Hitachi G1500 - VSP F1500 System Specifications

Table 30 VSP F1500 system specications
Item Specification
System Number of
ash modules
drives (FMD)
Minimum 4
Maximum 576
Maximum number of ash drives
(SSD)
384 (Standard performance
conguration)
6
2,304 (High-performance
conguration)
6
RAID level RAID 6/RAID 5 /RAID 1
RAID group
conguration
RAID 6 6D+2P, 14D+2P
RAID 5 3D+1P, 7D+1P
6
RAID 1 2D+2D, 4D+4D
Maximum number of spare drives 96
1
Maximum number of volumes 65,280
Maximum storage system capacity
(physical capacity)
8,106 TB
(using 14-
TB
FMD)
8,711 TB
(using 3.8-TB
SSD)
Internal path
Ar
chitectur
e Hierarchical Star Net
Maximum
bandwidth
Data path 768 GBps
Control path 128 GBps
Memory Cache memory capacity 32 GB to 2,048 GB
Cache ash memory capacity 256 GB to 2,048 GB
Device
interface
Controller/drive chassis interface SAS/Dual Port
Data transfer rate Maximum 6 Gbps
Maximum number of drive per SAS
interface
(Under the FMD standard model)
72
Maximum number of disk adapters 4
Channel
interface
Support
channel type
Mainframe 2/4/8 Gbps Fibre Channel:
16MS8/16ML8
4/8/16 Gbps Fibre Channel:
16MS16/16ML16
Appendix A: Storage system specications
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