Maximum number of mounted drive trays
The following table lists the maximum number of mountable drive trays and
mountable drives for each drive type.
Note: If a drive is inserted into a slot of a dense intermix drive tray when the
installed number of drives exceeds 240 slots per path, the drive is blocked.
VSP G400 Controller Drive trays
Maximum number of
trays
Maximum number of
drives
CBLM SFF 16 384 HDDs or SSDs
LFF 16 192 HDDs or SSDs
FMD 16 192 FMDs (HAF)
4 48 FMDs
FMD 1 8 FMDs + 1 spare
(DC2)
Dense intermix drive
tray
8 480 HDDs or SSDs
VSP G600 Controller Drive trays
Maximum number of
trays
Maximum number of
drives
CBLM SFF 24 576 HDDs or SSDs
LFF 24 288 HDDs or SSDs
FMD 24 288 FMDs (HAF)
4 48 FMDs
FMD 2 16 FMDs + 1 spare
(DC2)
Dense intermix drive
tray
12 720 HDDs or SSDs
VSP G400
controller
Number of mounted drive trays
(Maximum 12 per path)
Maximum number of mounted drives
SFF, LFF drives
Dense intermix
drive tray
SFF drive +
dense intermix
drive tray
LFF drive +
dense intermix
drive tray
CBLM
16 0 384 192
13 1 372 216
12 2 408 264
9 3 396 288
8 4 432 336
5 5 420 360
4 6 456 408
1 7 444 432
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G400, G600 Hardware Reference Guide