Diskkit 4.05.08 - 02-07-2007

Config Notes

Referenced Bulletins
88605

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