Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G370 User Manual

Chapter 1: Overview
The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G350 and VSP G370 is a versatile modular, rack-
mountable hybrid array storage system equipped with drive boxes, supporting SAS hard-
disk drives and ash drives, scaled for various storage capacity congurations.
The storage systems provide high performance operations by using dual controllers with
high-speed processors, dual in-line cache memory modules (DIMMs), cache ash
memory (CFM), battery, fans and ports to connect iSCSI and Fibre Channel I/O modules.
Each controller has an Ethernet connection for out-of-band management. If the data
path through one controller fails, all data drives remain available to hosts using a
redundant data path through the other controller.
For reliability, essential hardware components are implemented with a redundant
conguration so that the storage system can remain operational if a component fails.
Adding and replacing components, along with rmware upgrades, can be conducted
while the storage system is active and without interruption of data availability to the
hosts. A hot spare drive can be congured to replace a failed data drive automatically,
securing the fault-tolerant integrity of the logical drives. Self-contained, hardware-based
RAID logical drives provide maximum performance in compact external enclosures.
Block configuration
A storage system congured for block-level storage provides the ability to access and
provision raw storage volumes using protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
A block conguration consists of the following:
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One dual controller chassis with on-board drives
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One or more optional drive trays
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Optional service processor (SVP)
Features
All storage systems are highly reliable, versatile, and able to scale its performance by
adding more drive chassis and data drives. Depending on the system conguration, the
drive chassis oerings support SAS-interface disk and solid-state drives.
Chapter 1: Overview
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G370 Specifications

General

Brand	Hitachi
Model	Virtual Storage Platform G370
Category	Storage
Language	English