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Fibre Channel Topologies

Fibre Channel Topologies Topology is the way of approach to connecting devices to form a network. Fibre Channel-based networks support three types of base topologies: Point-to-point Arbitrated loop Switched fabric Switched fabric further classified...

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What is Congestion in SAN fabric?

Congestion When over-subscription occurs, it leads to a condition called congestion. When a node is unable to use as much bandwidth as it wants, because of contention with another node, then there is congestion. A...

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What is Hop in SAN fabric?

What is Hop in SAN fabric When Fibre Channel traffic is going from one E_Port over an ISL to another E_Port, is one hop. ISLs are made by connecting an E_Port to an E_Port....

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What are the well known addresses in Fibre Channel?

What are the well known addresses in Fibre Channel? A well-known address is a reserved address for each Fibre channel service. Each address provides it’s respective service. Well known addresses and its services are...

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HBA parameters for connecting to Hitachi VSP

HBA parameters for connecting to Hitachi VSP The minimum requirements for configuring the adapters for operation with the Hitachi RAID storage system are I/O timeout value (TOV) The disk I/O timeout value (TOV) is...

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How to expand LDEV capacity in Hitachi VSP

Expand LDEV capacity in Hitachi VSP In the Storage Navigator main window, in the Storage Systems tree, select Pool. The pool name appears below Pool. Select the pool associated with the DP-VOL that has...

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Hitachi VSP family matrix

Hitachi VSP family matrix VSP series is Hitachi’s latest version of SAN storage arrays Hitachi VSP series has 5 models G200 G400 G600 G800 G1000Let us discuss the specifications of each model G200: It...

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Hitachi VSP Introduction

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform(VSP ) is a high-capacity, high-performance, large-scale, enterprise-class SAN storage system. The main advantage of the Hitachi Virtual storage platform (VSP) is its 3D scaling...

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Zero page reclamation in Hitachi VSP

Zero page reclamation in Hitachi VSP We can reclaim zero pages in a DP-VOL to free pool capacity. If a page assigned to a DP-VOL contains only zero binary data, we can reclaim the...