Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform User Manual

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Functional and Operational Characteristics
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Hitachi VSP User and Reference Guide
Functional and Operational
Characteristics
This chapter describes the functional and operational characteristics of the
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform storage system, including the system
architecture.
□ System architecture overview
□ Hardware architecture
□ RAID implementation overview
□ CU images, LVIs, and logical units
□ Mainframe operations
□ System option modes, host modes, and host mode options
□ Open-systems operations
□ Storage Navigator

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)