Hitachi F1500 - Features

System overview
The VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 are high-capacity, high-
performance, unified block and file enterprise storage systems that offer a
wide range of storage and data services, software, logical partitioning and
unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems.
For information about availability of Virtual Storage Platform F1500, contact
your HDS representative.
Features
The VSP G1000, VSP G1500, and VSP F1500 storage systems include state-
of-the art advances in hardware technology that improve reliability,
serviceability and accessibility to drives and other components when
maintenance is required.
• Hitachi Accelerated Flash FMD DC2 storage offers a patented data-center-
class design and rack-optimized form factor that delivers more than 8 PB
per system. The FMD DC2 supports a sustained performance of 100,000
8K I/O per second, per device, with low and consistent response time.
• The latest 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch 6 Gb/sec SAS drives support lower power
consumption and higher density per rack with up to 2,304 drives in six 19-
inch standard racks. For more information about drive specifications, see
Storage system specifications on page 122. For information about Hitachi
racks, refer to the Hitachi Universal V2 Rack Reference Guide,
MK-94HM8035.
• Hitachi NAS Platform hardware-accelerated network protocols support up
to 2 GB/sec throughput for sequential workloads and up to 1.2 million NFS
operations per second.
• Efficient caching makes up to 2 TB global cache dynamically accessible by
all connected hosts and Hitachi NAS Platform nodes.
• The HNAS file module provides primary data deduplication using hardware-
based SHA-256 calculation engines. This module achieves up to 90%
capacity savings while maintaining high performance.
• When each controller is housed in a separate rack, the two controller racks
can be placed up to 100 meters apart. In addition, the drive racks
attached to a controller rack can be placed up to 100 meters from the
controller rack. This enables maximum flexibility to optimize data center
space usage and provides ease of access for operation and maintenance.
See the detailed description of this feature and the cable diagrams in
Long
cable connections on page 97.
• The VSP G1500 and VSP F1500 are equipped with new Virtual Storage
Directors (VSD). The VSD uses the latest generation of Intel Xenon 2.3GHz
8-core microprocessor to efficiently manage the front-end and back-end
directors, PCI-Express interface, local memory and communication
between the service processor.
14 Introduction
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, G1500, and Virtual Storage Platform F1500 Hardware Guide