Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400 Operating and maintenance manual

Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600
83-05-2x
Hardware Reference Guide
This document provides information about the system hardware components, mechanical, and
environmental specifications for the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400 and VSP F600 storage
systems.
MK-94HM8045-13
March 2021

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Contents
Preface......................................................................................................6
Intended audience............................................................................................... 6
UEFI Development Kit 2010................................................................................ 6
Product version....................................................................................................7
Release notes......................................................................................................7
Changes in this revision.......................................................................................7
Document conventions........................................................................................ 7
Conventions for storage capacity values............................................................. 9
Accessing product documentation.....................................................................10
Getting help........................................................................................................10
Comments..........................................................................................................10
Chapter 1: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600 hardware
overview.................................................................................................. 11
Block configuration.............................................................................................11
Unified configuration.......................................................................................... 12
VSP F400 model................................................................................................12
VSP F600 model................................................................................................14
Features.............................................................................................................17
Scalability...........................................................................................................18
Examples of supported VSP F400 configurations........................................18
Examples of supported VSP F600 configurations........................................18
Maximum number of mounted drive trays.................................................... 18
Chapter 2: Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600 controller.................... 20
CBLM controller................................................................................................. 20
CBLM with front panel bezel........................................................................ 20
CBLM front panel LEDs (without bezel)....................................................... 21
CBLM rear panel.......................................................................................... 23
CBLM power supply unit LEDs and connectors........................................... 25
Host, Network, and Drive Tray Ports and LEDs.................................................25
Front-end modules....................................................................................... 25
10-Gbps iSCSI board LEDs and connectors (optical).............................26
10-Gbps iSCSI board LEDs and connectors (copper)............................ 26
or 32-Gbps Fibre Channel (4-port) board LEDs and connectors............ 26
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16-Gbps Fibre Channel (2-port) board LEDs and connectors................ 26
LAN blade LEDs and connectors................................................................. 28
Back-end modules........................................................................................28
Chapter 3: Drive trays............................................................................ 30
Small form-factor drive tray (DBS/DBSE).......................................................... 30
SFF with front panel bezel............................................................................30
SFF front panel without bezel.......................................................................31
SFF rear panel..............................................................................................32
SFF and LFF AC power supply unit LEDs and connectors..........................33
SFF power supply unit LEDs and connectors.............................................. 34
Flash module drive tray (DBF)...........................................................................34
FMD with front panel bezel...........................................................................35
FMD front panel without bezel......................................................................36
FMD rear panel.............................................................................................37
Chapter 4: Host port expansion chassis................................................. 39
Host port expansion chassis front panel bezel LEDs........................................ 39
PCIe switchboard...............................................................................................39
Host port expansion chassis fan........................................................................40
PCIe cable connector........................................................................................ 41
Host port expansion chassis power supply........................................................42
Chapter 5: NAS module.......................................................................... 44
NAS Module Ports and LEDs............................................................................ 44
Chapter 6: Maintaining the storage system............................................ 46
Storing the storage system................................................................................ 46
Powering off the storage system........................................................................46
Battery unit.........................................................................................................47
Appendix A: Mechanical specifications for VSP F400, F600 ................ 48
VSP F400 and VSP F600 mechanical specifications........................................ 48
Appendix B: Electrical specifications for VSP F400, F600......................55
Electrical specifications......................................................................................55
Appendix C: Environmental specifications for VSP F400, F600............. 56
Environmental specifications............................................................................. 56
Appendix D: iSCSI standards and specifications....................................60
iSCSI standards.................................................................................................60
iSCSI specifications........................................................................................... 60
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Appendix E: Replacement parts............................................................. 65
Battery unit.........................................................................................................65
Appendix F: Data and power cables....................................................... 66
Required cables.................................................................................................66
Fibre Channel cables.........................................................................................68
iSCSI cables...................................................................................................... 71
iSCSI standards............................................................................................73
iSCSI specifications......................................................................................74
Managing cables................................................................................................77
AC power cables................................................................................................79
Power cable assemblies...............................................................................80
AC connections............................................................................................ 81
Power cable usage guidelines......................................................................83
Three-phase power considerations for racks............................................... 84
Cable management...................................................................................... 84
Appendix G: Port address mapping........................................................ 85
Port address mapping........................................................................................85
Appendix H: Non-Hitachi racks............................................................... 87
Non-Hitachi rack support .................................................................................. 87
Hitachi Universal V2 Rack rail kits..................................................................... 87
Hitachi Universal V2 Rack accessories............................................................. 88
Appendix I: Regulatory compliance........................................................ 89
Appendix J: Environmental notices.........................................................91
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Preface
This guide describes the hardware features and specifications of the Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform F400, F600 all-flash arrays.
Intended audience
This document is intended for Hitachi Vantara representatives, system administrators,
authorized service providers, or customers who install, configure, and operate the storage
system.
Readers of this document should be familiar with the following:
■Data processing and RAID storage systems and their basic functions
■RAID storage system hardware components and operational specifications
UEFI Development Kit 2010
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http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tianocore/index.php?title=UDK2010
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Product version
This document revision applies to the following product versions:
■VSP F400, F600 firmware 83-05-2x or later
■Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) 7.4.0 or later
■Hitachi NAS firmware version 13.1 or later
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■Added support for DW-F800-NASR (RoHS Compliant)
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Conventions for storage capacity values
Physical storage capacity values (for example, disk drive capacity) are calculated based on
the following values:
Physical capacity unit Value
1 kilobyte (KB) 1,000 (103) bytes
1 megabyte (MB) 1,000 KB or 1,0002 bytes
1 gigabyte (GB) 1,000 MB or 1,0003 bytes
1 terabyte (TB) 1,000 GB or 1,0004 bytes
1 petabyte (PB) 1,000 TB or 1,0005 bytes
1 exabyte (EB) 1,000 PB or 1,0006 bytes
Logical capacity values (for example, logical device capacity, cache memory capacity) are
calculated based on the following values:
Logical capacity unit Value
1 block 512 bytes
1 cylinder Mainframe: 870 KB
Open-systems:
■OPEN-V: 960 KB
■Others: 720 KB
1 KB 1,024 (210) bytes
1 MB 1,024 KB or 1,0242 bytes
1 GB 1,024 MB or 1,0243 bytes
1 TB 1,024 GB or 1,0244 bytes
1 PB 1,024 TB or 1,0245 bytes
Conventions for storage capacity values
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Logical capacity unit Value
1 EB 1,024 PB or 1,0246 bytes
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Chapter 1: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400,
F600 hardware overview
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600 are modular, rack-mountable, all-flash arrays that
deliver high performance, high reliability, and flash-accelerated scalability.
The storage system contain dual controllers, each controller contains its own processor, dual
in-line cache memory modules (DIMMs), cache flash memory (CFM), battery, fans and iSCSI
and Fibre Channel I/O modules. Each controller also has an Ethernet connection for out-of-
band management. If the data path through one controller fails, all data drives remain
available to data hosts using a redundant data path through the other controller.
The storage system can be equipped with embedded network-attached storage (NAS)
modules. The NAS modules provide file access through CIFS and NFS protocols and block
access by using iSCSI protocols.
All storage system models allow defective drives to be replaced without the interruption of
data availability to hosts. A hot spare drive can be configured to replace a failed drive
automatically, securing the fault-tolerant integrity of the logical drives. Self-contained,
hardware-based RAID logical drives provide maximum performance in compact external
enclosures.
Essential hardware components are implemented with a redundant configuration so that the
storage system can remain operational if a component fails. Adding and replacing
components, along with firmware upgrades, can be conducted while the storage system is
active.
Block configuration
A storage system configured for block-level storage provides the ability to access and
provision raw storage volumes using protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
A block configuration consists of the following:
■Two controllers
■One or more drive trays
■Optional service processor (SVP)
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Unified configuration
A unified configuration includes embedded NAS modules that support file system protocols
such as CIFS and NFS and operate across a block-level setup using iSCSI or FC
connections.
■Two controllers
■Two NAS modules for file operations and storage
■One or more drive trays for block-level storage
■One 1U block service processor server (SVP)
VSP F400 model
The VSP F400 is a highly reliable all-flash system that offers high storage capacity with full
redundancy to better protect data and manage storage operations.
The storage system consists of a 4U enclosure that includes two controllers and two optional
NAS modules to support file operations. Drives are supported using drive trays connected to
the controllers.
Controller Controller chassis Controller model Height
CBLM DW800-CBL DW-F800-CTLM 4U (174.3 mm)
Controller Model number Description
NAS ■DW-F800-NAS
■DW-F800-NASR
Optional component for file
storage configuration. NAS
modules only provide file
support.
Drive tray
Drive tray
model name
Supported
drive type
Number of
drives
supported Height
FMD tray DW-F800-DBF 5.25-inch FMD 12 2U (86.2 mm)
Unified configuration
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Drive tray
Drive tray
model name
Supported
drive type
Number of
drives
supported Height
SFF drive tray ■DW-F800-
DBS (power
supply,
contains
BNST)
■DW-F800-
DBSC
(Silver-rated
power
supply)
■DW-F800-
DBSE
(Platinum-
rated power
supply)
2.5-inch SFF 16 2U (86.2 mm)
High-speed cache memory
The storage system supports 128 GB of high-speed cache memory. The DIMMs are arranged
as 64 GB or 128 GB per controller.
Flash module drives
The VSP F400 storage system supports the listed FMD capacities.
Model number Drive type Drive capacity
DKC-F810I-1R6FN FMD DC2 1.6 TiB
DKC-F810I-3R2FN FMD DC2 3.2 TiB
DKC-F810I-6R4FN FMD DC2 6.4 TiB
DKC-F810I-7R0FP FMD HD 7 TB
DKC-F810I-14RFP FMD HD 14 TB
Solid-state drives
The VSP F400 storage system supports the listed SSD capacities.
Model number Drive type Drive capacity
DKC-F810I-200MEM SSD 200 GB
VSP F400 model
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Model number Drive type Drive capacity
DKC-F810I-400MEM SSD 400 GB
DKC-F810I-480MGM SSD 480 GB
DKC-F810I-1R9MGM SSD 1.9 TB
DKC-F810I-3R8MGM SSD 3.8 TB
DKC-F810I-7R6MGM SSD 7.6 TB
Interface ports
Interface ports for attachment to hosts are provided on the front-end modules. The system
supports up to 16 front-end modules.
Model number Description
Maximum number of ports
supported
DW-F800-2HS10S 10-Gbps iSCSI (Optical)
front-end module
28 (NAS modules not
installed)
12 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-2HS10B 10-Gbps iSCSI (Copper)
front-end module
28 (NAS modules not
installed)
12 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-4HF8 8-Gbps Fibre Channel (4-
port) front-end module
56 (NAS modules not
installed)
24 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-2HF16 16-Gbps Fibre Channel (2-
port) front-end module
28 (NAS modules not
installed)
12 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-4HF32R 32/16-Gbps Fibre Channel
(4-port) front-end module
56 (NAS modules not
installed)
24 (NAS modules installed)
VSP F600 model
The VSP F600 is a highly reliable all-flash system that offers high storage capacity with full
redundancy to better protect data and manage storage operations.
VSP F600 model
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The storage system consists of a 4U enclosure that includes two controllers, two optional
NAS modules to support file operations. The drives are supported using drive trays
connected to the controllers.
Controller Controller chassis Controller model Height
CBLM DW800-CBL DW-F800-CTLM 4U (174.3 mm)
Controller Model number Description
NAS ■DW-F800-NAS
■DW-F800-NASR
Optional component for file
storage configuration. NAS
modules only provide file
support.
Drive tray
Drive tray
model name
Supported
drive type
Number of
drives
supported Height
FMD tray DW-F800-DBF 5.25-inch FMD 12 2U (86.2 mm)
SFF drive tray ■DW-F800-
DBS (power
supply,
contains
BNST)
■DW-F800-
DBSC
(Silver-rated
power
supply)
■DW-F800-
DBSE
(Platinum-
rated power
supply)
2.5-inch SFF 24 2U (86.2 mm)
High-speed cache memory
The storage system supports 256 GB of high-speed cache memory. The DIMMs are arranged
as 64 GB or 128 GB per controller.
Flash module drives
The VSP F600 storage system supports the listed FMD capacities.
VSP F600 model
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Model number Drive type Drive capacity
DKC-F810I-1R6FN FMD DC2 1.6 TiB
DKC-F810I-3R2FN FMD DC2 3.2 TiB
DKC-F810I-6R4FN FMD DC2 6.4 TiB
DKC-F810I-7R0FP FMD HD 7 TB
DKC-F810I-14RFP FMD HD 14 TB
Solid-state drives
The VSP F600 storage system supports the listed SSD capacities.
Model number Drive type Drive capacity
DKC-F810I-1R9MGM SSD 1.9 TB
DKC-F810I-3R8MGM SSD 3.8 TB
DKC-F810I-7R6MGM SSD 7.6 TB
Interface ports
Interface ports for attachment to hosts are provided on the front-end modules. The system
supports up to 16 front-end modules.
Model number Description
Maximum number of ports
supported
DW-F800-2HS10S 10-Gbps iSCSI (Optical)
front-end module
28 (NAS modules not
installed)
12 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-2HS10B 10-Gbps iSCSI (Copper)
front-end module
28 (NAS modules not
installed)
12 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-4HF8 8-Gbps Fibre Channel (4-
port) front-end module
56 (NAS modules not
installed)
24 (NAS modules installed)
DW-F800-2HF16 16-Gbps Fibre Channel (2-
port) front-end module
28 (NAS modules not
installed)
12 (NAS modules installed)
VSP F600 model
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Model number Description
Maximum number of ports
supported
DW-F800-4HF32R 32/16-Gbps Fibre Channel
(4-port) front-end module
56 (NAS modules not
installed)
24 (NAS modules installed)
Features
The features described in the table are included with VSP F400 and VSP F600.
Feature Value
Maximum cache memory supported VSP F400: 128 GB
VSP F600: 256 GB
Maximum number of spare drives 32
Maximum number of RAID groups 16
Maximum volume size 3 TB (4 TB when using
the LDEVs of other
Storage Systems)
Maximum number of volumes per host groups 2,048
Maximum number of host groups per port 255
Maximum number of volumes per port 2,048
Maximum number of volumes per RAID group 2,048
Maximum number of iSCSI hosts connected through a network
switch
255
Maximum number of Fibre Channel devices connected through
a Fibre Channel switch
255
Maximum storage
system capacity
(physical capacity)
Using 7.6 TB SSD VSP F400: 2,904 TB
VSP F600: 4,356 TB
Using 14 TB FMD VSP F400: 2,702 TB
VSP F600: 4,053 TB
Features
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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
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
Maximum number of drives
supported
SFF drive tray 16 384 SSDs
FMD tray 16 192 Hitachi Accelerated Flash (HAF)
flash module drives
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
Maximum number of
drive trays supported
Maximum number of drives
supported
SFF drive tray 24 576 SSDs
FMD tray 24 288 HAF flash module drives
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.
Scalability
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VSP F400 controller Drive trays
Maximum number
of trays
Maximum number
of drives
CBLM FMD 16 192 FMDs (HAF)
4 48 FMDs
FMD 1 8 FMDs + 1 spare
(DC2)
SFF 16 384 SSDs
VSP F600 controller Drive trays
Maximum number
of trays
Maximum number
of drives
CBLM FMD 24 288 FMDs (HAF)
4 48 FMDs
FMD 2 16 FMDs + 1 spare
(DC2)
SFF 24 576 SSDs
Maximum number of mounted drive trays
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Chapter 2: Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600
controller
The Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600 models are equipped with dual controllers for
communicating with a data host.
Each controller includes the following internal components such as a processor, dual in-line
cache memory modules (DIMMs), cache flash memory (CFM), battery, and fans. The
controller has an Ethernet connection for out-of-band management using Hitachi Device
Manager - Storage Navigator. If the data path through one controller fails, all drives remain
available to data hosts using a redundant data path through the other controller. The
controller is equipped with LED indicators for monitoring its operating conditions and notifying
possible component replacement.
CBLM controller
The CBLM controller includes specific functional LEDs located on the front and rear of
controller and power supplies to provide its operating status.
CBLM with front panel bezel
The following table describes the definitions of the CBLM controller front panel bezel LEDs.
Number Item Description
1 POWER LED Green: Storage system is
powered on.
Amber: Storage system is
receiving power.
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