Hitachi F1500 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
Preface................................................................................................. 7
Safety and environmental information....................................................................... 8
Intended audience................................................................................................... 8
Product version........................................................................................................8
Release notes.......................................................................................................... 8
Changes in this revision............................................................................................8
Related documents.................................................................................................. 9
Document conventions............................................................................................. 9
Conventions for storage capacity values...................................................................10
Accessing product documentation........................................................................... 11
Getting help...........................................................................................................11
Comments.............................................................................................................11
1 Introduction....................................................................................13
System overview.................................................................................................... 14
Features...........................................................................................................14
High performance....................................................................................... 15
Scalability................................................................................................... 16
Flexible connectivity.................................................................................... 17
High reliability.............................................................................................17
High flexibility............................................................................................. 17
Nondisruptive service and upgrades..............................................................19
High temperature mode ..............................................................................19
Economical and quiet.................................................................................. 21
Hardware overview................................................................................................ 21
Controller chassis..............................................................................................29
Controller components...................................................................................... 30
Front-end director.............................................................................................32
Supported connections and protocols............................................................33
Flexible front-end director installation........................................................... 35
Supported speeds and cable lengths.............................................................38
Drive chassis.................................................................................................... 39
Cache memory................................................................................................. 43
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