Scalability; Examples Of Supported Vsp G400 Configurations; Examples Of Supported Vsp G600 Configurations - Hitachi G400 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 G400 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
LFF drive tray
FMD tray
Dense intermix drive
tray
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.

Examples of supported VSP G600 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
LFF drive tray
FMD tray
Chapter 1: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G400, G600 hardware overview
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G400, G600 Hardware Reference Guide
Feature
Using 14 TB FMD
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
16
16
16
8
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
24
24
24
Value
VSP G400: 2,702 TB
VSP G600: 4,053 TB
Maximum number of drives
supported
384 HDDs or SSDs
192 HDDs or SSDs
192 Hitachi Accelerated Flash (HAF)
flash module drives
-
Maximum number of drives
supported
576 HDDs or SSDs
288 HDDs or SSDs
288 HAF flash module drives
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