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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V
At the core of the Universal Storage Platform V and VM is a fully fault tolerant, high performance, non-blocking, silicon based switched architecture designed to provide the bandwidth needed to support infrastructure consolidation of enterprise file and block-based storage services on and behind a single platform.
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Description
Universal Storage Platform V Specifications [9]
Frames (Cabinets) - Integrated Control/Drive Group Frame and 1 to 4 optional Drive Group Frames
Universal Star Network Crossbar Switch - Number of switches 8
Aggregate bandwidth (GB/sec) - 106
Aggregate IOPS - Over 4 million
Cache Memory - Number of cache modules 1-32, Module capacity 8 or 16GB, Maximum cache memory 512GB
Control/Shared Memory - Number of control memory modules 1-8, Module capacity 4GB, Maximum control memory 28GB
Front End Directors (Connectivity)
Number of Directors 1-14
Fibre Channel host ports per Director - 8 or 16
Fibre Channel port performance - 4, 8 Gbit/s
Maximum Fibre Channel host ports - 224
Virtual host ports - 1,024 per physical port
Maximum IBM FICON host ports - 112
Maximum IBM ESCON host ports - 112
Logical Devices (LUNs) — Maximum Supported
Open systems 65,536
IBM z/OS 65,536
Disks
Type: Flash 73, 146, 200 and 400GB
Type: Fibre Channel 146, 300, 450 and 600GB
Type: SATA II 1TB, 2TB
Number of disks per system (min/max) 4-1,152
Number spare disks per system (min/max) 1-40
Maximum Internal Raw Capacity - (2TB disks) 2,268 TB
Maximum Usable Capacity - RAID-5
Open systems (2TB disks) 1,972 TB
z/OS-compatible (1TB disks) 931 TB
Maximum Usable Capacity — RAID-6
Open systems (2TB disks) 1,690TB
z/OS-compatible (1TB disks) 796 TB
Maximum Usable Capacity — RAID-1+
Open systems (2TB disks) 1,130TB
z/OS-compatible (1TB disks) 527.4TB
Other Features
RAID 1, 10, 5, 6 support
Maximum internal and external capacity 247PB
Virtual Storage Machines 32 max
Back end directors 1-8
Operating System Support
Mainframe - Fujitsu: MSP; IBM z/OS, z/OS.e, z/VM, zVSE, TPF; Red Hat; Linux for IBM S/390 and zSeries; SUSE: Linux Enterprise Server for System z.
Open systems - HP: HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, Open VMS; IBM AIX; Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008; Novell NetWare; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; Red Hat Enterprise Linux; SGI IRIX; Sun Microsystems Solaris; VMware ESX and Vsphere, Citrix XENserver