Scalability; Examples Of Supported Vsp F400 Configurations; Examples Of Supported Vsp F600 Configurations; Maximum Number Of Mounted Drive Trays - Hitachi F400 Hardware Reference Manual

Scalability

All storage systems offer pay-as-you-grow scalability by allowing you to hot-add drives as you
need them.

Examples of supported VSP F400 configurations

The following table lists the maximum number of drive trays and drives supported in a system
configuration. A diskless configuration does not include any drive trays.
Drive tray
SFF drive tray
FMD tray

Examples of supported VSP F600 configurations

The following table lists the maximum number of drive trays and drives supported in a system
configuration. A diskless configuration does not include any drive trays.
Drive tray
SFF drive tray
FMD tray

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.
Chapter 1: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600 hardware overview
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600 Hardware Reference Guide
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
16
16
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
24
24
Maximum number of drives
supported
384 SSDs
192 Hitachi Accelerated Flash (HAF)
flash module drives
Maximum number of drives
supported
576 SSDs
288 HAF flash module drives
Scalability
18