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RAID

What is Raid RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is a storage virtualization technology that combines multiple small physical disks into a single large logical...

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Fibre vs Fiber in SAN

Fibre vs Fiber Fibre Channel was designed to support fiber optic cabling only. But industry also started using copper cables later to avoid the damage due to heat produced in storage systems. The committee...

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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Specifications

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) specifications Architecture Hitachi Hierarchical Star Network Maximum internal capacity 2.5PB Maximum internal and external capacity 255PB Maximum number of logical volumes 65,280 Cache memory capacity Minimum 128GB Maximum 1TB...

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What is hitachi dynamic provisioning?

Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) Dynamic provisioning in Hitachi virtual storage platform(VSP) works on the concept of thin provisioning. Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) was first introduced on the USP V/VM arrays. It provides a mechanism...

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HDS definitions of notations

Hitachi storage definitions of notations Before getting to explore Hitachi storage arrays, first, allow us to get some Hitachi data systems definitions of terms. Array Group (Disk feature) – The term used to describe...

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RAID levels comparison in Hitachi VSP storage systems

RAID levels comparison in Hitachi VSP storage systems RAID‐10 RAID‐5 RAID‐6 Description Data Striping +(plus) Mirroring Data Striping with +(plus) distributed parity Data Striping with two distributed parities Disk count 4 (or) 8 4...

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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform(VSP) Architecture

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Architecture ultimate Guide The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) architecture is a modular based enterprise-level storage system. A fully configured Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) will contain a maximum of 6...

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All Brocade SAN switch commands

Brocade SAN switch commands S.No Command Description 1 aaaconfig Configure RADIUS for AAA services 2 ad Specifies all administration domain (AD)-level operations 3 ag Configure the Access Gateway feature 4 agautomapbalance Configure the Access...