Hitachi VSP 5500 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Contents
Preface..................................................................................................... 5
Safety and environmental information................................................................. 5
Intended audience............................................................................................... 5
Product version....................................................................................................5
Release notes......................................................................................................6
Changes in this revision.......................................................................................6
Document conventions........................................................................................ 6
Conventions for storage capacity values............................................................. 7
Accessing product documentation.......................................................................8
Getting help..........................................................................................................8
Comments............................................................................................................9
Chapter 1: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform 5000 series overview.. 10
Features.............................................................................................................10
Storage system specifications............................................................................11
Chapter 2: Hardware overview.............................................................14
Hardware components.......................................................................................14
Controller chassis.........................................................................................14
Controller board...................................................................................... 18
10-Gbps iSCSI board(optical)................................................................. 20
16-Gbps or 32-Gbps Fibre Channel (4-port) board.................................22
Back-end module.................................................................................... 24
Fabric-acceleration module.....................................................................25
Drive box...................................................................................................... 26
Data storage drives.................................................................................40
Node interconnect switch............................................................................. 41
Interconnect switch................................................................................. 47
Service processor................................................................................... 47
Ethernet Switch (SSVP)..........................................................................49
Interconnect switch power supply........................................................... 51
LED locations for high availability node........................................................52
Chapter 3: Specifications.....................................................................55
Storage system specifications........................................................................... 55
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