Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform User Manual

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Glossary–7
Hitachi VSP User and Reference Guide
Tier 4 systems are not supported.
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virtual storage director
The virtual storage directors of the Virtual Storage Platform storage
system control the front-end directors and manage front-end access to
cache memory.
volume
A logical device (LDEV), or a set of concatenated LDEVs in the case of
LUSE, that has been defined to one or more hosts as a single data
storage unit. A mainframe volume is called a logical volume image (LVI),
and an open-systems volume is called a logical unit. (LU).

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Specifications

General

Drive Types	SSD, SAS
RAID Support	RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10
Connectivity	Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE
Form Factor	Rack-mounted
Category	Enterprise Storage System
Data Reduction	Deduplication and Compression (capabilities vary by model and software version)
Operating System Compatibility	Windows, Linux, UNIX, VMware
High Availability	Redundant components
Scalability	Scale-up and scale-out
Model	Virtual Storage Platform (VSP)