Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform User Manual

System Components
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Hitachi VSP User and Reference Guide
The following illustrations show the front and rear views of a controller
chassis that is configured with the minimum number of components. The
system control panel (#1 in the front view) is described in the next section.
Figure 3-1 Controller chassis - front view (minimum configuration)
Item Description Item Description
Control Panel Fan (10 total)
Cache (optional) Cache Memory Adapter
Space for additional Virtual
Storage Director
Virtual Storage Director
(microprocessor board)

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)